TO SIC MEMBERS

On behalf of Riccardo Dolcetti, SIC President, Judy E. Garber, AACR President, and Margaret Foti, AARC CEO, the SIC is proud to announce that to create a unique opportunity for Italian young investigators to participate at the most comprehensive and important cancer research meeting, also this year SIC and AACR will support three AACR-SIC Scholar-in-Training Awards.

The SIC and AACR offer these Scholar-in-Training Awards to enhance the education and training of young SIC scientists by providing financial support for their attendance at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012 taking place Saturday, March 31 - Wednesday, April 4, 2012, at the McCormick Place West Chicago, IL. These awards are provided to offset a portion of the registration, travel, accommodation, and subsistence expenses incurred in attending this meeting.

AACR-SIC Scholar-in-Training Awards will be presented to young scientists (under age 35) who submit the most highly rated abstracts relating to cancer research. Abstracts may focus on basic, translational, clinical, or cancer prevention research. It is required that applicants have a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) or have at least 4 years of scientific activities after "Laurea Magistrale".  In addition, all applicants are required to have authorship on three publications with at least one peer-reviewed first author publication. AACR-SIC Awardees must be SIC members; however, they are not required to be AACR members. AACR non-members who receive the AACR-SIC Scholar-in-Training Award will also receive a complimentary one-year AACR membership.

Upon submission of their abstracts, each applicant should email the abstract "control number" along with their full CV including a list of all publications to Deborah L. Crabtree at deborah.crabtree@aacr.org and Michael Beveridge at michael.beveridge@aacr.org.

 The application deadline is Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. US Eastern Time. This deadline has been postponed only for the applicants of these AACR-SIC Scholar-in-Training Awards.  The OASIS abstract submitter for the SIC members has been reopened on Monday, January 30th until February 3.

The abstract submission fee will be waived. Any SIC members who have already submitted abstracts will be reimbursed.  In order to be reimbursed, they will need to email Deborah L Crabtree their abstract control numbers and send their full CV's for consideration.

Any inquiries regarding abstract submission or eligibility can be directed to Deborah L. Crabtree at AACR: deborah.crabtree@aacr.org The AACR-SIC Scholar-in-Training Awards will be announced in publications on the AACR Website and SIC website (www.cancerologia.it).

Abstract submission:

1) SIC members log in to the Annual Meeting 2012  abstract submitter . That is the late breaking abstract submitter, but they can utilize it.

2) Once they have created an abstract, they must finish their submissions by 5:00 PM, Thursday, February 2, 2012, United States Eastern Time..

3) We cannot remove the Sponsor or Payment steps from the submitter at this stage. The SIC authors should complete every step in the process except for these two steps. (They can use the navigation menu on the left-hand side of the submitter screen to skip over these steps.) The steps they must complete are as follows:

 Abstract Title 

 Authors and Disclosures of Financial Relationships 

 Abstract Body

 Abstract Category and Subclass  

 Organ Site/ Clinical Track Information

 Chemical Structure Disclosure 

 Research Type Selection

 Keyword Selection

 4) Once they have completed all of the above steps, they should send an e-mail to deborah.crabtree@aacr.org and  michael.beveridge@aacr.org containing their abstract control number (which appears at the top of each submitter page and looks like this:  12-LB-1234-AACR) and a curriculum vitae.