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

• Barbara A. Horwitz and John M. Horowitz Outstanding Undergraduate Abstract Awards ($100 and a 2-year complimentary membership with The American Physiological Society) – January 12
  
• Porter Physiology Development Fellowship ($28,300) – January 15
• Dale J. Benos Early Career Professional Service Award ($1,000 + advanced EB registration) – January 24

February

• Undergraduate Summer 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

• CANTROL Environmental Systems Postdoctoral Research Award ($1,000 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – November 14
  
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Postdoctoral Research Award ($500 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – November 14
• Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section Predoctoral Research Award ($500 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – November 14
• CANTROL Environmental Systems Predoctoral Research Award ($500 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – November 14
• Gatorade Sport Science Institute Postdoctoral Research Award ($750 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – November 14
  
• Gatorade Sport Science Institute Predoctoral Research Award ($600 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – November 14
• Neural Control & Autonomic Regulation (NCAR) Experimental Biology Trainee Award ($500 + advanced EB registration reimbursement) – November 14
• The NCARnation Trainee Presentation Award ($250 to two winners) – November 14
• Nike Loren G. Myhre Postdoctoral Research Award ($1,500 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – November 14
• Nike Loren G. Myhre Predoctoral Research Award ($1,500 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – November 14
• Partnership for Clean Competition Anti-doping Postdoctoral Research Award ($2,000 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – November 14
• Partnership for Clean Competition Anti-doping Predoctoral Research Award ($2,000 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – November 14
  
• Respiration Section Trainee Poster Presentation Awards ($100) - November 14
• Respiration Sections The Usha Awards ($500) - November 14
• Translational Research Award (Advance EB Registration and $500 for pre-doctoral or $800 for postdoctoral Award) – November 14
• Cardiovascular Section Outstanding Postdoctoral Trainee Award ($1,000 + more) – November 19
  
• Cardiovascular Section Outstanding Graduate Student Trainee Award ($1,000 + more) – November 19
• Central Nervous System Section Van Harreveld Memorial Award ($500 + reimbursement of the EB advanced registration fee) - November 21
• Graduate Student Ambassador (Travel expense reimbursement to EB for two years: $1,200 maximum each) – November 21
• Martin Frank Diversity Travel Award ($1,800) – November 21 for EB 2021
• Endocrinology & Metabolism Section Research Recognition Award ($500 + EB advanced registration fee reimbursement) – November 22
• Juan Carlos Romero and Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis Section Postdoctoral Research Recognition Award – November 27
• Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis Section Portland Press Predoctoral Research Recognition Award – November 27
• William Galey Professional Skills Training Scholarship Award ($800) - November 27

December

• The Janet and Robert Speth Undergraduate Researcher Award ($500 + advanced EB registration reimbursement) – December 2
• APS Early Career Advocacy Fellowship (up to $1,500) – December 6
• Data Sciences International Physiological-Omics Trainee Research Award ($300 for 1st place, $200 for 2nd place or $100 for 3rd place) - December 10
• Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology Section Scholander Award ($500 + complimentary one-year APS membership + EB advance registration reimbursement) - December 13
• Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology Section Travel Award sponsored by Dr. Dolittle ($500 + EB advanced registration reimbursement) - December 13
• Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology Section Travel Award sponsored by Novo Nordisk Foundation ($500 + EB advanced registration reimbursement) - December 13
• Gastrointestinal & Liver Physiology Section Trainee and Junior Faculty Research Recognition Award and Poster Awards (Monetary honorarium + reimbursement of the EB advanced registration fee + complimentary admission to GI & Liver banquet at EB) – December 15
• Cell & Molecular Physiology Section Robert Gunn Student Awards ($500 + reimbursement of advance registration to Experimental Biology) – December 31
  

Apply Anytime

• APS-sponsored AAAS Mass Media Fellowship ($600 weekly stipend) – Application window October 16, 2018 - January 15, 2019
• STRIDE Summer Research Fellowship Award ($4,000 stipend, $300 grant to research host) – Not currently accepting applications
  
• Local Undergraduate Research Awards in Physiology – Applications accepted on an on-going, year-round basis