• All applicants for travel grants sponsored by a scientific council must be members of the AHA/ASA at any level at the time of application.  If you need to become an AHA/ASA Professional Member, you should do so before submitting your abstract and award application materials.  Join or renew today!
• Applicants may be graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, residents or have a faculty rank no higher than instructor at the time of application. Faculty at assistant professor level or higher are not eligible.
• During the abstract submission process, applicants must submit the required award documentation and select the award for which they are applying.
• The applicant must be the first/primary author of the abstract.
• Abstracts eligible for this award must be based upon projects that adhere to the American Heart Association’s policies governing all research awards, regardless of whether the project was funded by the American Heart Association.  These policies are available here and include (but are not limited to) research using human subjects or animals and stem cell research.
• Notwithstanding the above, the AHA Officers have the discretion to determine eligibility for the award in extraordinary circumstances when there is an issue relating to AHA policy or positions or other potentially controversial issue relating to the positioning or perception of the AHA.
• Winners are not eligible to re-enter the competition in subsequent years.
• Winners may only win one type of travel grant or award per conference during the same year.
• There are no citizenship restrictions for this award.

• All applicants for travel grants sponsored by a scientific council must be members of the AHA/ASA at any level at the time of application.  If you need to become an AHA/ASA Professional Member, you should do so before submitting your abstract and award application materials.  Join or renew today!
• Applicants may be graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, residents or have a faculty rank no higher than instructor at the time of application. Faculty at assistant professor level or higher are not eligible.
• During the abstract submission process, applicants must submit the required award documentation and select the award for which they are applying.
• The applicant must be the first/primary author of the abstract.
• Abstracts eligible for this award must be based upon projects that adhere to the American Heart Association’s policies governing all research awards, regardless of whether the project was funded by the American Heart Association.  These policies are available here and include (but are not limited to) research using human subjects or animals and stem cell research.
• Notwithstanding the above, the AHA Officers have the discretion to determine eligibility for the award in extraordinary circumstances when there is an issue relating to AHA policy or positions or other potentially controversial issue relating to the positioning or perception of the AHA.
• Winners are not eligible to re-enter the competition in subsequent years.
• Winners may only win one type of travel grant or award per conference during the same year.
• There are no citizenship restrictions for this award.

Applications will be judged primarily based on the scientific ranking of the candidate’s abstract.  Only abstracts selected for presentation at the HBPR 2013 Scientific Sessions will be eligible for consideration for this travel grant.

Submit a scientific abstract to the High Blood Pressure Research 2013 Scientific Sessions as well as all supporting award documentation via the conference's abstract submission site by 5:00 PM CST on May 15, 2013.

The following items must be submitted for consideration for this travel grant:

• AHA abstract in accordance with AHA rules and regulations for submitting abstracts to the High Blood Pressure 2013 Scientific Sessions.  The work covered by the abstract must not have been published before the date and time of presentation at HBPR 2013 Scientific Sessions.  Abstract data must not have been presented at a national or international meeting or world congress before the date and time of presentation at HBPR 2013 Scientific Sessions.   
• Curriculum vitae
• Letter by the candidate's supervisor/mentor attesting the following: the candidate is an early career investigator as outlined in the eligibility criteria; the abstract research was performed primarily by the candidate; he or she is the first author of the abstract, and that the research has not been published or presented elsewhere previously. 

Up to ten awardees will be presented a $1200 travel grant at the meeting to help defray travel expenses to attend the HBPR 2013 Scientific Sessions to present their research.  Awardees must be present at the meeting in order to receive their awards.