Awards and Scholarships

This award recognizes individuals who have made a contribution to neuro-infectious disease research.

This award recognizes early career investigators who have advanced the field of neuro-oncology.

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.

This award is designed to encourage basic research in neuroscience by physicians in clinical neurology training programs.

This prize is awarded to an individual for outstanding research in the field of behavioral neurology. Applicants should have a strong desire to expand the field of behavioral neurology through research.

This award aims to recognize the importance of good clinical research and to encourage young investigators in clinical studies in multiple sclerosis.

This award recognizes clerkship directors who have dedicated themselves to neurology education, not only creating future generations of neurologists but also teaching neurology to students choosing other disciplines.

This award recognizes major contributions to the understanding of the cause, prevention, treatment of, and ultimately the cure for Pick’s, Alzheimer’s, and related diseases.

This award recognizes an individual for outstanding work in the field of neuropathic pain for either a single contribution or for lifetime achievement.

The Regional Conference Trainee Scholarship for Residents is designed to encourage resident attendance at AAN’s Regional Conferences to further augment the neurology resident’s education by providing scholarship funds to offset registration and travel costs associated with attending the conference.

The AINA Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a leader in neurology by their peers. The recipient will be a North American neurologist chosen based on their dedication to advancing the training of North American neurologists of Indian origin and promoting innovation and research in the field.

This award is designed to recognize a private practitioner's outstanding service to the Academy.

This program is geared toward 4th-year AAN member US medical students who plan to pursue a Neurology visiting student rotation at a LCME/AOA approved US medical school or a National Institute of Health. 

This award recognizes scientific contributions in sleep from promising early career investigators. The goal of this award is to reward productive early-career investigators and to emphasize the essential role of neurology in sleep medicine.

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.

This scholarship offers US medical students from underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds in medicine the opportunity to attend the AAN Annual Meeting.

This prestigious award recognizes exceptional clinical neurology educators, who are the lifeblood of neurology and is reserved for those who have distinguished themselves by devoting their practice to clinical neurology, seeing patients, and teaching clinical neurology.

This award recognizes a qualified Neuroscience course director or a pair of co-directors who have developed a robust educational program for pre-clerkship medical students.

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.

The Resident Scholarship to the Annual Meeting is offered as an effort to recognize the importance of US or Canadian resident attendance at the AAN Annual Meeting.