Make an impact!
Your generous donations play a crucial role to subsidize student and postdoctoral registrations such that all interested individuals can attend the Rocky Mountain Virology Conference. By supporting this initiative, you are helping to foster the next generation of virologists. Thank you for making a difference!
Tax-Deductible Contributions
The Rocky Mountain Virology Association, Inc. (aka, Rocky Mountain Virology Club) is a registered nonprofit corporation. As such, we are exempt from Federal Income Tax under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, and charitable contributions to the Association are deductible under section 170 of the Code. We are qualified to receive tax-deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106 or 2522 of the Code.
General Donations to the Conference
(For Trainee Support)
Direct donations by check:
Payable to Rocky Mountain Virology Association, Inc.,
c/o Joel Rovnak, 1308 Bennett Road, Fort Collins, CO, 80521.
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Randall J. Cohrs Awards Fund
We have established the Randall Jay Cohrs Awards Fund in memory of our dear friend and leader, to support awards for the top-scoring student and postdoctoral speakers and poster presenters at the meeting.
Richard A. Bessen Scholarship Fund
We also have the Richard A. Bessen Scholarship Fund in memory of our friend and colleague. These funds support an annual guest speaker in prion biology and attendance by graduate students and postdoctoral trainees in the field. In this way we hope to extend Richard’s contributions into the future and remember the purpose of this endeavor through his example.
About Richard A. Bessen
Richard was an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology. Bessen was a remarkable human being and an outstanding, highly respected scientist with the CSU Prion Research Center. He joined the center’s faculty in spring 2012. The Bessen Laboratory has investigated several aspects of prion diseases, including the molecular basis of prion strain diversity; the role of cranial nerves in prion neuroinvasion and prion exit from mucosal surfaces; the mechanism of prion transport in the nervous system, particularly along axons and transynaptic spread; and the cellular basis of prion-induced endocrinopathies in chronic wasting disease.
Awardees through the years
