Science Training and Education Awards
This website provides information about science training and education awards made available through FASEB's member societies for students, trainees and science mentors. For more information, or to add information about your society's activities to this page, please contact opa@faseb.org.
Opportunities for:
Science Educators and Mentors
Includes travel support for annual meetings, teacher and mentoring awards, and professional development opportunities
Trainees (K-12 students, undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctorates)
Includes research and travel awards, summer research opportunities, and professional development opportunities
Science Educator and Mentor Awards
Includes travel support for annual meetings, teacher and mentoring awards, and professional development opportunities
American Association of Anatomists (AAA)
American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award
AAI honors the award recipient’s contributions to the profession through outstanding mentoring.
American Physiological Society (APS)
APS Teaching Career Enhancement Award
The APS Teaching Career Enhancement Award is designed to enhance the career potential of regular members. The award can be used to support short-term visits to other schools to consult with experts who can assist with the development project. It can also be used to support attendance at special courses devoted to methodologies appropriate for the educational development project.
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
ASBMB Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education
American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR)
ASBMR William F. Neuman Award
This award recognizes ASBMR member for outstanding and major scientific contributions in the area of bone and mineral research and for contributions to associates and trainees in teaching, research and administration.
ASBMR Early Career Excellence in Teaching Award
This award recognizes an individual in the early stage of his or her career (Assistant or early Associate Professor rank or equivalent level at a non-U.S. institution or in the clinical or private sector) who displays a strong commitment to teaching and learning in the classroom, the clinic and/or research laboratory setting.
American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP)
The American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Gold-Headed Cane Award
TheASIP Award is presented in recognition of long-term contributions to pathology, including meritorious research, outstanding teaching, and general excellence in the field and leadership in pathology.
American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)
The annual Award recognizes the outstanding achievements of an ASCI member in advancing knowledge in a specific field and in mentoring future generations of life-science researchers.
American Society for Nutrition (ASN)
American Nutrition Society Kellogg Prize in International Nutrition Research
Kellogg Prize is given to a member of American Society for Nutrition International Nutrition Council actively engaged in research to benefit populations in non-industrialized countries, as demonstrated through publications in the scientific literature, and actively engaged in training new scientists for international nutrition research.
Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS)
Genetics Society of America (GSA)
Protein Society
Carl Brändén Award
The Carl Brändén Award, sponsored by Rigaku Corporation, is given to an outstanding protein scientist who has also made exceptional contributions in the areas of education and/or service to the science.
The Protein Society Finn Wold Travel Award Program
Finn Wold was one of the founders and early Presidents of The Protein society. He was a very creative individual who was very supportive of students. In 1997, The Protein Society named the student travel awards in his honor.
Society for Developmental Biology (SDB)
SDB Lifetime Achievement Award
The award is given for the individual's excellence in research and for being a superb mentor who has helped train the next generation of exceptional scientists. Typically, the award is given during the third trimester of the recipient's career, to allow sufficient time to assess the impact of his/her contributions.
SDB Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize
This award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to developmental biology education. These contributions will be construed in the broadest context and may include teaching at any level; training of professionals; organizing and administrating programs; integrating developmental biology into our educational system; or disseminating reliable information to professional members, to prospective developmental biologists, to students in other fields, or to the general public.
Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR)
Trainee Awards
Includes research and travel awards, summer research opportunities, and professional development opportunities
K-12
Endocrine Society
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Awards
These awards are presented annually to high school students for their outstanding endocrine-related science projects presented at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair—the world's largest pre-college science exposition.
Undergraduate
American Physiological Society (APS)
The David S. Bruce Awards
The David S. Bruce Awards are to recognize excellence in undergraduate research. They will be made each year at the Experimental Biology meeting to undergraduate students who have submitted a meeting abstract and award application materials to APS.
American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Award (ASBMR)
ASBMR President's Award
The ASBMR President's Award is given to the highest ranking abstract submitted by a student.
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)
ASPET SURF Awards
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow Awards are given to institutions and to individuals to provide a summer research experience in a pharmacology laboratory for undergraduates. Mentors must be members of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics in good standing.
Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
Undergraduate Student Awards
These awards include a certificate, registration for the Annual Meeting, and a stipend to assist with travel expenses.
Endocrine Society
Summer Research Fellowships
The Endocrine Society offers Summer Research Fellowships to encourage promising undergraduate students, medical students and first year graduate school students to pursue careers in endocrinology.
Genetics Society of America (GSA)
The Victoria Finnerty Memorial Fund for Undergraduate Travel Awards
This fund, which honors the memory of Victoria Finnerty, has been established to support travel costs for undergraduates engaged in research to attend the annual GSA Drosophila Research Conference.
Society for Development Biology (SDB)
Society for Development Biology Travel Awards
Every year, a number of travel awards are made available for current student (undergraduate and graduate) and postdoctoral members of Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) who need assistance to offset their travel expenses to SDB annual meetings. The number of awards and the amount for each award will depend on the total number of applications received and available funding. All applicants must be the first and presenting author of an abstract submitted for the annual meeting and in good standing with SDB membership.
Graduate and Postdoctorates
American Association of Anatomists (AAA)
The AAA Short-term Visiting Scholarship Program, launched in 2009, is intended to provide travel expenses to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows or faculty to facilitate visiting a laboratory or participating in a course.
