Travel Grant

Travel Grant Application and Guide 2026

In an effort to forge a diversified MS community within the Asia Pacific Region, the PACTRIMS Travel Grant contributes funds to qualifying individuals’ travel expenses for Congress participation. This is done to encourage participation from healthcare professionals in the Asia Pacific Region, increasing the prominence and importance of research and interest in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in the Region and encourage mutually beneficial interaction among MS healthcare professionals.

A limited number of 25 travel grants each USD1,000, will be made available to young scientists aged 35 or younger (born on or after 1 January 1991) and whose abstracts have been accepted for oral or poster presentations.

Eligibility

Travel grants are only eligible for onsite participants. Selected awardees will receive travel support and/or free registration to the congress. The travel grant amount will be transferred to the presenting author’s bank account after the congress.
Participants from low and low middle-income countries qualify for travel grants. (Source: World Bank 2026 https://data.worldbank.org/). Please also refer to the list below. Citizens of Iran, Syria, Crimea, North Korea and Cuba are not eligible for the Travel Grant. Candidate residents in the host country (Japan) are not eligible for the grant.
Be practicing Healthcare Professionals in neurology and <35 years of age including Specialists, Physicians, Post-Graduate Students, Training Neurologists, Registras, Medical Officers, Pharmacists, Nurses.

4. Have an abstract accepted at the 18th PACTRIMS Congress, 2026.

Instructions for submission

Qualifying individuals must fill out an APPLICATION FORM; download ONLINE and submit in person during the Congress from 19-21 November 2026.

The following items are important and compulsory in your submission:

A photocopy of your passport front page showing your name and nationality.
A declaration from the candidate, written on the official stationery of the department confirming current status of employment, that is additionally counter signed by the Head of Department.
The application form (inclusive of bank account information, and all required fields on the form) must be filled in accurately. Failure to do so could inadvertently result in cancellation of travel funds. The application form is available online for download.
Submission Deadline

Completed applications and accompanying documents must be received by the Secretariat on or before the last day of the Congress, 21 November 2026 by 10.00am Taiwan local time. Late submissions will not be entertained and please adhere strictly to this deadline.

Payment
The grant will be credited to qualifying individuals via telegraphic transfer within 45 days after the end of the PACTRIMS Congress. Please provide complete and accurate bank details or PACTRIMS will deduct bank charges of USD$50 for every unsuccessful attempt.
Please note that after 2 unsuccessful attempts, PACTRIMS will cancel the travel grant.

List of LMIC (source: 2026 World Bank)

Low Income Economies	Lower-Middle Income Economies
Afghanistan	Angola
Burkina Faso	Bangladesh
Burundi	Benin
Central African Republic	Bhutan
Chad	Bolivia
Congo, Dem. Rep.	Cambodia
Eritrea	Cameroon
Gambia, The	Comoros
Guinea-Bissau	Congo, Rep.
Liberia	Côte d’Ivoire
Madagascar	Djibouti
Malawi	Egypt, Arab Rep.
Mali	Eswatini
Mozambique	Ghana
Niger	Guinea
Rwanda	Haiti
Sierra Leone	Honduras
Somalia, Fed. Rep.	India
South Sudan	Jordan
Sudan	Kenya
Togo	Kiribati
Uganda	Kyrgyz Republic
Yemen, Rep.	Lao PDR
	Lebanon
	Lesotho
	Mauritania
	Micronesia, Fed. Sts.
	Morocco
	Myanmar
	Namibia
	Nepal
	Nicaragua
	Nigeria
	Pakistan
	Papua New Guinea
	Philippines
	São Tomé and Príncipe
	Senegal
	Solomon Islands
	Sri Lanka
	Tajikistan
	Tanzania
	Timor-Leste
	Tunisia
	Uzbekistan
	Vanuatu
	Vietnam
	West Bank and Gaza
	Zambia
	Zimbabwe

Travel Grant

Low Income Economies

Lower-Middle Income Economies