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American Heart Association

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  1. 2027 Career Development Award

    The American Heart Association offers the 2027 Career Development Award to support promising healthcare and academic professionals conducting innovative basic, clinical, or population research during the early years of their careers.

    FellowshipHealth

    Deadline
    Amount
    $231,000
  2. American Heart Association: Career Development Award

    American Heart Association’s Career Development Award provides up to $231,000 (project period three years; includes 10% indirect costs) to support highly promising healthcare and academic professionals in the early years of their first professional appointment to perform innovative pilot studies and gain preliminary data and training for an independent research career.

    FellowshipHealth

    Deadline
    Amount
    $231,000
  3. Using Get With the Guidelines® Clinical Registry Data to Address Gaps in Care of Patients with Cardiovascular Disease or Stroke

    The American Heart Association offers one-year grants of up to $50,000, with up to 15 awards anticipated, to support early-career researchers using Get With the Guidelines® registry data to address gaps in cardiovascular disease and stroke care implementation.

    Research ProjectHealth

    Deadline
    Amount
    $50,000
  4. AHA Merit Award

    The American Heart Association’s 2026 Merit Award supports established investigators with exceptional track records in advancing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular research.

    Research ProjectHealth

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $1,000,000
  5. Career Development Award

    The American Heart Association (AHA) offers a $12 million funding opportunity to support innovative applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular/brain health and healthcare delivery.

    Research ProjectHealth

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $12,000,000
  6. Collaborative Sciences Award

    The American Heart Association (AHA) offers the Collaborative Sciences Award to foster interdisciplinary research in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular fields.

    Research ProjectHealth

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    Not listed
  7. Congenital Heart Defect Research Awards

    The American Heart Association and Children’s Heart Foundation jointly fund Congenital Heart Defect Research Awards for research advancing the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of congenital heart defects.

    FellowshipHealth

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    Not listed
  8. Established Investigator Award

    The American Heart Association’s Established Investigator Award supports experienced investigators conducting cardiovascular and related research (including work on sudden cardiac arrest) by providing project funding to advance independent programs of research.

    Research ProjectHealth

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    Not listed
  9. Mentoring Team for the Career Development Award

    The American Heart Association requires Career Development Award applicants to assemble a mentoring team that provides research supervision, career guidance, scholarship oversight, and support for progression toward independence.

    FellowshipHealth

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    Not listed
  10. Professional Heart Daily - PHD Article Basic (no funding opportunity data)

    The American Heart Association is offering grants to support research on the prevalence and treatment of cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic diseases in cancer patients and survivors.

    Research Project

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $150,000
  11. Rural Health Care Outcomes Accelerator

    American Heart Association’s Rural Health Care Outcomes Accelerator is a three-year, nationwide initiative that provides eligible rural hospitals with no-cost access to Get With The Guidelines quality programs for coronary artery disease, heart failure, and stroke, plus AHA quality improvement consultants, rural learning collaboratives, professional education, clinical expert access, and recognition/publication opportunities.

    TrainingHealth

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    Not listed
  12. Tips for New Research Proposals

    The American Heart Association (AHA) offers grants to support research projects focused on Sudden Cardiac Arrest.

    SolicitationCardiology

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $75
  13. Transformational Project Award

    The American Heart Association (AHA) offers the Transformational Project Award to fund research projects in cardiovascular and related areas, with application resources and Q&A addressing topics such as sudden cardiac arrest research, international applicants, and use of generative AI.

    Research ProjectHealth

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    Not listed
  14. U.S. Freelance Science Writers’ Travel Stipend Opportunity

    The American Heart Association offers up to five travel stipends of $2,500 each per selected scientific meeting to U.S. freelance science/health writers who qualify for embargoed access, to defray airfare, ground transportation, meals and hotel.

    TravelHealth

    Deadline
    Not listed
    Amount
    $2,500
2 closed programsDeadline passed before Sep 21, 2026
  1. Closed
    Amount
    $200,000
  2. Closed
    Amount
    $165,000

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