AED Scholarship & Research Grant Information

AED is pleased to offer the following travel scholarships and research grants. All applicants must fill out the AED common scholarship/grant application form and complete specific application requirements for the AED scholarship or grant for which you're applying. Specific application requirements can be obtained by clicking on the title of each award below. To support the AED scholarship and grants, donate to the 2011-2012 AED Scholarship Fund. 

Travel Scholarships

Research Grants

Travel Scholarships

AED Clinician Scholarship Program
The Academy for Eating Disorders has established a Clinician Scholarship program to help defray annual meeting costs for clinicians and educators who otherwise might not be able to afford conference fees. The intent of this scholarship program is to provide the applicant with knowledge and skills that will then be disseminated by the applicant in his/her community.

AED Student/Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowship Program
The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) funds students and those in the early stages of their career to attend AED's International Conference on Eating Disorders. Pending the availability of funds, additional travel fellowships will be awarded from funds from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to those who qualify.

ANZAED/AED Young Investigator Travel Scholarship
The ANZAED/AED Young Investigator Travel Scholarship is a joint initiative between the sister organizations to encourage Antipodeans early in their research career to present their work at the 2012 ICED.

Research Grants

The purpose of the program is to support innovative and cutting-edge research conducted by student members of AED.

AED Student Research Grants
These grants can be used to support any aspect of a student research project, including (but not limited to) participant payments, support staff salaries and costs related to study assessments and/or database management. These awards serve the dual purpose of enhancing the training of our student members and advancing the science in our field by funding the most innovative and promising research.

Annual Early Career Investigator Award for Best Paper Published in 2011

The International Journal of Eating Disorders and Wiley InterScience are pleased to announce the annual Early Career Investigator Award in the amount of $2,500, given for the best paper published in the Journal each year. Eligible papers must appear in print by the end of the calendar year. To qualify for consideration, candidates must not be more than 5 years post advanced degree, or 5 years post residency or fellowship training. Equal consideration will be given by the Selection Committee to empirical and non-empirical papers. Any author who believes he or she is eligible for Award consideration should notify the Editor directly at mstrober@mednet.ucla.edu and include the complete citation of the article, including names of any co-authors. A letter from the relevant official of the applicant’s Residency, Training, or Academic Program that certifies the date of the applicant’s graduation from the Program will be needed for documenting eligibility and must be received by the Editor prior to the Committee’s review of candidate papers. Documentation of eligibility can be sent to Dr. Strober via email: mstrober@mednet.ucla.edu; fax:(310)825-2982; or postal service: Michael Strober, PhD, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90024-1759 U.S.A. Past Awardees are not eligible for additional consideration. We are truly delighted to be able to offer this special support to young investigators.

The deadline for submission is March 15, 2012.

Michael Strober, PhD,
Editor-in-Chief

Anne Becker, M.D., Howard Steiger, Ph.D., Kelly Klump, M.D., Glenn Waller, M.D.
Associate Editors
 

Outside Funding and Training Opportunities

Several other organizations offer funding opportunities for eating disorders research. Specific application requirements can be obtained by clicking on the title of each award below.

Research Grants and Training Opportunities

Research Grants and Training Opportunities

National Institutes of Health Translational Research in Eating Disorders
The National Institutes of Health is committed to supporting research that will transform basic research discoveries into treatments or methods for prevention. This funding opportunity announcement seeks to foster the development of translational research studies that will increase our scientific understanding of the etiology and pathogenesis of eating disorders.

NIMH would like to encourage research grant applications that will advance our understanding of the etiology, early identification, best treatment and medical sequelae of eating disorders. The previse etiology of eating disorders remains unknown, but ongoing research implicates genetic (heritability estimate 0.5-0.8), neurochemical, psychological and cultural factors. This program announcement is designed to encourage innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to address the dearth or research in this area.

Klarman Family Foundation Grants Program in Eating Disorders Research
The Klarman Family Foundation is interested in providing strategic investment in translational research that will accelerate progress in developing effective treatments for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. The program's short-term goal is to support the most outstanding science and expand the pool of scientists whose research explores the basic biology of eating disorders. The long-term goal is to improve the lives of patients suffereing from these conditions.

Examples of funding areas include but are not limited to molecular genetic analysis of relevant neural circuit assembly and function; epigenetic research; animal models created by genetically altering neural circuits; and testing of new chemical entities that might be used in animal models as exploratory treatments. Please note that imaging studies will NOT be accepted in the 2011 grant cycle. Investigators conducting research in the neuro-circuitry of fear conditioning or reward behavior may also apply but must justify the relevance of their research projects to the basic biology of eating disorders. Clinical psychotherapeutic studies, medication trials and research in the medical complications of these disorders are outside the scope of this program.

Two-year awards of $400,000 USD ($200,000 per year inclusive of 10 percent indirect costs) and one-year pilot studies of up to $150,000 USD (inclusive of 10 percent indirect costs) are made to investigators with a faculty appointment at a nonprofit academic, medical or research institution in the United States, Canada or Israel.

Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED)
Eating disorders and disordered weight control behaviors present a significant threat to the health of adolescents and adults, yet they remain largely overlooked by public health and preventive medicine professionals. To address this critical need, we launched STRIPED in July 2009, based at the Harvard School of Public Health and Children’s Hospital Boston, with the goal of building a transdisciplinary training initiative that will generate professionals with the depth and range of expertise and skills needed to take on the challenge of eating disorders prevention.

Our initiative is a public health incubator, designed to cultivate the creation of novel insights and strategies for prevention by introducing trainees to a rich array of disciplinary perspectives, methodologies, and theories and providing them with opportunities to join crosscutting collaborative teams.

Matina S. Horner Summer Research Fellowship
The Matina S. Horner, Ph.D. Summer Research Fellowship Program is designed to mentor young investigators in the field of eating disorders. Fellows accepted into the program will complete a 10-week independent research project at the Harris Center. In completing the project, our Fellows receive supervision and mentorship, participate in current research activities, and meet weekly with our staff.

Fellowships will be awarded to outstanding applicants who submit a proposal that describes an original research project. Applicants should design a research proposal so that the project can be completed within the 10-week fellowship period.