The American Association for Anatomy’s awards program is one of the broadest in the industry. The program funds hundreds of thousands of dollars in awards, research grants and scholarships annually. In fact, one in 10 members receives an award, scholarship or grant every year. Many recipients go on to achieve significant success in their careers. 

Congratulations to our Spring 2025 award winners!

Awards Details & Deadlines

Find your next award, grant, or scholarship below. If you have any questions please email our Awards Program Manager, Jimmy Works, [email protected]

Click through the tabs by career level, awards are listed by deadline. 

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Upcoming Awards

Science Advocacy Fellowship

The Science Advocacy Fellowship is a two-year fellowship intended for mid-career faculty interested in science policy and advocacy

Rising Star Award

Recognizes early-career members who demonstrate excellence in their engagement with the AAA and exhibit the potential to serve in leadership roles in the AAA and at their home institution.

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Provides salary support to an AAA member who is a postdoctoral trainee working in any aspect of biology relevant to the anatomical sciences.

Anatomy Scholars Program

6/30/2024

The purpose of the Anatomy Scholars Program (ASP) is to support early career faculty and [senior level students, residents or fellows who aim to become faculty] who have or are facing hardships or barriers in academia in the US and Canada.

Annual Meeting Travel & Competition Awards

1/6/2025

Our Travel Awards help students/postdocs offset the cost of attending the Annual Meeting. Applicants are also eligible for onsite Competition Awards.

Basmajian Award

10/20/2025

Recognizes health science faculty who are in the formative stages of their career that teach human or veterinary gross anatomy.

Early-Career Investigator Awards

10/20/2025

Recognizes investigators in the early stages of their careers who have made important contributions to biomedical science through their research in cell/molecular biology, developmental biology, comparative neuroanatomy, or morphological sciences.

Early-Career Anatomist Publication Award

10/20/2025

Recognizes the best publication by an early-career anatomist in each of the society's three journals: Anatomical Sciences Education, Developmental Dynamics, and The Anatomical Record.

Henry Gray Distinguished Educator Award

10/20/2025

AAA's highest education award for human anatomy education in the anatomical sciences as broadly defined- including gross anatomy, embryology, histology, and neuroanatomy- at the medical/dental, graduate, or undergraduate level of teaching.

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