AHA Predoctoral Fellowship for Doctors, Nurses and Medical Researchers Funded by the American Heart Association
Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
American Heart Association is offering the 2023 AHA Predoctoral Fellowship in the United States, which aims to enhance the integrated research and clinical training of promising students who are matriculated in pre-doctoral or clinical health professional degree training programs and who intend careers as scientists, physician-scientists or other clinician-scientists, or related careers aimed at improving global cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and brain health.
Benefits
- Annual Stipend of $26,353.
- $4,200 per year for health insurance.
- Project Support of $2,000 per year, in addition to the stipend. No limit on any line item (travel, computer, equipment, etc.).
Eligibility criteria
- Enrolled in a post-baccalaureate Ph.D., M.D., D.O., D.V.M., Pharm.D., D.D.S., Dr.PH., or Ph.D. in nursing, public health, or equivalent clinical health science doctoral student who seeks research training with a sponsor prior to embarking upon a research career.
- A full-time student working towards his/her degree.
- At the time of award activation, the candidate must have completed initial coursework and be at the stage of the program where they can devote full-time effort to research or activities related to the development into an independent researcher or a related career aimed at improving global cardiovascular health.
- The trainee and mentor should collaboratively provide a thoughtfully planned, systematic proposal aimed at clearly answering an investigative question in cardiovascular, cerebrovascular or brain health research. (5-page limit). A fellow must have primary responsibility for the writing and the preparation of the application, understanding the mentor will play a significant part in providing guidance to the applicant.
- An applicant may submit only one AHA Predoctoral Fellowship application per deadline.
About the Association:
The American Heart Association (AHA) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that funds cardiovascular medical research, educates consumers on healthy living and fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke.
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