Program Enrichment

Initiatives that make up Keystone Symposia’s Career Accelerator portfolio foster career-development in the life-science community. These initiatives provide opportunities for rising scientists to engage with the broader research community through unique training, mentorship and career-development programming designed to empower trainees and early-stage researchers to be set up for success in pursuit of their career goals.

The Keystone Symposia Fellows Program is a unique leadership and career-development training program for early-career scientists who are engaged in independent biological or biomedical sciences research.

Along with scholarships and financial aid support, Keystone Symposia hosts a number of roundtable events at our conferences to foster career-development in the life-science community.

Scientific gatherings provide critical exposure to cutting-edge research and help foster a sense of belonging within the scientific community. The Keystone Symposia Early Career Investigator Travel Award (ECITA) program offers up to $1,500 USD to early-career investigators at the assistant professor or government, non-profit, etc., scientist equivalent level to attend our top-tier scientific conferences to support their professional development at this critical career stage. Attendance enables the emerging researcher to:

• establish new collaborations
• gain exposure for their research
• network informally with colleagues
• meet with prospective postdoctoral candidates
• obtain invaluable career-advancement opportunities