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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AAN Neuro-infectious Disease Award
This award recognizes individuals who have made a contribution to neuro-infectious disease research.
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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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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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S. Weir Mitchell Resident-Fellow Research Award
This award is designed to encourage basic research in neuroscience by physicians in clinical neurology training programs.
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Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral Neurology
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.
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Clinical Research Training Scholarship in MS
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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Clerkship Director Award
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.
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Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases
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.
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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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Regional Conference Trainee Scholarship for Residents
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.
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Association of Indian Neurologists in America (AINA) Lifetime Achievement Award
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.
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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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Visiting Medical Student Scholarship
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.
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Wayne A. Hening Sleep Medicine Investigator Award
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.
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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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Medical Student Diversity Scholarship to the Annual Meeting
This scholarship offers US medical students from underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds in medicine the opportunity to attend the AAN Annual Meeting.
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Frank A. Rubino Award for Excellence in Clinical Neurology Teaching
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.
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Neuroscience Course Director Excellence Award
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.
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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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Resident Scholarship to the Annual Meeting
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.