Health/Medical Research

Grants will be awarded to support the following areas of research:

Applications are invited for basic and clinical research in the field of HIV. Areas of research may include but are not listed to: basic, clinical, behavioral, epidemiological, implementation science, and community-based participatory research; management of complications, comorbidities and/or co-infections, e.g., HIV and aging; HIV prevention; and health economics outcomes research.

One award will be granted to an early-career underrepresented minority (URM) investigator who has received their initial faculty appointment and are working to establish an independent vision research program.

Applications are invited for the Dr. David L. Epstein Award which will provide $100,000 to a well-established, senior-level investigator with a documented history of conducting eye and vision research in glaucoma and who has a record of successfully mentoring clinician-scientists to independent academic and research careers and will fund a research project that supports the applicant’s mentee in the applicant’s lab.

Grants will be awarded for proposals that support research beyond current work in bioethics to resolve pressing ethical issues in clinical, biomedical, and public health decision making, policy, and practice and to create a community that enhances future bioethics research by scholars and alumni/ae.

One award of $50,000 will be given to provide early-career research support to junior faculty members of the AAS.  Eligible applicants must be full-time faculty who have not yet attained the rank of Associate Professor. Faculty in any surgical specialty or discipline are eligible. Applicants must be active members of the AAS.

Grants will be awarded to emerging investigators to support research related to issues relevant to acute care physical therapy practice. FPTR defines an “emerging investigator” as one who has not previously acquired a substantive extramural research award as an independent principal investigator.

Grants will be awarded to up to two psychiatrists and up to two neurologists in support of education and/or evaluation projects that promote effective residency/fellowship training or lifelong learning for practicing psychiatrists and neurologists.

Grants will be awarded in support of scientific inquiry and innovation in areas linked to the foundation’s mission that has the potential to uncover solutions that will have a direct impact on Parkinson's motor and non-motor manifestations or disease progression. The 2022 priority area is weight/strength/resistance training and Parkinson’s.

Grants will be awarded to an established investigator in the field of gastric cancer research working to enhance the fundamental understanding of gastric cancer pathobiology or approaches to prevent, treat, or cure gastric cancer.