What's New in Grants & Fellowships
Van Wagenen Fellowship
2014 Application Available Fall 2012
The Van Wagenen Fellowship provides residents graduating from a North American training site with private, non-governmental funding, to be used toward overseas travel for medical enrichment prior to beginning an academic career in neurological surgery. It has served as the foundation for the careers of many of neurosurgery’s great educators, whom today hold academic leadership positions at some of the most prestigious neurosurgery programs. Please be aware that the application cycle has been revised to allow all applicants to be notified of results earlier and for additional planning.
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NREF Post-Residency Clinical Fellowships
Applications Available Summer 2012
The NREF strongly encourages institutions to apply for funding for clinical neurosurgical fellowship with a focus on spine surgery, endovascular neurosurgery, general neurosurgery, neurocritical care, neurosurgical oncology, other cerebrovascular – related fellowships, pediatric neurosurgery, peripheral nerve surgery and stereotactic/functional neurosurgery.
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NREF Research Fellowships and Young Clinician Investigator Awards
Applications Available Summer 2012
Thanks to the generous support of the NREF Annual Fundraising Campaign by AANS members, academic departments, hospitals, medical groups, corporate contributors and the general public, the NREF awards research grants focusing on critical research projects in the field of neurological surgery.
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Medical Student Summer Research Fellowship program
2013 Application Available Fall 2012
The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), through the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation, is pleased to offer the Medical Student Summer Research Fellowship (MSSRF) program. The fellowship is open to medical students in the United States or Canada who have completed one or two years of medical school and wish to spend a summer working in a neurosurgical laboratory. Applicants must be mentored by a neurosurgical investigator who is a member of the AANS and will sponsor the student.
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If you have any questions about the fellowship offered through the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (NREF) of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, please feel free to contact our office at 847-378-0500 or by email at nref@aans.org.
WE PROUDLY RECOGNIZE THE FOLLOWING CORPORATIONS for their support of the
NREF Post-Residency Clinical Fellowship program for the 2012-2013 academic year!
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$500,000 and up
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DePuy Spine, Inc., a Johnson &
Johnson company
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| $250,000 to $499,999
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Codman & Shurtleff, Inc., a
Johnson & Johnson company
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Medtronic
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$100,000 to $249,999
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Zimmer Spine, Inc.
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Up to $100,000
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Lanx, Inc.
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The Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (NREF), which last fall, reached agreements with DePuy Spine, Inc., Medtronic, Zimmer Spine, Inc. and LANX, Inc. to provide funding to the NREF in support of the Foundation’s post-residency, clinical fellowship grant program with an emphasis in spine, is pleased to announce that the following programs have been awarded spine fellowship grants for the 2011-2012 academic year:
Cleveland Clinic
Johns Hopkins University
Medical College of Wisconsin
Northwestern University
Rush University
Stanford University
University of California - Los Angeles
University of California - San Francisco
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Utah
University of Virginia - Charlottesville
University of Washington
The NREF also reached an agreement with Codman & Shurtleff, Inc. last fall to provide funding to the NREF in support of the Foundation’s post-residency, clinical fellowship grant program with a focus on general neurosurgery as well as subspecialty areas such as pediatrics, neurosurgical oncology, peripheral nerve, neurocritical care, and stereotactic & functional neurosurgery. The following programs have been awarded fellowship funding in these areas for the 2011-2012 academic year:
Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
University of Toronto
University of Utah
The NREF is pleased to announce that the following programs have been awarded endovascular fellowship grants for the 2011-2012 academic year:
Methodist Healthcare Foundation, Semmes-Murphey
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
University of Florida