Grants

Application for Travel Grants for DDW 2025

FITE will sponsor three 1st Tier Gold Travel Grants and three 2nd Tier Silver Travel Grants for Digestive Disease Week in San Diego (DDW2025).
Winners will be awarded during the “3rd Annual “Ask the Interventional Experts” Hot Topics Debate on Saturday, May 3rd, 2025.

Application:

Please send in your CV, abstract, DDW 2025 presenter notification confirmation & complete the submission form

Grant Submission Criteria:

1. Must be a US citizen
2. Only Phase II, Retrospective studies, Phase III, prospective studies or other outstanding/unique studies that are selected by DDW to be presented as a topic or research forum (in-person oral presentation) are eligible
3. Poster presentations are not eligible.
4. Winners must be a FITE member or enrolled as a FITE member prior to grant awards’ day- May 3rd 2025
5. Currently enrolled in a 4th year training program or begin 4th year fellowship training.
6. Be listed as the presenting author of an abstract accepted for lecture presentation at DDW 2025.
7. Attend DDW2025 & present their abstract in person at the time & date specified in their DDW abstract acceptance notification.
8. Submitting abstracts that relate to interventional and therapeutic gastrointestinal endoscopy.
9. Submitting one abstract for grant consideration

Grant recipients will be selected on the basis of significance of research topic, methodology and contribution to the field of interventional endoscopy. There is no fee to submit an application.