Awards and Funding

ASTMH Travel Award
Application Deadline: April 3, 2013
View the application guidelines.
Travel award notices will be sent in late August.
Limited funding is available to support Annual Meeting travel of selected students, young investigators and scientists actively working in the tropical medicine field. Travel award applicants participate in the meeting through oral or poster presentations and are selected based on abstract quality, research results and career development potential. Applicants need not be ASTMH members.

Young Investigator Award
Application Deadline: May 2, 2013
The award submission site is now closed.
ASTMH will present the Young Investigator Award to outstanding young researchers during the Annual Meeting. This award encourages developing young scientists to pursue careers in various aspects of tropical disease research. 

American Committee on Arthropod-Borne Viruses (ACAV) Kelly Labell Student Travel Award
Application Deadline: May 2, 2013
The award submission site is now closed.
Limited funding is available to support travel and accommodation costs for a graduate student attending the ASTMH Annual Meeting. Student registration costs for the Annual Meeting will be waived for the award recipient. The award will be made to a graduate student who is conducting research on Eastern Equine Encephalitis or other mosquito-borne viral diseases. Applicants must present their research either orally or in poster format during the Annual Meeting.
  
American Committee of Medical Entomology (ACME) Student Travel Award
Application Deadline: May 2, 2013
The award submission site is now closed.
Limited funding is available to support travel and accomodation costs for graduate student attending the Annual Meeting. Student registration costs for the Annual Meeting will be waived for the award recipient. Applicants must present their research which directly or indirectly involves arthropods of medical importance either orally or in a poster format during the Annual Meeting. 

Elsevier Clinical Research Award
Application Deadline: June 5, 2013
View the application guidelines.
Submit your online application here beginning April 3. 
This award recognizes excellence in clinically oriented research presented by a student at the Annual Meeting.