Awards and Scholarships
Apply for prestigious AAN awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to the field of neurology. Filter and sort by applicant type, career stage, practice setting, location, and which awards are currently accepting applications to find the award for you. Select the award title to learn more and to apply.
Not sure which award is for you? See previous AAN award winners and learn more about their backgrounds and why they were chosen.
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A. B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award
Excellent teachers deserve recognition for their contributions to improving neurology now and in the future. This award demonstrates respect and appreciation for neurologic teaching.
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QI Innovation Award
The QI Innovation Award recognizes quality improvement (QI) projects designed to improve safety and/or quality in practice. Up to two recipients will be selected each year.
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Neuro-oncology Scientific Award
This award recognizes an individual from any discipline and of any academic rank for a singular scientific achievement that has advanced the field of neuro-oncology.
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Movement Disorders Research Award
This award recognizes an individual for outstanding work in the field of Parkinson's disease or other movement disorders for either a single, outstanding contribution or for lifetime achievement.
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Private Practitioner AAN Service Award
This award is designed to recognize a private practitioner's outstanding service to the Academy.
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Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)
This award aims to recognize the importance of good clinical research and to encourage early career investigators in clinical studies in ALD.
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Global Scholars and Future Ambassadors Scholarship to the Annual Meeting
The Global Scholars and Future Ambassadors Scholarship to the Annual Meeting is a prestigious award given to early career neurologists and neurology trainees outside the US. Awardees will be selected based on their leadership potential and a strong commitment to academic, clinical, or advocacy advan
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Clinician Scientist Development Award in Myasthenia Gravis
This award aims to recognize the importance of good clinical research and to encourage young investigators in clinical studies related to myasthenia gravis.
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Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Neurodisparities
The goal of this scholarship is to reduce neurological health care disparities by fostering research that produces an understanding of how social determinants and bioscience influence brain health.
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H. Richard Tyler Award
This award encourages historical research using the AAN Rare Books Collection at the Bernard Becker Medical Library at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. The award provides up to $1,200 for research expenses.
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Medical Student Diversity Scholarship to the Annual Meeting
This scholarship allows US medical students to attend the AAN Annual Meeting and aims to address systemic barriers limiting access for underrepresented groups in medicine.
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Neuro-oncology Investigator Award
This award recognizes early career investigators who have advanced the field of neuro-oncology.
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Mridha Spirit of Neurology Award
The Mridha Spirit of Neurology Award is a humanitarian award for a neurologist or neuroscientist working in an impoverished community of the world.
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Sleep Science Award
This award is intended to recognize distinguished academic contributions by neurologists to the field of sleep medicine or the contributions of non-neurologists to the interface area of sleep neurology.
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Jeanne C. Mayer Multiple Sclerosis Research Award
This award aims to recognize the importance of good clinical research and to encourage young investigators in clinical studies in multiple sclerosis.
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Clinical Research Training Scholarship in FTD
This award aims to recognize the importance of good clinical research and to encourage early career investigators in FTD.
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Robert Katzman, MD, Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Alzheimer's and Dementia Research
This award aims to recognize the importance of good clinical research and to encourage early-career investigators in clinical studies related to Alzheimer’s and related dementias.
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Neurologist-in-training Clinical Ethics Elective (NITCEE)
This elective provides opportunities to develop the skills necessary to approach ethical problems during your education, research activities, and clinical practice, and prepare you to share what you have learned with your peers and patients.
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Sheila Essey Award: An Award for ALS Research
This award recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions in research in the search for the cause, treatment, prevention, and cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Medical Student Research Scholarship
Designed for up to 15 medical students with limited research experience relevant to clinical or neuroscience fields who have a supporting preceptor and a project with clearly defined goals.