Now accepting applications for fall graduate student funding! We have 2 opportunities available: Graduate Student Awards and the new Steve Meshnick Travel Award. Graduate Student Awards support up to $7,500 in evolutionary medicine research. For this cycle, grad students at Duke and NC State are eligible to apply. More details: https://tricem.org/proposals/rfp/ The Steve Meshnick Travel Read more about Fall funding opportunities for grad students[…]

We’re thrilled to announce our Spring 2021 cohort of Graduate Student Award winners. This cycle, we had a fantastic and particularly competitive applicant pool from Duke, NC A&T, NCCU, and NC State. We’re excited to offer support to 9 graduate students studying diverse evolutionary medicine topics ranging from bed bug interference with malaria interventions to Read more about Announcing our Spring 2021 Graduate Student Awardees![…]

Our Spring 2021 TriCEM Funding RFP is now live! We are inviting proposals for Graduate Student Awards from students at Duke, NC A&T, NCCU, and NC State with activities focused on evolutionary medicine. Evolutionary medicine is broadly interpreted to involve research that uses evolutionary and ecological perspectives to understand health and disease in humans, domesticated Read more about Call for Graduate Student Award proposals[…]

We’re thrilled to congratulate two TriCEM Graduate Student Awardees on some fantastic recent achievements. Congratulations to Tess and Brianna! Tess Leuthner: Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Tess Leuthner, a member of our fall 2018 cohort of TriCEM Grads, was recognized with the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring! Tess was one of three students selected Read more about TriCEM Grads recognized as award recipients[…]

It’s hard to believe that we are already on the brink of beginning the fall semester. We know that the fall will look very different for a lot of students and researchers due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but one thing that will not change is TriCEM’s commitment to supporting innovative evolutionary medicine research throughout Read more about Spring 2020 TriCEM Grant Awardees[…]

Our Spring 2020 TriCEM Funding RFP is now live! We are inviting proposals for Seed Grants, Graduate Student Awards, and Working Groups from researchers at Duke, NC State, and UNC-Chapel Hill with activities focused on evolutionary medicine. Evolutionary medicine is broadly interpreted to involve research that uses evolutionary and ecological perspectives to understand health and disease Read more about Now accepting Spring 2020 funding proposals[…]

Congratulations to the Fall 2018 TriCEM Grant Recipients!  These researchers from across our NC Triangle institutions proposed innovative research questions and techniques that further the field of evolutionary medicine.  We thank all those who applied for a grant and encourage future submissions in our Spring 2019 request for proposals (details forthcoming soon). Sally Bornbusch Duke Read more about Congratulations TriCEM Grant Recipients Fall 2018[…]

TriCEM congratulates Jeremy Ash, Ph.D. candidate in Bioinformatics at North Carolina State University. Jeremy won the CINF award for the second year in a row during the American Chemical Society annual meeting. This is the first time a student has won the award twice! Jeremy’s research focuses on protein-ligand interactions, specifically the ERK1 and 2 Read more about Congratulations to Jeremy Ash, American Chemical Society Award Winner[…]

TriCEM is inviting proposals in the following areas:  Seed Grants, Graduate Awards, and Working Groups.  We also have a joint RFP available with the Children’s Health Discovery Initiative.  Proposed activities should focus on evolutionary medicine, broadly interpreted to involve research that uses evolutionary and ecological perspectives to understand health and disease in humans, domesticated animals, Read more about TriCEM Call for Proposals[…]