AHA Career Development Award
AHA webpage:  https://professional.heart.org/en/research-programs/application-information/career-development-award?utm_source=researchinsiderdec2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=research+insider+dec+2020 

AHA Career Development Award
 Supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals in the early years of one’s first professional appointment, to explore questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist in the field of cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular disease research.
Please complete the UI Routing Form/process to secure departmental and collegiate approvals at least five business days before the AHA submission deadline.
 UIowa Completion/Routing deadline: February 8, 2021.
AHA deadline February 16, 2021

Applicants must be AHA Professional Partners at the time of application; this is done online. Join or begin the partner process well before the deadline.

Please apply as early as you can. The AHA has converted the application process from its own system, to using ProposalCentral, and there are still issues with this conversion.
PDF of application instructions   https://professional.heart.org/-/media/phd-files/research/application-information/application-instructions/2021_aha_research_funding_application_instructions_ucm_495100.pdf

PLEASE NOTE:  In section 7, titled “Institution and Personnel,” the PI-applicants  must

• select “University of Iowa” as the institution;
• select “J. Martin Scholtz (email era@uiowa.edu)” as the Grants Officer; and
• select “Maria Soliman  (email maria-soliman@uiowa.edu)" as the Fiscal Officer. 
  
  Selecting anything else will cause delays and could mean the application is not submitted prior to the deadline.

For answers to questions about eligibility and award details,  applicants should first review the AHA Application Information  page.  
Other questions from University of Iowa applicants may be directed to Mary Blackwood mary-blackwood@uiowa.edu,  phone: 335-3968, or Tracy Titus  tracy-titus@uiowa.edu,  phone 335-3202, in the UI Division of Sponsored Programs DSP.