American Heart Association Winter Funding Announcements and Deadline Dates
Undergraduate Student Research Program
Midwest USRP | SouthWest USRP | Western States USRP
The purpose of this undergraduate research training program is to encourage promising students from all disciplines, including women and members of minority groups underrepresented in the sciences, to consider research careers while supporting the highest quality scientific investigation broadly related to cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Offered by: Great Rivers Affiliate
Career Stage: Making the decision – undergraduate student classified as junior or senior.
Predoctoral Fellowship
Helps students initiate careers in cardiovascular and stroke research by providing research assistance and training.
Offered by: Founders, Great Rivers, Greater Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, SouthWest, and Western States Affiliates
Career Stage: Gaining credentials – doctoral student
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Helps trainees initiate careers in cardiovascular and stroke research while obtaining significant research results under the supervision of a sponsor or mentor; supports individuals before they are ready for some stage of independent research.
Offered by: Founders, Great Rivers, Greater Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, SouthWest, and Western States Affiliates
Career Stage: Directed step - postdoctoral fellow
Mentored Clinical & Population Research Award (formerly Clinical Research Program)
Encourages early career investigators who have appropriate and supportive mentoring relationships to engage in high quality introductory and pilot clinical studies that will guide future strategies for reducing cardiovascular disease and stroke while fostering new research in clinical and translational science, and encouraging community- and population-based activities.
Offered by: Founders, Great Rivers, Greater Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, SouthWest, and Western States Affiliates
Career Stage: Directed step/first independent step - master's degree. Healthcare professionals with a master's degree or certain doctoral degrees.
Association-wide Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Award
This program provides funding for trainees with outstanding potential for careers as physician-scientists in cardiovascular or stroke research during the crucial period of career development that spans the completion of research training through the early years of the first faculty/staff position.
Offered by: Association-wide Research Program
Career Stage: Directed step - postdoctoral fellow
Scientist Development Grant
Supports highly promising beginning scientists in their progress toward independence by encouraging and adequately funding research projects that can bridge the gap between completion of research training and readiness for successful competition as an independent investigator.
Offered by: Founders, Great Rivers, Greater Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, SouthWest, and Western States Affiliates
Career Stage: First independent step – instructor, assistant professor or other first academic appointment or equivalent
Western States Affiliate Medical Student Research Program
Encourages promising students, including women and members of minority groups underrepresented in the sciences, from all disciplines to consider research careers while supporting the highest quality scientific investigation broadly related to cardiovascular disease and stroke. The research opportunity will allow students to work for 8, 10 or 12 weeks with a faculty/staff member on any project broadly related to cardiovascular disease/function or stroke. The goal is to encourage students to consider a future academic career in this area.
Offered by: Western States Affiliat
Grant-In-Aid
Encourages and adequately funds the most innovative and meritorious research projects from independent investigators.
Offered by: Founders, Greater Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, SouthWest, and Western States Affiliates
Career Stage: First independent step, intermediate level or recognized investigator – instructor, assistant professor or other first academic appointment or equivalent, associate professor or equivalent, professor or equivalent. Applicants are expected to be independent investigators.
Mentor/AHA Mentee Award
This unique program funds mentors to work with AHA early career grantees who are:
- working in new/difficult areas of inquiry or potential for new discovery,
- underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in science, or
- conducting research at NIH AREA-designated institutions.
AHA Programs for Winter 2016 Deadlines
Applications for the Winter 2016 programs listed below will be available in Grants@Heart in mid-November. For strategically focused programs such as CVGPS and SFRN, check the program webpage for additional application information.
Several programs have a broad target audience. You should always refer to the program description for details.
Application Deadlines
Updated:Oct 1,2015
Important: the application deadline for Winter 2016 programs is 5:00 p.m. Central Time on the specified deadline day.
The institutional grants officer is responsible for submitting applications to the AHA. It is recommended that the applicant factor in time to submit the application to the grants officer for them to submit the application to the AHA. Early submission is encouraged.
Founders Affiliate - DEADLINE: January 15, 2016
- Grant-in-Aid
- Mentored Clinical & Population Research Award
- Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Predoctoral Fellowship
- Scientist Development Grant
Great Rivers Affiliate- DEADLINE: January 12, 2016
- Mentored Clinical & Population Research Award
- Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Predoctoral Fellowship
- Scientist Development Grant
Greater Southeast Affiliate - DEADLINE: January 15, 2016
- Grant-in-Aid
- Mentored Clinical & Population Research Award
- Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Predoctoral Fellowship
- Scientist Development Grant
Mid-Atlantic Affiliate - DEADLINE: January 12, 2016
- Grant-in-Aid
- Mentored Clinical & Population Research Award
- Postdoctoral Award
- Predoctoral Award
- Scientist Development Grant
Midwest Affiliate - DEADLINE: January 13, 2016
- Grant-in-Aid
- Mentored Clinical & Population Research Award
- Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Predoctoral Fellowship
- Scientist Development Grant
- Undergraduate Student Research Program**
Association-wide Research Program - DEADLINE: January 13, 2016
- Collaborative Sciences Award***
- Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Award
- Mentor/AHA Mentee Award
- Merit Award
- Strategically Focused Research Network*
SouthWest Affiliate - DEADLINE: January 14, 2016
- Grant-in-Aid
- Mentored Clinical & Population Research Award
- Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Predoctoral Fellowship
- Scientist Development Grant
- Undergraduate Student Research Program**
Western States Affiliate - DEADLINE: January 14, 2016
- Grant-in-Aid
- Mentored Clinical & Population Research Award
- Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Predoctoral Fellowship
- Scientist Development Grant
- Undergraduate Student Research Program**
- Medical Student Research Program**