Funder: American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Travel scholarship covering Foundation-coordinated travel and lodging for the in-person forum
Summary: Career-development training helps early-career sleep and circadian researchers build mentorship relationships, refine research ideas, and develop grant proposals.
Key Information: Applicants must be at U.S. institutions and cannot have received federal career-development or independent research funding.
Description
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation’s Young Investigators Research Forum supports promising early-career investigators preparing for academic careers in sleep and circadian research. The program combines mentorship and grantsmanship training with opportunities to refine research ideas and interact with established investigators and scientific and program officers from funding agencies.
The forum spans basic, translational, clinical, and population sleep and circadian science. Through a virtual kick-off and an in-person meeting, participants learn about research funding policies and mechanisms, gain insight into grant peer review, develop specific aims for a grant proposal, and explore strategies for building collaborations and mentorship relationships. Travel scholarships support participation in the in-person forum.
