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Conferences

Ours is a vibrant research community that highly values the dissemination of science and the fostering of social relationships that are so important to collaborative research. In this vein, several meetings including ICBIC, EuroBIC, AsBIC and LABIC have grown into substantial platforms to serve these needs. All of these conferences are administered directly by an International Organizing Committee (IOC). Despite this organizational arrangement, SBIC has strongly interfaced with the IOCs and supported these gatherings both financially and in spirit. Nonetheless, selection of venue, organizers and the decision to delay/cancel meetings rest with the local organizer and the respective governing IOC. For details on these meetings, follow the following links:

            ICBIC

            EuroBIC

            AsBIC

            LABIC 


Conference Support

Conference Support provided by the Society for Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC)  
[revised Winter 2026]

Application deadlines: March 1 and October 1

Application documents (to be submitted to the SBIC Treasurer)
Cover letter that details

  1. confirmation of SBIC membership of all organizers
  2. international and diversity in general (age, gender, research)
  3. research diversity, multiple aspects of bioinorganic chemistry need to be represented
  4. detailed conference program
  5. adequate female representation for Plenary Lectures and within the program ingeneral
  6. SBIC travel bursaries are to be provided to early career researchers (PhD and postdocs), being SBIC members

SBIC support for BIC conferences (in US$)

ICBIC up to $15,000
Funds may be requested by the organizers in advance of the meeting to allow payment of early expenses (reserving venues, etc.). $7,500 in funds are to be ultimately used to support travel grants for SBIC members or other conference activities for young investigators. [Deficit guarantees are no longer provided]. 
SBIC encourages ICBIC and mini-BIC conferences to forward revenue earned from conferences back to SBIC so that we can more fully fund future conferences.
33% of membership fee of new members recruited through BIC registration may be retained by the organizers.

As/Euro/La-BICs up to $5,000
Organizers are encouraged to offer travel and other types of conference support to young investigators.

Support for other bioinorganic chemistry conferences:
$1,000 for all non-BIC conferences  

Note: PacifiChem and ACS Symposia are not eligible for SBIC support.