Authors: Fayhaa Doja, Abigail Kappenman, Justin Chen & Mahima Rajesh
Editors: Sneha Polam and Samantha Licciardi
Updated: February 4, 2024
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Medical Student Research Grant
Specialty: Radiology
This grant is open to 1st through 4th years who are working on a research project related to radiological sciences. 10 students will be selected to receive a stipend of $6,000 dollars.
Application open: Opens in October
Deadline: Early February
Apply here: https://www.rsna.org/research/funding-opportunities/research-grants/medical-student%20research-grant
Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation Resident and Medical Student Research Scholarship
Specialty: Emergency Medicine
This grant provides a medical student $2,500 dollars to investigate a topic that is impactful to the present or future state of emergency medicine. The project must be completed in a one year period and the recipient must attend the national conference.
Application open: Early May
Deadline: Early August
Charles S. Houston Grant
Specialty: Wilderness Medicine
This grants $5,000 dollars for medical students to investigate a topic that advances the field of wilderness medicine. A draft to their research committee must be received at least one month before the submission deadline.
Deadline: October
Apply here: https://wms.org/research/grants
Grants for Emerging Researchers/Clinicians Mentorship Program
Specialty: Infectious Disease
This grant offers students $4,000 dollars to pursue research in adult or pediatric infectious diseases. Students are required to be enlisted in either an allopathic or osteopathic school.
Application open: Fall 2023
Apply here: https://idsafoundation.org/g-e-r-m/
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) Research Grant
AACOM’s Grants Program includes awards for medical education research and institutional research, up to $5,000 dollars for a single campus study or small collaborative study within a single institution across multiple programs and up to $10,000 for larger collaborative study across multiple institutions or multiple educational programs .
Application open: Opens in Early November
Deadline: January 31, 2024
Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Research Funding
This grant is open to first and second-year medical students from schools with active AΩA Chapters or Associations. The research should focus on clinical investigation, basic laboratory research, epidemiology, social science/health services research, leadership, or professionalism. The grant awards up to $6,000 dollars.
Application open: Open now
Deadline: January 23, 2024
Sarnoff Fellowship Program
The Sarnoff Fellowship Program offers medical students enrolled in accredited U.S. medical schools the opportunity to spend a year conducting intensive work in a biomedical research facility in the United States. The stipend of $42,000 dollars will be granted.
Application open: Open now
Deadline: January 10, 2024
ASH HONORS (Hematology Opportunities for the Next Generation of Research Scientists) Award
Specialty: Hematology
The ASH HONORS Award contributes to the development of the next generation of hematologists by providing research funding for talented first-, second-, and third-year medical students. Up to $5000 dollars will be granted to support work on a hematology-related research project.
Application open: August 2023
Deadline: February 15, 2024
The American Otology Society
Specialty: Otology
This grant offers $5000 dollars for 3 months to perform research on any topic related to ear disorders. The research can explore topics such as normal functions of the cochlea, labyrinth or central auditory or vestibular systems.
Application open: Open now
Deadline: December 15, 2023
Family Medicine Student Organization Grant Program
Specialty: Family Medicine
The program awards up to $1000 dollars to groups doing innovative work to grow and diversify the family medicine workforce and advanced primary care.
Application open: Open now
Deadline: November 2023 – March 2024
Andrews Sports Medicine and American Sports Medicine Institute Medical Student Research Fellowship
Specialty: Sports Medicine
This is a full-year (May 2024 – April 2025) medical student clinical research fellowship focusing on sports medicine outcomes research and clinical trials (sub-focus in shoulder, elbow, hip, and knee surgical outcomes; rehabilitation and physical activity outcomes).
Application open: Open Early 2024
Deadline: N/A
HIV Vaccine Trials Network Research and Mentor Program (RAMP)
The Research and Mentorship Program (RAMP) provides structured mentorship and project funding for African American/Black, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American/American Indian/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Islander medical students for independent research along with structured mentoring, project and salary funding, training, and professional development activities. The grant awards up to $20,000 dollars or $70,000 dollars based on track. Projects range from 8-12 weeks to 9-12 months.
Application open: Open Now
Deadline: January 24, 2024
American Osteopathic Foundation (AOF) International Medical Outreach Scholarships
This opportunity awards $1,000 each to 5 students who attend Power of a Nickel (PON) global health trips. Recipients must be SOMA members and conduct research related to their trips. The scholarship is awarded in two parts, contingent on research submission within 6 months of trip completion.
