Research Endowment: Early Career Research Grant

The American College of Sports Medicine's Research Endowment: Early Career Research Grant supports innovative research in exercise science. Open to all ACSM members, including students, this grant provides essential seed funding for mechanistic and hypothesis-driven studies. Successful applicants will demonstrate how initial findings will inform future research efforts. This initiative aims to empower new researchers while promoting advancements in health and human performance. Applications are limited to one per year per applicant.

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.

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.