External Award Opportunities

Explore this curated list of external recognitions. For more details, such as current deadlines or requirements, please visit the organization's website.

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

Menorah Park

  • The Dr. Arnold L. Heller Memorial Award

Heritage Medal

Crain's Cleveland Business

  • Crains 20 in their 20
  • Crains 40 under 40
  • Crains 8 over 80
  • Crains Healthcare Heroes
  • Crains Women of Note 

Dan David Foundation

Harrington Discovery Institute

Robarts Research Institute

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

The Japan Prize Foundation

Harris County Medical Society (HCMS)

Keio University Medical Science Fund

Lasker Foundation 

  • Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
  • Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
  • Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science
  • Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award

L’Oréal Group

Macy Foundation

Drexel University College of Medicine

Mt. Sinai Health Foundation

The Passano Foundation

Rita Allen Foundation

The Clinical Research Forum

Indiana University School of Medicine

The Wolf Foundation

YWCA Greater Cleveland

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

Association of American Physicians

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

American Association for the Advancement of Science  

Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Harvard Medical School

The Wolf Foundation

American Association for The. Advancement of Science

University of Pittsburgh

American Dairy Science Association

  • Award of Honor
  • American Feed Industry Association Award
  • Cargill Animal Nutrition Young Scientist Award
  • J. L. Lush Award in Animal Breeding
  • Merial Dairy Management Research Award
  • Pfizer Animal Health

American Society of Animal Science

  • American Feed Industry Association Award in Nonruminant Nutrition Research
  • American Feed Industry Association Award in Ruminant Nutrition Research
  • Rockefeller Prentice Memorial Award on Animal Breeding and Genetics
  • Animal Growth and Development Award
  • Animal Management Award
  • Animal Physiology and Endocrinology Award
  • Corbin Companion Animal Biology Award
  • Meats Research Award

American Society of Mammalogists

  • C. Hart Merriam Award for Outstanding Research Contributions to the Science of Mammalogy

American Ornithologists' Union

  • William Brewster Memorial Award
  • Elliott Coues Award
  • Ned K. Johnson Young Investigator Award

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

  • Robert H. Gibbs Jr. award
  • Fitch award for Excellence in Herpetology
  • Robert K. Johnson award

Cooper Ornithological Society

  • Katma Award
  • Loye and Alden Miller Award
  • Harry R. Painton Award

Poultry Science Association

  • American Egg Board Research Award
  • American Feed Industry Association Poultry Nutrition Research Award
  • Embrex Fundamental Science Award
  • Frank Perdue Live Poultry Food Safety Award
  • Hy-Line International Research Award
  • Maple Leaf Farms Duck Research Award
  • Merck Award for Achievement in Poultry Science
  • National Chicken Council Broiler Research Award
  • National Turkey Federation Research Award
  • Poultry Science Early Achievement Awards
  • Poultry Welfare Research Award

The Wildlife Society

  • Jim McDonough Award
  • TWS Wildlife Publication Awards
  • Aldo Leopold Memorial Award

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  • ASBMB-Merck Award 
  • ASBMB-Amgen Award
  • Avanti Award in Lipids 
  • ASBMB/Schering-Plough Research Institute Award 
  • Herbert Tabor/Journal of Biological Chemistry Lectureship 
  • William C. Rose Award 
  • Herbert A. Sober Lectureship 
  • Fritz Lipmann Lectureship 

Biophysical Society

  • Anatrace Membrane Protein Award
  • Avanti Award in Lipids
  • Fellow of the Biophysical Society
  • Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award
  • Michael and Kate Barany Award for Young Investigators
  • U. S. Genomics Award for Outstanding Investigator in the field of Single Molecule Biology
  • Bioenergetics Young Investigator Award
  • Biological Fluorescence Gregario Weber Award for Excellence in Fluorescence Theory and Applications
  • Exocytosis/Endocytosis Sir Bernard Katz Award for Excellence in Research in Exocytosis and Endocytosis
  • Membrane Biophysics K. S. Cole Award
  • Founders Award