Application open: Open Early 2024
Deadline: 10/2023
Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s Student Fellowship Award
Specialty: Gastroenterology
This program offers financial support for students to spend time performing research on topics relevant to Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Crohn’s disease, and Ulcerative Colitis, for a minimum of 10 weeks. The Foundation awards up to $2,500 dollars stipend.
Application open: Open Now
Deadline: November 1, 2023
Apply here: https://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/research/grants-fellowships/student-research-awards
American College of Lifestyle Medicine Trainee Research Scholarship and Grants Program
Specialty: Lifestyle Medicine
The Trainee Research Grants supports original research activities relevant to lifestyle medicine among ACLM Trainees (ACLM members who are undergraduate students, graduate students, medical students, and medical residents). The grant awarded is variable, depending on the track.
Application open: Currently closed, Re-opens in Summer 2023
Deadline: N/A
Medical Research Scholars Program
The Medical Research Scholars Program is a year-long research immersion program for future clinician-scientists that advances health by inspiring careers in biomedical research. The program awards an annual stipend of approximately $54,000 dollars.
Application Opens: October 1, 2023
Deadline: January 5, 2024
Apply here: https://www.cc.nih.gov/training/mrsp
ASTRO Medical Student Fellowship Award
The ASTRO Medical Student Fellowship Award for Underrepresented Populations (formerly the Minority Summer Fellowship Award) introduces medical students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in medicine (URM) to the discipline of radiation oncology early in their medical education. The winners are awarded up to $5,000 dollars. Preference is given to 1st and 2nd year medical students.
Application Opens: December 2023
Deadline: February 2024
American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM) Medical Student Research Grant
Specialty: Microsurgery
The American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery Medical Student Research Grant is intended to fund a research project to be completed during the three summer months between a student’s first and second year in medical school. This grant awards up to $2,500.
Application Opens: Open Now
Deadline: March 1, 2024
Apply here: https://www.microsurg.org/education/awards-and-scholarships/medical-student-research-grant/
Dr. and Mrs. W.C Culp Student Research Grant
Specialty: Radiology
The grant is designed to foster an interest in research by funding a research project conducted by a medical student in an area identified by Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation as important to the advancement of interventional radiology and patient care.
Application Opens: Open Now
Deadline: January 15, 2024
Society of Vascular Surgery Foundation Student Research Fellowship
Specialty: Vascular Surgery
The intent of the award is to further the student’s education and introduce the student to the application of rigorous scientific methods to clinical problems and underlying biologic processes important to patients with vascular disease. The award is $3,000 dollars.
Application Opens: Open Now
Deadline: February 1, 2024
American Osteopathic Foundation (AOF) Rocovich Research Grant
This annual grant of $5,000 acknowledges and supports osteopathic medical students, residents, or physicians engaged in advancing the field through scholarly research and publications related to biomechanical, biomedical, or clinical aspects of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT).
*This grant application is closed for this year, please come back to this link to apply during the next cycle.
Application Opens: Fall 2024
Deadline: November 2024
AOF Burnett Osteopathic Student Researcher Grant
An award of $5,000 is granted bi-annually to an osteopathic medical student who exhibits a strong dedication to osteopathic-oriented research, a commitment to osteopathic principles, an active interest in research related to osteopathic medicine and manipulative treatment, and outstanding academic and research accomplishments.
Application Opens: Fall 2024
Deadline: April 2024
Joan F. Giambalvo Fund for the Advancement of Women
The Joan F. Giambalvo Fund offers scholarships of up to $10,000 to support research on women in the medical field and address gender disparities. The study aims to understand how surgical instruments and ergonomics impact the experiences of female, male, and nonbinary surgeons in the United States, with a focus on instrument fit and ergonomic effects, hypothesizing that female and nonbinary surgeons assigned female sex at birth may face more ergonomic challenges due to poor instrument fit.
*This grant application is closed for this year, please come back to this link to apply during the next cycle.
