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Early Career Researchers

IFPA is dedicated to fostering a strong Early Career Researcher (ECR) community and creating opportunities to develop our ECR members. IFPA does this through several ways most notably a dedicated ECR event held at each IFPA conference to encourage ECR collaboration and networking. This is accompanied by ECR seminars on a variety of issues and concepts held during each day of the conference, including things like paper and grant writing workshops, career opportunities, and Women in Science sessions. We have also just introduced a new ECR mentoring program. Finally, we have a variety of awards, both for travel and for ECR conference contributions.

ECR engagement

IFPA has two ECR representatives elected from the ECR members who represent ECRs at the executive meetings as well as engaging with ECRs through personal emails and the ECR Facebook page. The current elected ECR representatives are Dr. Jimena Beltrame, PAA & SLIMP (jbeltrame@fmed.uba.ar) and Dr. Wenting Cao (wenting.cao@uni-jena.de), who would love to hear from you.

ECR Mentoring Program

IFPA has developed an ECR mentoring program to put ECR members in their final years of training in touch with a mentor in an official capacity. This will help develop and support our ECR members in a multitude of areas while creating an inclusive and personal society.

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ECR awards

IFPA financially supports ECR members to attend the international conferences through travel awards such as the YW Loke, Elsevier New Investigator, National Institute of Health New Investigator and Burroughs Wellcome travel awards. ECRs are also eligible for the Trophoblast Research New Investigator Research Award (Poster) and Elsevier Placenta New Investigator Research Award (Oral) at each meeting.

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IFPA is also planning to implement a competitive travel award to provide an opportunity for an ECR member to visit an international laboratory, facilitating collaboration, networking, and providing insight into potential future employment.