Columbia University

  • The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry

American Institute of Biological Sciences

  • AIBS Distinguished Scientist Award
  • AIBS President's Citation Award

Columbia University

  • The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry

Gerontological Society of America

  • Geron Corporation-Samuel Goldstein Distinguished Publication Award
  • Nathan Shock New Investigator Award

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators

National Academy of Sciences

  • Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics
  • Award in Molecular Biology

Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

  • Best Paper Award
  • Young Investigator Awards

Society of Systematic Biologists

  • President's Award

Society for Mathematical Biology

  • Akira Okubo Prize

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

University of Pittsburgh

The Hartwell Foundation

Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH)

Columbia University

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

  • Mechthild Esser Nemmers Prize in Medical Science

The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Merkin Prize

Takeda and The New York Academy of Sciences

Albany Medical College

David Geffen School Of Medicine

MetLife Foundation

NIH-National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Gairdner Foundation

The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

American Society for Microbiology

  • Promega Biotechnology Research Award

NIH-National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

National Foundation for Cancer Research

American Association of Anatomists

  • R. R. Bensley Award in Cell Biology
  • Henry Gray Award/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Scientific Achievement Award
  • H. W. Mossman Developmental Biologist Award
  • AAA Young Anatomist Publication Award
  • C. J. Herrick Award in Neuroanatomy

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • The Amory Prize

American Society for Cell Biology 

  • E.B. Wilson Medal
  • WICB Junior Award 
  • WICB Senior Award 
  • E.E. Just Lecture 
  • MAC Poster Award 
  • MBC Paper of the Year 
  • Merton Bernfield Memorial Award 
  • Early Career Life Scientist Award

Society for In Vitro Biology

  • Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Senior Investigator Award
  • President's Award
  • Young Scientist Award

The Welch Foundation

European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology (EFMC)

 

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

  • AAP Ranney Award

Ecological Society of America

  • Robert H. MacArthur Award
  • Eminent Ecologist Award
  • George Mercer Award
  • Sustainability Science Award
  • W. S. Cooper Award

Society for the Study of Evolution

  • Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize

National Academy of Sciences

  • Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal 
  • Walcott Medal, Charles Doolittle 

The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

Entomological Society of America

  • Founders' Memorial Award
  • Fellow
  • Distinguished Achievement Award in Horticultural Entomology
  • Recognition Award in Insect Physiology, Biochemistry & Toxicology
  • Entomological Foundation Award for Excellence in Integrated Pest Management
  • Entomological Foundation Recognition Award in Urban Entomology
  • Entomological Foundation Thomas Say Award
  • Recognition Award in Entomology

The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine

American Dairy Science Association

  • DSM Food Specialties Award

American Oil Chemists' Society

  • Food Structure and Functionality Division Achievement Award

Institute of Food Technologists

  • Nicholas Appert Award
  • Babcock-Hart Award
  • Samuel Cate Prescott Award
  • Bor S. Luh International Award
  • Stephen S. Chang Award for Lipid or Flavor Science
  • Research and Development Award
  • Marcel Loncin Research Prize
  • Bernard L. Oser Food Ingredient Safety Award

The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research

American Society for Microbiology

  • Abbott Laboratories Award in Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

  • Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases
  • Clinical Scientist Awards in Translational Research

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

 

 

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

American Society for Microbiology

  • Eli Lilly and Company Research Award
  • Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Proctor & Gamble Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • sanofi-aventis U. S. Award
  • USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award
  • BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology
  • Dade Behring MicroScan Young Investigator Award
  • Scherago-Rubin Award
  • ICAAC Young Investigator Awards
  • Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial Awards

National Academy of Sciences

  • Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology

American Philosophical Society

  • Karl Spencer Lashley Award

National Academy of Sciences

  • Award in Neurosciences

Society for Neuroscience

  • Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience
  • Jacob P. Waletzky Memorial Award for Innovative Research in Drug Addiction and Alcoholism 
  • Committee on Women in Neuroscience (C-WIN) Achievement Awards
  • Peter Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize
  • Peter Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience
  • Young Investigator Award
  • Mika Saltpeter Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience

The Kavli Prize

 

