Award at a Glance
Award amount: First place receives $1,000, plus early registration for the American Physiology Summit. Second and third place receive $500, plus early registration. All finalists receive up to $250 travel reimbursement and admission to the section banquet.
Application deadline: Dec. 9
Questions? Contact: Jun Yu, MD, Chair, Cardiovascular Section Awards Committee
Award Description
The Cardiovascular (CV) Section Outstanding Graduate Student Trainee Award recognizes a graduate student (or equivalent within an academic institution or industry) with potential to make significant contributions to the scientific fields represented by the CV Section. Finalists will present their research at the American Physiology Summit.
Award Criteria
Applicants will be evaluated on their accomplishments in the following areas:
- Quality of the application.
- Performance during an oral presentation of their research at the Summit if selected as a finalist.
Eligibility
Applicants must:
- Be an APS member in good standing with the CV Section as their primary affiliation.
- Be a graduate student or equivalent within an academic institution, industry, government or military.
- Submit an abstract to a CV topic category.
Application Requirements
A complete application must include:
- Confirmation that the applicant’s abstract is submitted to a CV Section topic category.
- A PDF of the abstract submission.
- The abstract number and first author’s name.
- A letter from an advisor, postdoctoral mentor or department chair supporting the applicant.
- A biosketch in the National Institutes of Health Common Form format.
- A document with the applicant’s training plan and an outline of how the plan will address important questions in cardiovascular physiology, service to the CV Section and significant contributions to cardiovascular research.
The CV Section Awards Committee selects up to three finalists to present at the Summit. The award is given to one recipient each year.
Conditions of the Award
Finalist must present an oral presentation at the Summit and attend the CV Section banquet. Finalists are responsible for arranging their travel funding beyond the reimbursement provided as part of the award.
Applicants may apply to as many awards as they are eligible for, however, recipients may only accept one abstract-based award for the Summit.