IARS is dedicated to encouraging, stimulating, and funding ongoing anesthesia-related research projects that will enhance and advance the specialty. A trusted resource for state-of-the-art research data, IARS supports basic research and all areas of clinical research, including perioperative medicine, critical care, and pain management.
“The IARS is willing to take a bet on new studies and important questions that larger funding agencies, like the NIH, are very unlikely to bet on.”
— Past award recipient
IARS Mentored Research Award: Creating Future Research LeadersThe IARS Mentored Research Awards (IMRA) have impacted the careers of 48 promising investigators in the specialty of anesthesiology and beyond, creating future leaders. From 2013 to the present, new researchers continue to benefit from this opportunity each year, receiving a maximum award of $175,000 each. View this video to hear some of their stories. Learn more. |
IARS Mentored Research Award: Creating Future Research Leaders
The IARS Mentored Research Awards (IMRA) have impacted the careers of 48 promising investigators in the specialty of anesthesiology and beyond, creating future leaders. From 2013 to the present, new researchers continue to benefit from this opportunity each year, receiving a maximum award of $175,000 each. View this video to hear some of their stories. Learn more.
Current Grants
Research is key for the anesthesiology specialty to successfully master the challenges of the future. IARS is looking to the future 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.
Kosaka Best Abstracts Award
The Kosaka Best Abstract Awards are awarded to the top scoring abstracts submitted to the IARS Annual Meeting in three categories: Clinical Research, Basic Science, or Scholars. Three top finalists are selected in each category and each present their abstract again during the Kosaka Best Abstract Session at the IARS meeting. The abstract finalists receive a $50 prize and one winner from each category receives $500. Discover more about the award recipients.
The Kosaka Best Abstract Awards are supported by the Japan Society for Clinical Anesthesia (JSCA) and the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS). The founder of the JSCA, Dr. Futami Kosaka, started a cooperative relationship with IARS in 1990 and developed the foundation for this exciting opportunity.
Anesthesia Research Council
Anesthesia Research Council’s (ARC) mission is to advance scientific discovery and health care policy through the development and dissemination of research in anesthesiology, perioperative, and pain medicine with the goal to become the go-to resource for state-of-the-art review, synthesis, and future recommendations in anesthesiology, perioperative medicine, critical care, and pain medicine research.
ARC currently is a 3-year program, supported by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), Foundation for Anesthesia and Education Research (FAER) and IARS and overseen by a Steering Committee. The Steering Committee, chaired by Max Kelz, MD, PhD, is responsible for choosing the annual study focus and generating a series of concrete questions to be addressed, resulting in a final work product. The Committee also identifies and recruits a diverse working group of 5–6 people responsible for generating the final outcome.
ORCID iDs at IARS
Attach your identity to your research and get the proper recognition for your work. IARS encourages all researchers to use an ORCID iD when submitting awards and grant applications. An ORCID identifier (ORCID iD) is a unique, personal, persistent identifier for researchers that distinguishes you from every other researcher and enables you to link your publications to your unique record, ensuring your work is recognized.
Previous Grants
The IARS established its Grants Program in 1983 to further the scientific advancement of the anesthesiology specialty.
“[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
“[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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