Eppendorf Corporate

 

Warren Alpert Foundation

Gerontological Society of America

  • Doris Schwaartz Nursing Research Award

American Dietetic Association

  • Edna and Robert Langholz International Nutrition Award
  • Mary P. Huddleson Memorial Award
  • Elaine Monsen Award
  • Ross Award in Women's Health
  • Margaret Dullea Simko Award for Excellence at a Clinical Poster Session

American Society for Nutrition

  • Mead Johnson Award
  • Osborne and Mendel Award
  • ASN Fellow
  • Bio-Serv Award 
  • Centrum Center for Nutrition Science Award
  • Robert H. Herman Memorial Award
  • Kellogg Prize in International Nutrition Research
  • Norman Kretchmer Memorial Award 
  • David Kritchevsky Outstanding Nutrition Career Award 
  • E.V. McCollum Award
  • Nutrition Science Journalism Award
  • Physician Nutrition Specialist Award
  • Peter J. Reeds Memorial Young Investigator Award
  • E.L.R. Stokstad Award
  • Milton L. Sunde Award
  • Vernon R. Young International Award for Amino Acid Research 

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP)

American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

  • Volwiler Research Achievement Award

American Pharmacists Association

  • Ebert Prize
  • Research Achievement Award in the Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Takeru Higuchi Research Prize

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

  • John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology
  • ASPET-Astellas Awards in Translational Pharamcology
  • Pharmacia -- ASPET Award for Experimental Therapeutics
  • Benedict R. Lucchesi Distinguished Lectureship in Cardiac Pharmacology
  • ASPET Division for drug Metabolism Early Career Achievement Award
  • Epilepsy Research Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Pharmacology of Antiepileptic Drugs
  • Torald Sollmann Award in Pharmacology
  • P. B. Dews Award for Research in Behavioral Pharmacology
  • Goodman and Gilman Award in Receptor Pharmacology
  • Bernard B. Brodie Award in Drug Metabolism
  • Paul M. Vanhoutte Distinguished Lectureship in Vascular Pharmacology
  • Drug Discovery, Drug Development & Regulatory Affairs Young Investigator Award
  • Julius Axelrod Award

National Academy of Sciences

  • NAS Award for Environmental Quality

Ochsner Health

  • The Alton Ochsner Award Relating Smoking and Disease

American Physiological Society 

  • Walter B. Cannon Award Lectureship
  • Arthur C. Guyton Awards for Excellence in Integrative Physiology
  • Distinguished Lectureship Awards
  • Giles F. Filley Memorial Awards for Excellence in Respiratory Physiology and Medicine
  • Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award
  • Lazaro J. Mandel Young Investigator Award
  • Bowditch Award Lectrureship
  • G. Edgar Folk Senior Physiologists Award

American Physiological Society - Section Awards

Cardiovascular:

  • Carl J. Wiggers Award
  • New Investigator Award
  • Research Recognition Awards
  • Young Investigator Award Sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • Clinical Science Young Investigator Award Sponsored by Portland Press
  • Berne Distinguished Lectureship

Cell and Molecular Physiology:

  • New Investigator Award
  • Research Recognition Awards

Central Nervous System:

  • New Investigator Award
  • Research Recognition Award

Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology:

  • New Investigator Award
  • Research Recognition Award
  • Scholander Award

Endocrinology and Metabolism:

  • New Investigator Award
  • Virendra B. Mahesh Award of Excellence in Endocrinology
  • Mead Johnson Research Award in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Environmental and Exercise Physiology:

  • New Investigator Award
  • Honor Award
  • Recognition Award for Beginning Investigators
  • Gatorade Beginning Investigator Award
  • Military Physiology Award for Beginning Investigators
  • Gravitational Physiology Award for Beginning Investigators
  • Edward F. Adolph Distinguished Lectureship

Epithelial Transport Group:

  • Young Investigator Award

Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology:

  • APS Horace W. Davenport Distinguished Lectureship
  • Takeda Distinguished Research Award
  • New Investigator Award
  • Takeda Research Recognition Awards

Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation:

