Applications are being accepted until Tuesday, February 16, 2021, for the American Heart Association’s Career Development Award. The awards will begin on July 1.

The award supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals, in the early years of one’s first professional appointment, to explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training necessary to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist. The award’s purpose is to develop research skills to enhance an awardee’s chance to obtain and retain a high-quality career position.

The award requires a mentoring team of two to five members who will provide counsel, direction, and scholarship oversight. Mentors should have prior history of successfully mentoring early career investigators to independence, track records of high-quality investigation, academic accomplishment, and should be invested in the career progress of the early career scientist applying for this award.

Who Can Apply to the AHA?

• The AHA funds basic, clinical, behavioral, translational and population research, bioengineering/ biotechnology and public health problems broadly related to fulfilling our mission to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.
• AHA awards are open to the array of academic and health professionals. This includes but is not limited to all academic disciplines (biology, chemistry, mathematics, technology, physics, etc.) and all health-related professions (physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, dentists, physical and occupational therapists, statisticians, nutritionists, etc.).
• AHA strongly encourages applications by women, underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in the sciences, and those who have experienced varied and non-traditional career trajectories.
• Applicants must be AHA Professional Members –- application submission is a member benefit.

Visit the AHA Application Information web page for program details and application instructions.