Patient Advocate Bursaries

The UK Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Symposium is the UK’s premier breast cancer conference. Following on from the successful second meeting in Birmingham in 2020, we are pleased to invite you to the third symposium on 22nd- 23rd January 2024 at the International Convention Centre, Broad St, Birmingham B1 2EA hosted by Breast Cancer Now. 

The treatment of breast cancer has for many years been dependent on the interaction of professionals from many disciplines. Research into improving our understanding of this complex disease and prospects for improving its prevention and treatment also require interdisciplinary collaboration to make meaningful advances.  Patients are at the heart of this collaboration, and patients are warmly invited to attend this symposium.  

Bursaries are available to breast cancer patients and people affected by breast cancer to attend the third UK Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Symposium. We will also consider applications for funding for travel and accommodation for carers accompanying those attending the conference if you would otherwise be unable to come.  Please contact the Conference Organiser if you would like to apply for this support.   

The bursary will cover:

• reasonable travel expenses for attendance at the symposium
• accommodation at the conference hotel, the Hyatt Regency on Sunday 21st and Monday 22nd January 2024, which is linked to the conference centre
• a welcome introductory event on the afternoon of Sunday 21st January 2024. 

If you are awarded a bursary, the Conference Organiser will arrange complimentary registration for you, and hotel accommodation, if required, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. You will need to arrange travel yourself, and then claim your expenses from Breast Cancer Now upon production of receipts. You should book your travel as soon as you know you have been successful, so that you can obtain the cheapest fare available. The bursary aims to cover travel up to a limit of £150 but we can discuss this on an individual basis; the UKIBCS organisers will consider the level of reimbursement on an individual basis. 

Patients wishing to attend the symposium who do not require accommodation and will not incur any travel costs can still apply for complimentary registration and a place at the welcome event by completing the application form. 

For bursary holders, a welcome session will form part of the UKIBCS. This will begin at 17:00 on Sunday 21st January at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and refreshments/drinks will be provided.  

You will meet other breast cancer patients and be given the opportunity to network and exchange ideas and views.

Deadline for Applications: 10am BST, Wednesday 18th October 2023
Notification of bursary decision: by Wednesday 8th November 2023