Research is key for the anesthesiology specialty to successfully master the challenges of the future. IARS is pushing the ball with its Grants Program, supporting research and scientific advancement of the anesthesiology specialty. To date, the IARS has funded more than 225 projects, contributing more than $22 million to the anesthesia community.
“As anesthesiologists, it’s a challenge balancing between the clinical work and the research aspect of things. Having [the IARS Mentored Research Award] provides you with the necessary time to complete meaningful research.”
— Past Award Recipient
IARS International Outreach Travel Grant – up to $5,000
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Submission Deadline: Grant cycle currently closed
Travel grant awards range from $1,000 and up to $5,000 for abstract presenters to attend the IARS Annual Meetings, presented by IARS and SOCCA. The IARS International Outreach Travel Grant, developed by the IARS International Subcommittee, supports scientists globally to grow the richness and diversity of background, location and expertise at the IARS Annual Meeting. These IARS travel grants are designed specifically for individuals located in low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income countries who are involved in research related to anesthesia. The IARS travel grants make it possible for individuals, who would not otherwise be able to participate in the meeting, to access the wider global anesthesiology community through meaningful engagement at our leading-edge annual meeting.
IARS Mentored Research Award (IMRA) – $175,000
This award is intended to support investigations that will further the understanding of clinical practice in anesthesiology and related sciences. Up to four research projects are selected annually, with a maximum award of $175,000 each, payable over two years. These grants help create future leaders and prepare applicants to apply for independent research funding.
Coming in 2025! IARS Global Scholars Award
New funding opportunity coming in 2025 from IARS – The Global Scholars Award (GSA)! GSA is a two-year, up to $50,000 award to support a global mentored research initiative with the goal of providing meaningful, sustainable research initiatives for the awardee and their institution. The focus of the initiative is to support a well-defined project in perioperative anesthesiology in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), while promoting research training and mentoring for the candidate.
- GSA is designed to foster innovation, creativity, and capacity building for an early career/young investigator interested in a career in academic research.
- Projects must have direct relevance to the practice of anesthesiology.
- Applicants must demonstrate a commitment to research and the potential for leadership within their home country.
- Eligible Organizations must be located in an LMIC, as defined by The World Bank.
“[The IMRA] has allowed me to further anesthesiology presence in critical care research and specifically, critical care nephrology. Anesthesiology has a vital role to play in critical care research and needs to have more investigators at the forefront of the research.”
– 2017 IARS Mentored Research Recipient Jamie Privratsky, MD, PhD
“[My IMRA-funded research project] is something I’m very, very proud of, not just because we had good preliminary data to put into the project, but because of the funding it just spun out a lot of studies that were very unbiased, but high-quality studies, that we had a real joy to write up and submit to journals. They were all very successful.”
– 2015 IARS Mentored Research Award Recipient Laura Cornelissen, Msci, PhD
“This [IMRA-funded] study will really help us identify not only how many patients don’t get back to their preoperative level, but how do we predict who that is, and that will help us design interventions to make sure that patients can get back to their functional status that they were at before, if not better. It really helps change the paradigm of postoperative outcome assessment and makes it more patient-centered. This study plays a very important part of that. And so in and of itself, it’s probably a small part, but it will definitely lead to bigger and greater things that will improve patient care.”
– 2018 IARS Mentored Research Award Recipient Interview: Karim Ladha, MD
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