Awards & Funding

This award is presented each year to an outstanding recent graduate who has completed a PhD in an area of Drosophila research.

This award helps support costs for undergraduates presenting their Drosophila research at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference, to be held in March 2025.

The $1,000 award supports graduate students or postdocs by subsidizing participation in conferences and laboratory courses.

The Genetics Society of America Medal honors an individual member of the Society for their contributions to the field of genetics at the early-career level.

"The Build-A-Genome Course, an Adventure in Mixing Research and Education"

"Dogs and Their Genes: Whatever Will They Think of Next?"

"A Worm’s Eye View of the Genotype-Phenotype Problem"

"Transcriptional Regulation of Organ Specification, Form, and Function in a Model System"

GSA graduate student or postdoc members may apply for funding for conferences and laboratory courses.

This program gives GSA members of any career stage up to $2000 for a project that will benefit the genetics community.

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