Each year, The Manton Center will invite and host one or more visiting scientists from prestigious national and international Institutions to visit, teach, and lecture over a several day period. The interests and expertise of Visiting Scientists will be related to the mission and goals of The Manton Center for Orphan Disease research. In brief, The Manton Center has been established to encourage the development of new and innovative research on rare "orphan"
conditions that have hitherto been understudied due to a lack of resources and interest on the
part of the scientific and medical community. The Visiting Scientist Program will support the
travel expenses, honorarium, and planning and meeting expenses for Visiting Scientists to visit The Manton Center and meet with, teach, and learn from, The Manton Center and other Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard faculty and trainees.
Visits typically last one to five days, depending on the interests and availability of the Visiting Scientist and The Manton Center staff. During this time, one major keynote lecture will be scheduled for the Visiting Scientist to present their work of relevance to orphan disease research. This lecture will be publicized throughout the hospital and to the broader Harvard Medical School community and will be open to the general public. In addition, one or more ancillary seminars or teaching conferences may be scheduled in smaller group settings. A schedule of meetings with interested faculty and trainees will be prepared, based in part on stated interests of the visitor. In addition, more intensive visiting time may be made available for the visitor to spend with particular scientists or clinicians, teaching researchers here, and learning and transferring expertise back to their home institution.
The Manton Center Scientists and interested colleagues will nominate potential candidates based on the following criteria:
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