American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship

The American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship 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. 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. 

In the 2023 submission cycle, the AHA Predoctoral Fellowship provided:

• 1-2 years of support
• $26,353/ year stipend support
• $4,200/ year health insurance support
• $2,000/ year project support, which includes travel, computer, equipment

Other notes:

• An applicant who receives AHA funding, but has an ongoing training grant from another source, may defer the start of the AHA award up to six months to complete the existing fellowship. Prior AHA approval is required.
• AHA allows supplementation from other sources to meet the sponsoring institution’s stipend and benefit levels, however, the awardee may not hold a comparable award (such as another fellowship) as a source of supplementation.
• A mentor may supervise no more than four AHA-funded fellows (predoctoral and/or postdoctoral) and no more than two AHA-supported student fellows (undergraduate and/or medical/graduate students) at any time. 

Proposal deadline was Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 3pm Central Time.