Trainees

APS is committed to creating an environment where individuals can exchange ideas and be safe, accepted and respected. Please read the APS Honors and Awards Policy.

Trainee awards are geared towards student and postdoctoral-level members. They are listed in alphabetical order by application deadline. Please select a month to see award deadlines for that month. Months without award deadlines do not appear on the list.

Please visit each individual web page for award and application details, as well as eligibility and review criteria.

• January
• February
• November
• December
• Apply Anytime

January

• APS-sponsored AAAS Mass Media Fellowship ($8,000 stipend for the summer) – January 2
• William Galey Professional Skills Training Scholarship Award ($800) – January 2
• Dependent Support Travel Award (up to $500) – January 13
• Barbara A. Horwitz and John M. Horowitz Outstanding Undergraduate Abstract Awards ($100 and a complimentary one-year APS membership) – January 13
• Porter Physiology Development Fellowship ($28,300) – January 15
• Dale J. Benos Early Career Professional Service Award ($1,000 and reimbursement of advance registration to the APS annual meeting) – January 24
• Graduate Student Ambassador (up to $1200 travel reimbursement for APS annual meeting for 2 years) – January 24

February

• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships ($4,000 stipend, $300 grant to research host) – February 1

November

• Postdoctoral Fellowship ($50,000) – Letter of intent due November 15

December

• Early-career Advocacy Fellowship (up to $1,500) – December 10
• Cardiovascular Section Outstanding Postdoctoral Trainee Award ($1,000 and advance registration for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Cardiovascular Section Outstanding Graduate Student Trainee Award ($1,000 and advance registration for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Cardiovascular Section Research Recognition Award ($500, advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting and a complimentary ticket to the section banquet) – December 15
• Cell & Molecular Physiology Section Research Recognition Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Cell & Molecular Physiology Section Robert Gunn Student Awards ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Central Nervous System Section Research Recognition Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Central Nervous System Section Van Harreveld Memorial Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology Section Research Recognition Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology Section Scholander Award ($500, complimentary one-year APS membership and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology Section Travel Award sponsored by Dr. Dolittle ($500, advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting and a complimentary ticket to the section banquet) – December 15
• Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology Section Travel Award sponsored by Novo Nordisk Foundation ($500, advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting and a complimentary ticket to the section banquet) – December 15
• Data Sciences International Physiological Omics Trainee Research Award ($300 for first place, $200 for second place and $100 for third place) – December 15
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section CANTROL Environmental Systems Predoctoral Research Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section CANTROL Environmental Systems Postdoctoral Research Award ($1,000 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Charles (Tip) Tipton Postdoctoral Research Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Charles (Tip) Tipton Predoctoral Research Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Lou Stephenson and Margret (Peg) Kolka Women in Physiology Postdoctoral Research Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Lou Stephenson and Margaret (Peg) Kolka Women in Physiology Predoctoral Research Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Gatorade Sport Science Institute Postdoctoral Research Award ($750 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Gatorade Sport Science Institute Predoctoral Research Award ($600 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Nike Loren G. Myhre Postdoctoral Research Award ($1,500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Nike Loren G. Myhre Predoctoral Research Award ($1,500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Partnership for Clean Competition Anti-doping Postdoctoral Research Award ($2,000 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Partnership for Clean Competition Anti-doping Predoctoral Research Award ($2,000 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Underrepresented Minority Postdoctoral Research Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Underrepresented Minority Predoctoral Research Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Endocrinology & Metabolism Section Research Recognition Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Gastrointestinal & Liver Physiology Section Research Recognition Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Gastrointestinal & Liver Physiology Section Trainee Poster Awards  ($500, advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting and a complimentary ticket for the section banquet) – December 15
• Janet and Robert Speth Undergraduate Researcher Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• NCARnation Trainee Presentation Awards ($250) – December 15
• Neural Control & Autonomic Regulation (NCAR) American Physiology Summit Trainee Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Neural Control & Autonomic Regulation Section Research Recognition Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Renal Section Research Recognition Awards ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Respiration Section Outstanding Trainee Award ($1,000 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Respiration Section Research Recognition Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Respiration Section Trainee Poster Presentation Awards ($100) – December 15
• Respiration Section The Usha Awards ($500) - December 15
• Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis Section and Juan Carlos Romero Postdoctoral Research Recognition Award – December 15
• Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis Section Portland Press Predoctoral Research Recognition Award – ($300, complimentary one year APS membership and an invitation to submit a topic) – December 15
• Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis Section Research Recognition Award ($500 and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 15
• Martin Frank Diversity Travel Award (up to $1500 travel reimbursement) – December 16
• Translational Research Award ($500 for pre-doctoral or $800 for postdoctoral and advance registration reimbursement for the APS annual meeting) – December 16

Apply Anytime

• Local Undergraduate Research Awards in Physiology – Applications accepted on an on-going, year-round basis