NIH: Clarification of K99 – 4 year Limit of Postdoctoral Research Eligibility

Part 2. Section III. Eligibility Information

1. Eligible Applicants

Currently reads:

Eligible Individuals (Program Director/Principal Investigator)

K99 applicants must have no more than 4 years of postdoctoral research experience at the time of the initial or the subsequent resubmission or revision application, and must be in mentored, postdoctoral training positions to be eligible to apply to the K99/R00 program. If an applicant achieves independence (i.e., any faculty or non-mentored research position) before a K99 award is made, neither the K99 award, nor the R00 award, will be issued.

Modified to read:

Eligible Individuals (Program Director/Principal Investigator)

K99 applicants must have no more than 4 years of postdoctoral research experience at the time of the initial or the subsequent resubmission or revision application, and must be in mentored, postdoctoral training positions to be eligible to apply to the K99/R00 program. If an applicant achieves independence (i.e., any faculty or non-mentored research position) before a K99 award is made, neither the K99 award, nor the R00 award, will be issued.

Parental leave or other well-justified leave for pressing personal or family situations of generally less than 12 months duration (e.g., family care responsibilities, disability or illness, active military duty) is not included in the 4-year eligibility limit. In addition, time spent conducting postgraduate clinical training that does not involve research is not considered as part of the 4-year research training eligibility limit. Only time dedicated to research activities would count toward the 4-year limit.

Additional clarifications are provided under Frequently Asked Questions. Potential candidates are encouraged to discuss their individual situation with an NIH Institute or Center Scientific Program Contact before applying.

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

Henry Khachaturian, Ph.D.
Acting NIH Research Training Officer
NIH Office of Extramural Programs
Telephone: 301-451-4225
Email: NIHTrain@mail.nih.gov

– See more at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-15-013.html

2014-15 Medical Imaging Conferences Schedule

2014-15 Medical Imaging Conferences Schedule

Ordered by Deadline Date

Deadline Conference Location Dates Link
Aug 8th, 2014 SPIE Orlando Feb 21st – 26th, 2015 LINK
Nov 10th, 2014 ISBI New York City Apr 16th – 19th, 2015 LINK
Nov 12th, 2014 ISMRM Toronto May 30th – Jun 5th, 2015 LINK
Dec 11th/18th, 2015 IPMI Scotland Jun 28th – Jul 3rd, 2015 LINK
Dec 12th, 2015 SOBP Toronto May 14th – 16th, 2015 LINK
Jan 15th, 2015 OHBM Honolulu Jun 14th – 18th, 2015 LINK
Mar 6th, 2015 MICCAI Munich Oct 5th – 9th, 2015 LINK

Joined BICG @ University of Washington

I’m happy to announce that as of Dec 3, 2013, I’ve joined University of Washington’s Biomedical Image Computing Group as Senior Fellow under the direction of Professor Colin Studholme PhD. I am honored to be part of this amazing lab that has done some inspiring work ever since it was formed at UCSF and now relocated to UW. For more information about the lab, you can take a look at it’s website here: BICG

I hope to wrap up my work on Alzheimers Disease and move on to work on the development of more challenging image analysis techniques with the Neonates / Fetal population that BICG work with. Exciting times!!

It’s official! I’ve got my PhD

December  9, 2013

 

 

Dear Mr. Sinchai Tsao:

 

Congratulations!  The Degree Progress Department is pleased to inform you that your Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering degree has been conferred and posted to your academic transcript at the University of Southern California. ….

I’ve compiled ttk-1.4.0 for Mac OS X Darwin / Mountain Lion. Click the link at the bottom of the page for download.

For more information:

https://gforge.inria.fr/projects/ttk/

The Tensor Toolkit (TTK) is an extension of ITK (www.itk.org) to process diffusion tensor images and perform operations such as tensor estimation, smoothing, fiber tractography or statistical analysis.

ttk-1.4.0-Darwin