Funding and Award Opportunities
Advance Your Research
Research funding programs are available throughout the year. And the Professional Councils offer various awards, as well. Find your opportunities below.
Council Awards and Lectures
AHA scientific councils award financial stipends, recognize special presentations and provide travel funding to attend AHA scientific meetings. Each council sponsors awards for its members throughout the year:
Investigator Initiated Research
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Proposal Deadline: Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Ralph L Sacco Scholarships in Brain Health
Pre-Proposal Deadline: Wednesday, February 18, 2026Jointly funded by the American Academy of Neurology and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, with funds from a generous bequest by Dr. Ralph L. Sacco, this program enables early career trainees to undertake a mentored two-year research project targeting various aspects of brain health. Projects for this cycle must focus on prevention, with a clear connection to either neurological or mental/behavioral health.
Transformational Project Award
Pre-Proposal Deadline: Thursday, January 21, 2027Supports highly innovative, high-impact projects that build on work in progress that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate the field of cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular research. Research deemed innovative may be built around an emerging paradigm, approaching an existing problem from a new perspective, or exhibit other uniquely creative qualities.
Established Investigator Award
Proposal Deadline: TBDSupports established investigators in rapid career growth phase, with records of accomplishments and showing extraordinary promise. Candidates will have a demonstrated commitment to cardiovascular or cerebrovascular science disciplines that support the AHA’s mission, as indicated by funding and publication history and scientific accomplishments. Candidates should propose an innovative/novel research direction that challenges existing paradigms and employs novel concepts, approaches, or technologies.
Collaborative Sciences Award
Proposal Deadline: TBDFosters innovative collaborative approaches to research projects that propose novel pairings of investigators from at least two broadly disparate disciplines. The proposal must focus on the collaborative relationship, such that the scientific objectives could not be achieved without the efforts of at least two co-principal investigators and their respective disciplines.
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Proposal Deadline: TBD
AHA Registry Research
Test Award 0210
Proposal Deadline: Tuesday, February 10, 2026
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Proposal Deadline: TBD
Data Science Grants
Test Award 0210
Proposal Deadline: Tuesday, February 10, 2026
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Proposal Deadline: TBD
Topic Focused Funding
Test Award 0210
Proposal Deadline: Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Heart Transplantation Research Network
Proposal Deadline: Wednesday, March 10, 2027
Test Award TBD
Proposal Deadline: TBD
View all AHA research program descriptions on the Funding Opportunities page.
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