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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 Deadlines
- David D. Gutterman Trainee Award for Translational Science
- Dependent Support Travel Award for APS Summit
- Dale J. Benos Early Career Professional Service Award
- The Charlie Bates Research Award
February Deadlines
May deadlines
- Dependent Support Travel Award - Comparative Physiology Conference
- Martin Frank Travel Award -Comparative Physiology Conference
December Deadlines
- Arthur C. Guyton Awards for Excellence in Integrative Physiology
- Barbara A. Horwitz and John M. Horowitz Undergraduate Research Awards
- Dean Franklin Young Investigator Award
- Early-career Advocacy Fellowship
- Giles F. Filley Memorial Awards for Excellence in Respiratory Physiology & Medicine
- The International Early-career Physiologist (IECP) Travel Awards
- Martin Frank Travel Award - APS Summit
- Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award
- Translational Research Award
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- Local Undergraduate Research Awards in Physiology – Applications accepted
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