AHA Institutional Award for Undergraduate Student Training

The AHA Institutional Award for Undergraduate Student Training sits under the American Heart Association's research funding portfolio as a training award rather than an investigator grant. It supports U.S. nonprofit institutions that want to build a steady undergraduate research track in cardiovascular and brain health science. The award totals $165,000 over three years and is structured around training two to five undergraduate students each year. The program director must be a full-time faculty member at assistant professor level or above, have a documented mentoring record, and register as an AHA peer reviewer. Eligible students are juniors, seniors, or recent graduates, and the annual cycle runs through ProposalCentral with a September deadline. The strongest applications are institutional, not individual: they show a working training environment, repeated student participation, and faculty supervision that can carry across multiple cohorts. The award rewards programs that can turn undergraduate interest into a repeatable research experience rather than a one-off placement.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.