ASH-AMFDP Award

http://www.hematology.org/Awards/Career-Training/406.aspx

For more than 20 years, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has sought to reduce the underrepresentation of minority scholars in academic medicine through their Minority Medical Faculty Development Program, which was created to assist faculty from historically disadvantaged backgrounds achieve senior rank in academic medicine. The program was recently renamed and expanded in honor of Harold Amos, PhD, who was the first African-American to chair a department, now the Department of Microbiology and Medical Genetics, at the Harvard Medical School.

The AMFDP offers four-year postdoctoral research awards to historically disadvantaged physicians who are committed to developing careers in academic medicine and to serving as role models for students and faculty of similar backgrounds. The program defines "historically disadvantaged" individuals as those who face challenges because of their race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or other similar factors.

Program Benefits

The ASH-AMFDP Award provides four years of research support, including an annual stipend of up to $75,000 and an annual grant of $30,000 toward the support of research activities. Applicants to the ASH-AMFDP program are responsible for identifying a mentor at their institutions to work with them and give them research and career guidance. ASH-AMFDP Scholars are also assigned a National Advisory Committee mentor to follow their progress within the program and give them guidance. Recipients will be invited to the AMFDP annual meeting each year with travel expenses covered by the grant. The recipient's mentor is expected to attend the meeting for the first two years of the grant; travel costs are reimbursed by the AMFDP.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this program, applicants must be:

• From historically disadvantaged backgrounds
• U.S. citizens or permanent residents at the time of application deadline
• Completing or have completed their formal clinical training
• Additionally, applicants must have excelled in their education; be prepared to devote four consecutive years to research; and be committed to academic careers, improving the health status of the underserved, and decreasing health disparities.

Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award

http://www.hematology.org/Awards/Abstract-Achievement/446.aspx

Students who are selected for the Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award will already be conducting hematology-related research, and must submit an abstract to the annual ASH meeting that is accepted for oral or poster presentation.

Students will be encouraged to remain involved with ASH throughout graduate school, in an effort to keep them engaged in the study of hematology.

Recipients are eligible to apply for additional Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Awards in subsequent years, as long as they are still eligible.

Program Benefits

Participants will receive the following financial support:

• A stipend of $1,500

Participants will also receive complimentary online subscriptions to Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology, as well as The Hematologist, the Society's newsletter, during all of their remaining graduate school years.

Eligibility Requirements

For the purposes of this program, minority is defined as individuals from racial and ethnic groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in health-related sciences in the United States and Canada, including American Indians or Alaska Natives, Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, Native Hawaiians or Other Pacific Islanders, African Canadians, Innuit, and First Nation Peoples. Thus, applicants must self-identify, and participants are drawn from this pool.

In addition, applicants must be:

• Enrolled in a graduate-level course of study at a school or institution in the U.S. or Canada.
• In the first three years of their graduate school education.
• Engaged in research under the direction of an ASH member.
• An author on an abstract submitted to the ASH annual meeting that is accepted for poster or oral presentation. Please note that priority is given to first-authors.
• Students pursuing their masters are not eligible.