Clinical Sports Medicine Endowment: Clinician Research Grant

The Clinical Sports Medicine Endowment: Clinician Research Grant, offered by the American College of Sports Medicine, aims to advance clinical research in sports medicine. This grant supports innovative studies focused on the active care of athletes, including prevention strategies and treatment outcomes. Eligible applicants include ACSM members and graduate students, promoting research that addresses critical issues in sports medicine to enhance athlete health and performance.

American College of Sports Medicine
The American College of Sports Medicine® (ACSM) serves as the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world, with nearly 50,000 international, national and regional members and certified fitness professionals. All are dedicated to ACSM’s mission to educate and empower professionals to advance the science and practice of health and human performance.
Clinical Sports Medicine Endowment: Clinician Research Grant
The Clinical Sports Medicine Endowment funds research directly related to clinical sports medicine. The purpose of the award is to stimulate:
Clinical research in sports medicine derived from active care of athletes, such as prevention strategies, treatment protocols or treatment outcomes, and  Research in clinical sports medicine directly related to issues of active care of athletes, such as pathogenesis, pathophysiology, biomechanics, or environmental issues.
The active patient care must be provided to recreational, competitive, or elite athletes. Grant applications must demonstrate the study’s direct relationship with one of these purposes.

Eligibility

Grants are open to all ACSM members, including student and international members.Applicants for student research grants must have graduate student status at the start of and during the grant term.Previous ACSM Foundation grantees must submit final grant and expenditure reports prior to receiving another grant award.Applicants may only submit one application per year.A Principal Investigator (PI) of a grant is the individual whose research project is to be supported. The PI must be a graduate student, post-doctoral fellow, or on the faculty or staff at one of the institutions where the research is to be performed and must assume personal responsibility for conducting the proposed research and/or supervising the research activities of associates or assistants that may be required. The PI is expected to prepare the application and research proposal themselves and will be required to certify this when submitting the application.
You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member. Applicants must be an ACSM national member in good standing before applying for funding. Grantees must remain ACSM members through the life of the grant, including the final reporting period. ACSM chapter membership alone does not fulfill this requirement.

Ineligibility

Grants will not be awarded to individuals to duplicate projects, which are being supported by other funding agencies. If a proposal is submitted to add outcomes or important aspects to a project already funded by another mechanism, the relationship of the proposed work to the existing project must be clearly described.