ACS Faculty Research Fellowships Grant

The ACS Faculty Research Fellowships, provided by the American College of Surgeons, offer a two-year funding opportunity of $40,000 per year to surgeons pursuing academic careers. This fellowship aims to support the development of independent research programs under mentorship, allowing applicants to demonstrate their potential as independent investigators. Eligible candidates must be recent ACS Fellows with full-time faculty appointments in accredited medical schools, ensuring a commitment of at least 50% of their time to research activities.

The American College of Surgeons is offering two-year faculty research fellowships, through the generosity of Fellows, Chapters, and friends of the College, to surgeons entering academic careers in surgery or a surgical specialty. The fellowship is to assist a surgeon in the establishment of their research program under mentorship with the goal of transitioning to becoming an independent investigator. Applicants should have demonstrated their potential to work as independent investigators. The fellowship award is $40,000 per year for each of two years, to support the research.

Eligibility

The applicant must be a Fellow or Associate Fellow of the ACS who has completed an accredited residency training program in surgery in the United States or Canada within the preceding five years, not including time off for parental leave, military deployment, or medical leave.The applicant must have a full-time faculty appointment in a department of surgery or a surgical specialty at a medical school accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education in the United States or by the Committee for Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools.The applicant must demonstrate their potential to work as an independent investigator.A minimum of 50 percent of the Fellow’s time must be spent in the research proposed in the application. This percentage may run concurrently with the time requirements of NIH or other accepted funding.The ACS encourages diversity of applicants and institutions; only in exceptional circumstances will more than one scholarship be granted to applicants from the same institution.

Ineligibility

The American College of Surgeons Scholarship Committee will not consider applicants who have already received extramural research awards over $25,000 from professional societies or extramural sponsors (i.e., NIH).