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Applications are now being accepted for the 2023 Thoracic Surgery Foundation (TSF) awards in the areas of cardiothoracic surgery research, education, leadership, and surgical outreach. Visit the TSF website [3] to apply for funding. The deadline for most awards is September 15, 2022. The 2023 TSF Awards Program includes:

Research

• STS Research Award – Up to $90,000 per year for 2 years
• TSF Research Award – Up to $85,000 per year for 2 years
• Braunwald Research Award – Up to $85,000 per year for 2 years
• Braunwald Research Fellowship – Up to $60,000 per year for 2 years
• TSF Resident Research Fellowship – Up to $60,000 per year for 2 years
• STSA Resident Research Award – Up to $40,000 per year for 2 years
• New! AstraZeneca Lung Cancer Research Award – Up to $50,000 per year for 2 years
• New! AstraZeneca Reversing Health Disparities in Lung Cancer Research Award – Up to $50,000 per year for 2 years

Education

• TSF/Francis Fontan Fund International Traveling Fellowship – Up to $20,000
• New! TSF/Francis Fontan Fund International Traveling in Partnership with LACES – Up to $11,000
• Michael J. Davidson Structural Heart Fellowship – Up to $50,000
• Every Heartbeat Matters Structural Heart Diversity Fellowship – Up to $50,000
• Nicholas Kouchoukos Award – Up to $10,000
• Carolyn E. Reed Traveling Fellowship – Up to $10,000
• Robert L. Replogle Traveling Fellowship – Up to $10,000
• Sarns Terumo Perfusion Education Fellowship – Up to $10,000
• Underrepresented Robotic General Thoracic Surgeon Development Award* – Up to $10,000
• Advanced Robotic Cardiac Surgery Fellowship* - $25,000 per award
• Levi Watkins Innovation and Leadership Development Scholarship – $5,000 per scholarship

Leadership

• TSF Alley-Sheridan Scholarship* – $2,500 per scholarship
  1. Leadership Program in Health Policy Management at Brandeis University
  2. Surgeons as Educators Course hosted by the American College of Surgeons

Surgical Outreach

• TSF Every Heartbeat Matters Award – Up to $35,000
• International Medical Volunteer Scholarship* – $2,500 per scholarship
• Saha Scholarships/2023 STS Annual Meeting* – Up to $3,075 per scholarship
• TSF Travel Scholarships/2022 STS/EACTS Latin America Cardiovascular Surgery Conference* – $1,250 per scholarship

Visit thoracicsurgeryfoundation.org/awards [4] to learn about each award’s eligibility criteria, deadlines, and funding amounts.  If you have questions about these grant opportunities, please contact tsf@sts.org [5].