AGA: Student Abstract Award Grant

The AGA: Student Abstract Award offers a $500 travel grant to graduate students, medical students, and residents (up to postgraduate year three) presenting at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW). It aims to inspire interest in gastroenterology research by recognizing outstanding abstracts, with the top scorer honored as the Student Abstract of the Year and awarded an additional $1,000. Applicants must be sponsored by an AGA member and may only submit one abstract.

This $500 travel award supports recipients who are graduate students, medical students or medical residents (residents up to postgraduate year three) giving abstract-based oral or poster presentations at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW). The top scoring abstract will be designated the Student Abstract of the Year and receive a $1,000 award. Four recipients will receive the AGA–Radhika Srinivasan Student Abstract Prize.
Objective
The objective of the AGA Research Foundation Student Abstract Award is to stimulate interest in gastroenterology and hepatology research careers by providing recognition to graduate students, medical students or residents (residents up to postgraduate year three) with exceptional abstracts accepted by AGA for presentation at DDW. The top scoring abstract is designated the Student Abstract of the Year.

Eligibility

Applicants must be sponsored by an AGA member in good standing at the time of application submission.Applicants must be the first author of an abstract or the designated speaker of an oral presentation accepted by AGA for presentation at DDW.
Applicants must be graduate students, medical students or medical residents (residents up to postgraduate year three) at an institution in North America who have performed original research related to diseases, structure or function of the digestive system.Applicants may only submit one abstract for consideration.

Ineligibility

All high school and undergraduate students are ineligible.
Postdoctoral fellows, technicians, visiting scientists and MD research fellows are not eligible for this award.Graduate students, medical students and medical residents training outside North America (U.S., Canada and Mexico) are ineligible.