Faculty Award Opportunities

This popular and highly interactive seminar provides faculty at the assistant professor level with foundational leadership knowledge and skills that will enable them to achieve their career goals and thrive as a successful leader in academic medicine and science.

The seminar will present a foundation for modeling leadership behavior, and participants will learn critical skills and strategies to assist them as they prepare for their next advancement and promotion opportunity. Due to the content focus, applicants must be actively looking to advance to the next stage of their career.

The AAMC Herbert Nickens Faculty Fellowship award recognizes an outstanding early career faculty member who demonstrates leadership potential in addressing inequity in medical education and health care; demonstrated efforts in addressing educational, societal, and health care needs of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States; and is committed to a career in academic medicine.

Monetary Award: $25,000 grant

The Association for Clinical and Translational Sciences Outstanding Trainee Award recognizes outstanding accomplishments of trainees at the predoctoral, postdoctoral and early faculty (K) level. This award recognizes those whose translational research progress will have either immediate impact or potential to impact policy, care or public health in the short term.

The Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Awards (BOC) support early-career scientists embarking on independent research careers who are committed to fighting for the health of all moms and babies.

Monetary Award: $150,000 grant

The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.

Monetary Award: Grants are in the range of $600,000 over the term of the project

The Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides $700,000 awards over five years for physician-scientists who are committed to an academic career, to bridge advanced postdoctoral/fellowship training and the early years of faculty service.

Monetary Award: $700,000 over 5 years

The Macy Faculty Scholars Program, now in its second decade, aims to identify and nurture promising early-career educators in medicine and nursing. The program will help develop the next generation of national leaders in medical and nursing education by identifying outstanding educators, physicians, nurses, and role models—individuals who represent the breadth of diversity seen in learners, patient populations, and health care settings around the country. By providing the Scholars with resources—especially protected time, mentorship, and a professional network of colleagues—the program aims to accelerate Scholars’ careers, to turn their teaching practice into scholarship, and to help them become impactful leaders locally, nationally, and beyond.

Monetary Award: up to $100,000

The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health.

Monetary Award: $300,000 ($75,000/year for 4 years)

The Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research supports assistant professors of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of a cure for cancer.

Monetary Award: $300,000 ($75,000/year for 4 years)

Recognizing that outstanding, young, independent investigators are the source for future advances in the biomedical sciences and of their need for flexible, unrestricted funding to conduct their research, the Vallee Scholars program makes grants of $300,000 – to be spent over a period of four years – to junior faculty carrying out basic biomedical research. Available only to investigators who have been nominated by institutions that have been selected by the Vallee Foundation Board of Directors.

Monetary award: $300,000 over 4 years

The American Association for the Advancement of Science welcomes a member whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished and who has been a continuous member for four years leading up to the year of nomination, may, by virtue of such meritorious contribution, be elected a Fellow by the Council.

• ACTS Distinguished Educator Award
  • Recognizes a clinical and/or translational investigator who has distinguished themself as an educator, mentor and leader, resulting in significant scientific accomplishments by the next generation of clinical and translational researchers.
• ACTS Distinguished Investigator Awards
  • 3 awards will be given for senior investigators (over age 45) whose innovative research or leadership has had a major impact on or through clinical and translational science.
• ACTS Award for Contributing to the Diversity and Inclusiveness of the Translational Workforce
  • This award has been created to recognize individuals who, through their careers of mentoring, policymaking, or team building have contributed to a more inclusive and diverse workforce. Success may be evidenced by a track record of contributing to career development of their own mentees, or to the workforce of their organization.
• ACTS Award for Addressing Health Equity Through Partnership and Innovation Award
  • This award has been established by ACTS to acknowledge the importance of and to further catalyze the growth of research focused on health equity, injustice, and issues of disparity in care, supporting the translation of research discoveries into clinical applications to practice and eventually widespread impact on health.
• Team Science Award

This award has been established by the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) to acknowledge and catalyze the growing importance of interdisciplinary teams to the translation of research discoveries into clinical applications and eventually widespread clinical practice.

Monetary Award: $1,000 honorarium

Election to the Association of American Physicians (AAP) is an honor extended to physicians with outstanding credentials in basic or translational biomedical research and is limited to 70 persons per year.

The American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) is dedicated to the advancement of research that extends our understanding and improves the treatment of diseases of all people, and members are committed to mentoring future generations of physician-scientists of diverse backgrounds and biomedical disciplines.

For the 10th year, the Breakthrough Prize, recognized as the world’s largest science prize, will honor top scientists, handing out three prizes in Life Sciences, one in Fundamental Physics and one in Mathematics.

Monetary Award: $3 Million

First presented in 1992, the James and Sarah Fries Prize for Improving Health recognizes an individual who has made major accomplishments in health improvement and with the general criteria of the greatest good for the greatest number. It is intended for an individual who has done the most to improve health. The $100,000 prize could be awarded to an educator, a scientist, a program inventor, an activist, a public figure, a private citizen, or any other person who has made a significant contribution to the improvement of the public health.

Sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh. Nominees for the Dickson Prize in Medicine should be actively engaged in innovative, paradigm-shifting biomedical research that is worthy of significant and broad attention. This is a prize for someone whose career has been building, who is at an especially productive point currently, and whose research is — or will be — so influential that it deserves major recognition now. The recipient must be a U.S. citizen.

Monetary Award: $50,000

The Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) program is a year-long part-time fellowship for faculty in schools of medicine, dentistry, public health, and pharmacy. The program is dedicated to developing the professional and personal skills required to lead and manage in today’s complex health care environment. 

The Harrington Prize is sponsored by The American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. The Prize honors a physician-scientist who has moved science forward with achievements notable for innovation, creativity, and potential for clinical application.

Monetary Award: $20,000 honorarium

The H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, funded by WARF in recognition of the leadership of the late WARF Trustee President H. I. Romnes, is designed to bridge the gap between the Research Committee’s initial research support for new faculty and the Mid-Career Award for Faculty Research. This award is intended to recognize and support faculty up to SIX years past their first promotion to a tenured position.

Monetary Award: $60,000 over five years

The Kellett Mid-Career award is comparable in competitiveness to the Romnes Faculty Fellowships and the WARF Professorships, but is intended to recognize and support mid-career faculty, seven to twenty years past their first promotion to a tenured position. The Mid-Career award was created to provide needed support and encouragement to faculty at a critical stage of their careers.

Monetary Award: $75,000 over 5 years

The Lasker Awards recognize the contributions of researchers, clinician-scientists, and public servants who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevention of disease.

• Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award: For a fundamental discovery that opens up a new area of biomedical science.
• Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award: For a major advance that improves the lives of many thousands of people.
• Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science: For research accomplishments & scientific statesmanship that engender the deepest feelings of awe and respect.

Monetary Award: $250,000 honorarium

Members are elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive.

The Slesinger Awards for Excellence in Mentoring recognize individuals who provide excellent mentoring for women, trans, or non-binary tenure-track faculty at UW–Madison.

Sponsored by the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Vanderbilt Prize winners are scientists who have made significant contributions to the science of medicine.

Monetary Award: $25,000 honorarium

The WARF Named Professorship program provides recognition for distinguished research contributions of the UW–Madison faculty. The awards are intended to honor those faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research endeavors, but also as a result of their teaching and service activities.

Monetary Award: $100,000

The mission of the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize is to recognize and honor one or more scientists whose scientific research achievements have led to the prevention, cure or treatment of human disease or disorders, and/or whose research constitutes a seminal scientific finding that holds great promise of ultimately changing our understanding of or ability to treat disease.

Monetary Award: $500,000