The AAA Postdoctoral Fellowship, established in 2008, offers salary support to AAA members who are postdoctoral fellows working in any aspect of biology relevant to the anatomical sciences. Either the postdoctoral applicant or the host sponsor (or both) must be a permanent resident of the US or Canada, however, fellowships can be used in any country.
The LWW/AAA Scholarship, established in 2007, supports an AAA member who is a graduate student in a mentored project, or a postdoctoral fellow or junior faculty member (rank no higher than assistant professor) who wishes to develop a project that shows promise as a model for improving the quality of teaching and learning in anatomical education.
American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
AAI Trainee Abstract Award
This award provides an award to The American Association of Immunologists Trainee Members (students and postdoctoral fellows) whose first-author abstract submitted to the AAI Annual Meeting is selected for oral presentation in a Block Symposium.
Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF)
ABRF Student/Post-Doc Awards
ABRF will award full conference registration waivers for up to ten students or post docs who present posters at the ABRF meeting. The ABRF Organizing Committee and the ABRF Education Committee will review
applications for these awards and select the awardees.
American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
C.W. Cotterman Award
Each September, the editorial board of the
American Journal of Human Genetics selects two articles that best represent outstanding contributions to the field of genetics. Two awards will be presented annually and a monetary award and a plaque will be presented for the best paper published in the Journal during the previous year on which the first author was either a pre-or post-doctoral trainee or an American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) member.
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)
Graduate Student Best Abstract Awards
Graduate Student Best Abstract Awards are given by ASPET divisions for abstracts submitted by graduate students to the Experimental Biology meeting. Finalists and winners may be asked to present their poster at the Student-Postdoc-Mentor Mixer or at a division session.
Postdoctoral Scientist Awards
Postdoctoral Scientist Awards are given by the ASPET divisions for abstracts submitted by postdoctoral fellows to the Experimental Biology meeting. Finalists and winners may be asked to present their research at the Student-Postdoc-Mentor Mixer or at a division session.
Drug Discovery, Drug Development and Regulatory Affairs Young Investigator Award
The Drug Discovery, Drug Development and Regulatory Affairs Young Investigator Award is given to any young scientist (student, postdoctoral) for best abstract submitted to Experimental Biology.
The International Early Career Physiologist Travel Awards are presented to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty members who work outside the United States. This initiative of the International Physiology Committee is designed to assist with travel expenses that international early career physiologists incur in attending the Experimental Biology Meeting in order to present their work.
American Physiological Society Conference Student Awards
To encourage the participation of young scientists in training, awards are granted for outstanding abstract presentation by a graduate student and/or postdoctoral fellow who present a contributed paper and attend any of the American Physiological Society conferences.
Novel Disease Model Awards
This award recognizes a postdoctoral trainee and a predoctoral student who submit the best abstracts describing a disease model at Experimental Biology.The applicant does not have to be an American Physiological Society member and there are no restrictions on how the award is spent.
Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
Graduate Student Awards
These awards include a certificate, registration for the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, and a stipend to assist with travel expenses. If more than one author/winner is chosen, the stipend part of the award is shared among the winners.
Endocrine Society (ES)
International Endocrine Scholars Program
International Endocrine Scholars Program (IESP) was established by The Endocrine Society in 2003 to promote the career development of young endocrinologists from around the globe.
Medical Student Achievement Awards
Awarded to graduating senior medical school students and osteopathic school students who have shown exceptional ability and interest in endocrinology. This program is designed to encourage students to pursue careers in endocrinology and related fields of medicine and basic science.
Endocrine Trainee Day
Endocrine Trainee Day represents a prestigious opportunity for select graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and clinical fellows to interact with their peers and be inspired by the recognized experts in the endocrine community.
Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS)
Genetics Society of America (GSA)
DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics
In recognition of the critical role DeLill Nasser played for the discipline and for her love of genetics, in 2001, The Genetics Society of America established The DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics, an award for graduate students and postdoctoral trainees, to support travel costs for young geneticists to attend national and international meetings and enroll in laboratory courses.
International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
PhRMA Foundation Awards
The PhRMA Foundation provides fellowships and grants to young scientists pursuing research careers in the discipline of Informatics. The goal of the Informatics Program is to promote the use of informatics in an integrative approach to understanding biological and disease processes. Informatics awards support career development for scientists engaged in cutting-edge research in information technology and experimental validation, thus advancing the integration of molecular and clinical approaches into problems of pharmacological concern.
Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR)
Trainee Research Awards
The Trainee Research Awards recognize the best papers presented at the Annual Meeting by a predoctoral or postdoctoral trainee. The Society anticipates receipt of a grant from EMD Serono Research Institute to fund the awards.
Teratology Society (TS)
Marie Taubeneck Award
This is an award for the best poster presentation by a student at the annual meetings of the Teratology Society (TS) and Neurobehavioral Teratology Society (NBTS).
Two students (graduate students in an accredited degree-granting program or postdoctoral fellows) will be selected based on their platform presentations at the annual Teratology Society meeting to receive an award.
Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Awards
The Teratology Society makes available travel awards in an effort to assist graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in attending the Teratology Society Annual Meetings. Students and Young Investigators who present an abstract are eligible to receive a Travel Award.
This is an award for the best poster presentation by a student or postdoctoral fellow at the annual meetings of the Teratology Society (TS) and Neurobehavioral Teratology Society (NBTS).