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:
Career Development Award
Proposal Deadline: Tuesday, December 01, 2026
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.
Heart Transplantation Research Network
Proposal Deadline: Wednesday, March 10, 2027
View all AHA research program descriptions on the Funding Opportunities page.
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