Last Update: September 2009  

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The following programs are not available for this deadline: National Established Investigator Award, National Clinical Research Program, Great Rivers Affiliate Grant-in-Aid, and Greater Southeast Beginning Grant-in-Aid.

Predoctoral Fellowship
Helps students initiate careers in cardiovascular or stroke research by providing research assistance and training.
Offered by:   Founders Affiliate, Great Rivers Affiliate, Greater Southeast Affiliate, Mid-Atlantic Affiliate, Midwest Affiliate, Pacific Mountain Affiliate, South Central Affiliate, Western States Affiliate

Clinical Research Program
Encourages early career investigators who have appropriate and supportive mentoring relationships to engage in high quality introductory and pilot clinical studies that will guide future strategies for reducing cardiovascular disease and stroke while fostering new research in clinical and translational science, and encourages community- and population-based activities.  This grant is not to fund basic science or to support senior researchers, but encourages mentoring of early career investigators.
Offered by:   Founders Affiliate, Great Rivers Affiliate, Greater Southeast Affiliate, Mid-Atlantic Affiliate, Midwest Affiliate, Pacific Mountain Affiliate, Western States Affiliate

Postdoctoral Fellowship
Helps a trainee initiate a career in cardiovascular research while obtaining significant research results.
Offered by:   Founders Affiliate, Great Rivers Affiliate, Greater Southeast Affiliate, Mid-Atlantic Affiliate, Midwest Affiliate, Pacific Mountain Affiliate, South Central Affiliate, Western States Affiliate

See also the  American Heart Association-Pharmaceutical Roundtable Outcomes Research Centers Postdoctoral Fellowship and the  AHA/Pulmonary Hypertension Association Fellowship Award.

Health Sciences Fellowship
To provide opportunities for health science students to work for ten consecutive weeks with a faculty/staff member on any project related to the mission of the American Heart Association. The goal is to encourage students to consider a future academic career in this area.
Offered by:   Greater Southeast Affiliate

Undergraduate Student Research Fellowship
Encourages promising students from all disciplines, including women and members of minority groups underrepresented in the sciences, to consider research careers while supporting the highest quality scientific investigation broadly related to cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Offered by:   Great Rivers Affiliate, Midwest Affiliate

Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Award
Provides funding for trainees with outstanding potential for careers as physician-scientists in cardiovascular or stroke research during the crucial career development from the completion of research training through the early years of the first faculty/staff position.
Offered by:   National

Innovative Research Grant
To support highly innovative, high-risk, high-reward research that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate the field of cardiovascular and stroke research.
Offered by:  National

Beginning Grant-In-Aid
Promotes the independent status of promising beginning scientists.  
Offered by:   Great Rivers Affiliate, Mid-Atlantic Affiliate, Pacific Mountain Affiliate, South Central Affiliate, Western States Affiliate

Scientist Development Grant
Supports highly promising beginning scientists in their progress toward independence by encouraging and adequately funding research projects that can bridge the gap between completion of research training and readiness for successful competition as an independent investigator.
Offered by:   Founders Affiliate, Midwest Affiliate, National

Grant-In-Aid
Encourages and adequately funds the most innovative and meritorious research projects from independent investigators. 
Offered by:   Founders Affiliate, Greater Southeast Affiliate, Mid-Atlantic Affiliate, Midwest Affiliate, Pacific Mountain Affiliate, South Central Affiliate, Western States Affiliate

American Heart Association-Pharmaceutical Roundtable Outcomes Research Centers Postdoctoral Fellowship. More

AHA/Pulmonary Hypertension Association Fellowship Award
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