Travel Award for MacLean Scholars
Travel Award for MacLean Scholars supports neuroscience trainees’ Annual Meeting participation and connection with an award-winning researcher to advance work linking brain function to medical outcomes.
Funder: Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine
Due Dates: November 21, 2025 (2026 awards deadline) | November 19, 2026 (Submission deadline)
Funding Amounts: One complimentary room night at the host hotel per recipient; created to support two neuroscience trainees
Summary: Supports neuroscience trainees attending the SBSM Annual Meeting and pursuing research linking brain function to medical outcomes.
Key Information: Applicants must be first authors of accepted meeting abstracts and SBSM members or applying for membership.
Description
The Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (SBSM) offers this travel award to bring neuroscience trainees to its Annual Meeting and connect them with the recipient of the Paul D. MacLean Award for Outstanding Neuroscience Research in Psychosomatic Medicine. The award was created to support two trainees, with direct assistance for meeting participation rather than a separate research project.
The scientific focus is research advancing Paul MacLean’s legacy by linking direct measures of brain function to medical outcomes, or to mediating variables directly linked to those outcomes. Selection emphasizes outstanding research or research potential. Past recipients have investigated neural responses to social evaluation and pain, inflammation and brain function, and relationships among cardiovascular measures, brain structure, and cognition.
