Career Development Award
Forecasted
Career Development Award supports early-career surgical faculty with basic laboratory research or rigorous clinical investigation in digestive diseases to help establish their research careers.
Funder: Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $75,000 per year for two years ($150,000 total)
Summary: Supports early-career surgeons establishing research careers through basic laboratory or rigorous clinical investigation in digestive diseases.
Key Information: Prior NIH R01, K08, similar career development awards, or internal K awards (or equivalents) disqualify applicants.
Description
The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) Career Development Award helps early-career surgical faculty establish themselves as investigators in digestive diseases. It supports basic laboratory research or rigorous clinical investigation, linking the proposed work to the applicant’s long-term academic and research career plans.
The program emphasizes protected research time, access to research facilities, and mentoring during and after the award period. Departmental leadership must commit to maintaining the applicant’s academic position and supporting the research environment. SSAT’s Research Committee reviews applications. Recipients also participate in the Society’s scientific community through progress presentations at its Annual Meeting and submission of research abstracts and manuscripts for presentation and publication consideration.
