American Heart Association: Career Development Award

About this program

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. Applications are due December 1, 2026. Eligible applicants are early-career clinician-scientists or academic professionals within the early years of their first independent appointment seeking career development support; contact Karineh Petrossian at Karineh.Petrossian@med.usc.edu for institutional assistance.