  • New Investigator Award
  • Research Recognition Award
  • Michael J. Brody Young Investigator Award

Respiration:

  • New Investigator Award
  • Research Recognition Award

Renal:

  • Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology
  • Young Investigator Award
  • New Investigator Award
  • Research Recognition Award
  • Carl W. Gottschalk Distinguished Lectureship

Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis:

  • New Investigator Award

American Bryological and Lichenological Society

  • William Starling Sullivant Award
  • Edward Tuckerman Award

American Phytopathological Society

  • Ruth Allen Award
  • Noel T. Keen Award for Research in Molecular Plant Pathology
  • Lee M. Hutchins Award
  • William Boright Hewitt and Maybelle Ellen Ball Hewitt Award

American Society for Horticultural Science

  • Outstanding International Horticulturist
  • Outstanding Researcher
  • Cross-Commodity Publication
  • Fruit Publication
  • Ornamentals Publication
  • Vegetable Publication
  • Hall of Fame Award

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers

  • Hancor Soil and Water Engineering Award
  • G. B. Gunlogson Countryside Engineering Award
  • Asabe Kishida International Award
  • Namic Engineering Safety Award
  • Sunkist Young Designer Award
  • New Holland Young Researcher Award
  • Mayfield Cotton Engineering Award
  • National Food & Energy Council Electric Technology Award
  • Rain Bird Engineering Concept of the Year
  • Award for the Advancement of Surface Irrigation
  • Heermann Sprinkler Irrigation Award
  • FPSA-FPEI Food Engineering Award
  • Cyrus Hall McCormick-Jerome Increase Case Gold Medal
  • John Deere Gold Medal

American Society of Agronomy

  • Syngenta Crop Protection Recognition Award
  • ASA Fellow
  • Carl Sprengel Agronomic Research Award
  • Environmental Quality Research Award
  • Werner L. Nelson Award for Diagnosis of Yield-Limiting Factors

American Society of Plant Biologists

  • Charles F. Kettering Award
  • Charles Reid barnes Lifetime Membership Award
  • Dennis R. Hoagland Award
  • Early Career Award
  • Fellow of ASPB
  • Lawrence Bogorad Award for Excellence in Plant Biology Research
  • Adolph E. Gude, Jr. Award
  • Charles Albert Shull Award
  • Martin Gibbs Medal
  • Stephen Hales Prize

American Phytopathological Society

  • Fellow
  • Award of Distinction

American Society for Plant Taxonomy

  • Assey Gray award

Botanical Society of America

  • Centennial Awards
  • BSA Merit Award
  • Michael Cichan Award
  • Darbaker Prize
  • Henry Allan Gleason Award
  • Margaret Menzel Award
  • Jeanette Siron Pelton Award
  • Winfried and Renate Remy Award
  • Edgar T. Wherry Award
  • Physiological Section Li-Core Prize

Crop Science Society of America

  • Young Crop Scientist Award
  • CSSA Fellow
  • Crop Science Research Award
  • Frank N. Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources
  • Fred V. Grau Turfgrass Science Award
  • Seed Science Award
  • Monsanto Crop Science Distinguished Career Award

Mycological Society of America

  • Distinguished Mycologist award
  • C. J. Alexopoulos award
  • MSA Fellow

Phycological Society of America

  • Gerald W. Prescott award
  • Luigi Provasoli award
  • Award of Excellence

Society of American Foresters

  • Gifford Pinchot Medal
  • Barrington Moore Memorial Award in Biological Science
  • SAF Award in Forest Science
  • Presidential Field Forester Award

Weed Science Society of America

  • Early Career Outstanding Scientist Award
  • Outstanding Research Award

American Public Health Association

  • Sedgwick Memorial Prize
  • APHA Award for Excellence
  • Jay S. Drotman Memorial Award
  • APHA-GlaxoSmithKline Partnership Award
  • Executive Director Citation
  • Presidential Citation

Institute of Medicine, National Academies 

  • Gustav O. Lienhard award
  • Robert Wood Johnson Policy Fellowship

Society for Conservation Biology

  • Edward T. LaRoe III award