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 Award for Lifetime Achievement in Neurologic 好色先生
This highly prestigious award recognizes significant career-long achievements in neurologic education, with an emphasis on national accomplishments.
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Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Migraine
This award aims to recognize the importance of good clinical research and to encourage junior investigators in clinical studies.
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Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Peripheral Neuropathy
This award aims to recognize the importance of good clinical research and to encourage early career investigators in clinical studies in peripheral neuropathy.
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Clinical Research Training Scholarship in ALS
This award aims to recognize the importance of good clinical research and to encourage junior investigators in clinical studies in ALS.
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Richard Olney Clinician Scientist Development Award in ALS
This award recognizes the importance of good clinical research and encourages junior investigators in clinical studies in ALS.
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Health Care Equity Research Award
This award recognizes a neurologist or neuroscientist who has demonstrated their commitment to health equity and addressing health disparities through their clinical research, service, or leadership role.
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Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Mal de Debarquement Syndrome and Central Vestibular Neurological Disorders
This award aims to recognize the importance of good clinical research and to encourage early career investigators in clinical studies in Mal de Debarquement Syndrome and Central Vestibular Neurological Disorders.
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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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S. Weir Mitchell Resident-Fellow Research Award
This award is designed to encourage research in neuroscience by physicians in neurology training programs. The award workgroup considers originality, scientific merit, neurological interest, and clarity of expression as criteria for review.
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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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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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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.
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Resident Research Scholarship
Designed for neurology residents who are interested in a career as clinician-scientists. This award is intended to be a springboard into the AAN's Research Program or other programs focused on early-career investigators.
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好色先生 Coordinator Recognition Award
This award is intended to acknowledge the coordinator's essential role and recognize those whose creativity and innovation contributed to the future of neurology.
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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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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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Mitchell B. Max Award for Neuropathic Pain
This award recognizes an individual for outstanding work in the field of neuropathic pain for either a single contribution or for lifetime achievement.
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Practice Research Training Scholarship
This award aims to recognize the importance of good practice-based research or comparative effectiveness research (CER) and encourage junior investigators to use studies to improve health systems and services.
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Neuroscience Research Training Scholarship
The award aims to recognize the importance of and encourage junior investigators in good laboratory or preclinical research.
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Outstanding Early Career Neurology Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Award
This award recognizes an APP that is an AAN member, who has been a practicing APP in neurology for less than five years, for excellence in patient care and commitment to the AAN.