Application Opens: Fall 2024
Deadline: July 2024
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship
Specialty: Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology
RBP partners with the American Osteopathic Colleges of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AOCOO-NHS) to offer one award to a 1st or 2nd-year student of osteopathic medicine focusing on any topic in vision research within an RPB supported department of ophthalmology. The student will be funded for one year with a $30,000 grant. There are two cycles, one in the fall and one in the spring.
Application Opens: Open now
Spring Deadline: December 15, 2023 (Nomination) || January 10, 2024 (Application)
Fall Deadline: June 15, 2024 (Nomination) || July 1, 2024 (Application)
Apply here: https://www.rpbusa.org/rpb/grants-and-research/grants/grants-for-individuals/medical-student-fellowship/
Citations:
22, Updateds. (2023a, September 22). Joan F. Giambalvo fund for the Advancement of Women. American Medical Association. https://www.ama-assn.org/about/awards/joan-f-giambalvo-fund-advancement-women
AACOM research grants. Default. (n.d.-a). https://www.aacom.org/medical-education/grants-fellowships/aacom-research-grants
American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery Medical Student … (n.d.-a). https://www.microsurg.org/assets/1/6/2020_medical_student_research_grant_application_fill_in2.pdf
AOF Application Portal – American Osteopathic Foundation Scholarships, grants and awards portal. (n.d.). https://aof.smapply.org/prog/aof_application_portal/
Ash honors (hematology opportunities for the Next Generation of Research Scientists) award. Hematology.org. (n.d.). https://www.hematology.org/awards/medical-student/honors-award
Bordignon, K. (n.d.). AOS grant submission instructions. The American Otological Society. https://www.americanotologicalsociety.org/aos-grant-submission-instructions
Carolyn L. Kuckein student research fellowship. Alpha Omega Alpha. (2023, October 20). https://www.alphaomegaalpha.org/programs/carolyn-l-kuckein-student-research-fellowship/
Family Medicine Student Organization grant program. AAFP. (2020, January 30). https://www.aafp.org/students-residents/medical-students/fmig/lead-fmig/find-fmig-funding/family-medicine-student-organization-grant-program.html
Fellowship information – Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation. (n.d.-b). https://www.sarnofffoundation.org/?page=Fellowship_Info
G.E.R.M. program. IDSA Foundation. (n.d.). https://idsafoundation.org/g-e-r-m/
Medical student fellowship award – funding opportunities – american society for radiation oncology (astro) – american society for radiation oncology (Astro). American Society for Radiation Oncology. (n.d.). https://www.astro.org/Patient-Care-and-Research/Research/Funding-Opportunities/ASTRO-Medical-Student-Fellowship-Award
Medical student fellowship. Research to Prevent Blindness. (n.d.-a). https://www.rpbusa.org/rpb/grants-and-research/grants/grants-for-individuals/medical-student-fellowship/
Medical Student Research Fellowship. American Sports Medicine Institute. (2023a, July 13). https://asmi.org/medical-student-research-fellowship/
Medical Student Research grant. RSNA. (n.d.). https://www.rsna.org/research/funding-opportunities/research-grants/medical-student-research-grant
Overview. Overview WMS. (n.d.). https://wms.org/research/grants
Rocovich research grant. American Osteopathic Foundation. (n.d.). https://aof.org/grants/aof-rocovich-research-grant
SAEMF/resident and medical students (Rams) Research grant. Default. (n.d.-b). https://www.saem.org/about-saem/academies-interest-groups-affiliates2/saem-foundation/apply-for-a-grant/what-we-fund/saemf-resident-and-medical-students-(rams)-research-grant
Scholar awards. HVTN. (n.d.). https://www.hvtn.org/scientific-programs/scholar-awards.html
Sir Foundation – allied scientist grant. SIR Foundation – Allied Scientist Grant. (n.d.). https://www.sirfoundation.org/get-funded/medical-student-research-education/dr-mrs-culp-grant/
Student Research Fellowship Awards. Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation. (n.d.). https://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/research/grants-fellowships/student-research-awards
Student research fellowship. Student Research Fellowship | Society for Vascular Surgery. (n.d.). https://vascular.org/svs-foundation/programs-and-awards/student-research-fellowship-0
Trainee research grant. American College of Lifestyle Medicine. (2023, May 23). https://lifestylemedicine.org/project/trainee-research-grant/
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (n.d.). Medical research scholars program. National Institutes of Health. https://www.cc.nih.gov/training/mrsp