Description

The Histochemical Society’s Cornerstone Grants encourage early-career clinicians and scientists to develop an interest in histochemistry and histochemical-based research techniques. The program supports graduate medical trainees, graduate students, and combined-degree students conducting research involving immunohistochemistry, histochemical techniques, in situ hybridization, or related methods. Basic, applied, translational, and clinical research proposals are eligible.

The program emphasizes effective and correct use of these techniques and their necessity to completing the proposed research. Reviewers also consider the significance of the research question and whether the laboratory environment, equipment, institutional support, and mentoring make successful completion likely. Recipients conduct approximately one year of research and disseminate their findings through a scientific manuscript report and a conference abstract.