Awards & Funding

To reduce administrative burden on the applicant community, NIH will remove the prior approval requirement for submission of conference grant applications under the R13 and U13 activity

The PF5 Collaborative International Research Project implements a new award structure for research collaborations with international components and is applicable for grant submissions on or after May 25, 2026.

In this seminar, Jennifer Nemhauser will discuss the many ways that her mentor Joanne Chory made the case that plant genetics are worth more time, attention and investment.

This prestigious award is presented to a leading scientist, or up to three, in recognition of groundbreaking contributions to any realm of genetics research.

This award is presented each year to outstanding recent graduates who have completed a PhD in an area of Drosophila research. The recipient will present the Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture at the opening session of #Dros26.

This seminar will highlight the role of interdisciplinary partnerships and showcase online platforms like MARRVEL and ModelMatcher that bridge basic science and clinical research.

The Starter Culture Microgrant Program funds projects that will benefit the genetics community and allows GSA to be more responsive to member needs and changing contexts. This award cycle is for projects to be held August through December 2025.

In this seminar, GSA Medal Award recipient Noah Whiteman will discuss how animals and other multicellular eukaryotes have gained novel adaptations through horizontal gene transfer from viruses and prokaryotes.

In this seminar, Beadle Award recipient Suhir Kumar will highlight the inspiration behind widely used computational tools and the biological discoveries they enabled, and will explore how bridging methods and insights through data-driven approaches has advanced the understanding of species evolution and human disease.

In this seminar, Edward Novitski Prize recipient Kevin Struhl will discuss the Recombinant DNA enabled the development of yeast molecular biology and reverse genetic analysis. Register to attend.

The Vilcek Foundation will award three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant biomedical scientists who demonstrate outstanding early achievement.