Trainees

Please read the APS Honors and Awards Policy. 

Awards 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.

• January
• February
• April
• July
• August
• November
• December
• Apply Anytime

January

• CANTROL Environmental Systems Predoctoral Research Award ($500 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – January 7
• CANTROL Environmental Systems Postdoctoral Research Award ($1,000 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – January 7
• Cardiovascular Section Outstanding Postdoctoral Trainee Award ($1,000 + more) – January 7
• Cardiovascular Section Outstanding Graduate Student Trainee Award ($1,000 + more) – January 7
• Central Nervous System Section Van Harreveld Memorial Award ($500 and reimbursement of the EB advanced registration fee) - January 7 
• Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology Section Scholander Award ($500 + one-year APS membership, and EB advance registration reimbursement) - January 7 (This award is not being offered for EB 2021)
• Data Sciences International Physiological-Omics Trainee Research Award ($300 for 1st place, $200 for 2nd place or $100 for 3rd place) - January 7
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Postdoctoral Research Award ($500 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – January 7
  
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Predoctoral Research Award ($500 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – January 7
• Gastrointestinal & Liver Physiology Section Trainee Poster Awards  ($500 + reimbursement of the EB advanced registration fee) – January 7
  
• Gatorade Sport Science Institute Postdoctoral Research Award ($750 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – January 7
• Gatorade Sport Science Institute Predoctoral Research Award ($600 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – January 7
• The Janet and Robert Speth Undergraduate Researcher Award ($500 + advanced EB registration reimbursement) – January 7
• Juan Carlos Romero and Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis Section Postdoctoral Research Recognition Award – January 7
• Neural Control & Autonomic Regulation (NCAR) Experimental Biology Trainee Award ($500 + advanced EB registration reimbursement) – January 7
• The NCARnation Trainee Presentation Award ($250 to two winners) – January 7
• Nike Loren G. Myhre Postdoctoral Research Award ($1,500 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – January 7
• Nike Loren G. Myhre Predoctoral Research Award ($1,500 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – January 7
• Partnership for Clean Competition Anti-doping Postdoctoral Research Award ($2,000 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – January 7
• Partnership for Clean Competition Anti-doping Predoctoral Research Award ($2,000 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – January 7 
• Respiration Section Trainee Poster Presentation Awards ($100) - January 7
  
• Respiration Sections The Usha Awards ($500) - January 7
• Underrepresented Minority Postdoctoral Research Award ($500 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – January 7
• Underrepresented Minority Predoctoral Research Award ($500 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – January 7
  
• Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis Section Portland Press Predoctoral Research Recognition Award – January 7
• Women in Physiology Postdoctoral Research Award ($500 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – January 7
• Women in Physiology Predoctoral Research Award ($500 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – January 7
• Barbara A. Horwitz and John M. Horowitz Outstanding Undergraduate Abstract Awards ($100 and a 2-year complimentary membership with The American Physiological Society) – January 14
• Graduate Student Ambassador (Advanced EB registration reimbursement) – January 14
• Martin Frank Diversity Travel Award (Advance registration to EB) – January 14 for EB 2021
• Translational Research Award (Advance EB Registration and $500 for pre-doctoral or $800 for postdoctoral Award) – January 14
• Porter Physiology Development Fellowship ($28,300) – January 15
• Dale J. Benos Early Career Professional Service Award ($1,000 + advanced EB registration) – January 24
• Dependent Support Travel Award (up to $500) - January 29
• Cell & Molecular Physiology Section Robert Gunn Student Awards ($500 + reimbursement of advance registration to Experimental Biology) – January 31

February

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

April

• Dependent Support Travel Award (up to $500) - April 10
• Martin Frank Diversity Travel Award (up to $1,800) – April 10 for the Institute on Teaching and Learning and the Heme Oxygenase and Related Enzymes conferences
  
• Postdoctoral Fellowship ($50,000) – Letter of intent due April 15
  

July

• Teaching Experiences for Bioscience Educators (TEBioED) Fellowship Program ($750) – July 15

August

• Martin Frank Diversity Travel Award ($1,800) – August 3 for the Integrative Physiology of Exercise conference

November

• Visual Career Abstract Award ($25 Amazon Gift Card)  – Deadline extended to January 6

December

• APS Early Career Advocacy Fellowship (up to $1,500) – December 18
• William Galey Professional Skills Training Scholarship Award (Award amount will cover registration cost for online course) - December 11

Apply Anytime

• APS-sponsored AAAS Mass Media Fellowship ($600 weekly stipend) – Application window October 1, 2020 - January 1, 2021
• Local Undergraduate Research Awards in Physiology – Applications accepted on an on-going, year-round basis