Funder: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Due Dates (Anticipated): April 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to two awards of up to $15,000; research must be completed within one year
Summary: Supports early-career investigators conducting pilot research on learning dysfunction and the effects of psychiatric disorders on learning, cognition, or academic functioning.
Key Information: Applicants must be AACAP members or have membership applications pending and must not have received a previous AACAP Pilot Research Award.
Description
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), through its Elaine Schlosser Lewis Fund, supports pilot research by general psychiatry residents, child and adolescent psychiatry fellows, and early-career faculty. The award aims to encourage careers in child and adolescent psychiatry research by supporting investigators at a critical early stage of development.
Projects may examine psychiatric conditions involving learning dysfunction or how psychiatric disorders affect learning, cognitive development, or academic functioning. The scope includes ADHD, specific learning disorders or challenges, and cognitive functioning in typical development, across development, or in specific mental health conditions. Pre-clinical, epidemiological, and clinical research are eligible. Recipients are encouraged to work with a child and adolescent psychiatric investigator whose expertise matches their research interests.
