Research Grants and Scholarships
Summary
Details are provided below on ISHAS Research Grants, ISHAS Research Travel Grants and ISHAS Personal Scholarships.
Please note that only (paid up) ISHAS members are eligible to apply.
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ISHAS members can access the application forms below (You must be logged into your account to view them.)
If you are not already an ISHAS member, please apply for membership.
ISHAS Research Grants
Up to $3,000. One application deadline per year. The application can be for any bona fide research activity on HA, apart from attendance at a scientific meeting.
ISHAS Trainee Members are welcome to apply with a statement from the Trainee’s mentor in support of the application.
The submission deadline for the next round of applications is scheduled towards the end of 2025. Apply below.
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ISHAS Research Travel Grants
Up to $1,500. Two application deadlines per year. To fund researchers (e.g., Trainee Members) making visits to collaborating labs (or Corporate Affiliate member companies) to undertake training in new techniques or to carry out a defined set of experiments, i.e., to pump/prime collaborations and/or build capacity/expertise in the HA community.
Here, we will also consider funding for well-justified attendance/participation at scientific meetings that are not organised by ISHAS (travel funds for ISHAS conferences will be supported through meeting-specific travel scholarships).
ISHAS Trainee Members are welcome to apply, with a statement from the Trainee’s mentor in support of the application. Please note that Travel Grants CANNOT be for the purpose of attending ISHAS scientific meetings.
The submission deadline for the next round of applications is scheduled for early 2025. Apply below.
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ISHAS Personal Scholarships:
Up to $1,000. No deadline. To provide support for underfunded ISHAS members (e.g., from non-OECD countries). Funds could be used for any professional purpose associated with HA research.
ISHAS Trainee Members are welcome to apply, with a statement from the Trainee’s mentor in support of the application.
Applications will be considered all year round. Apply below.
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Past ISHAS Research Grant Awardees:
- 2024 – Irina Grigorieva (Cardiff University, UK) – Characterising the spatial and temporal distribution, and size, of HA in kidney sections
- 2023 – Carmela Ricciardelli (University of Adelaide, Australia) – Identification of novel proteins associated with HMW HA signalling in ovarian cancer
- 2023 – Rebecca Dodd (University of Manchester, UK) – Use of precision cut lung slices to investigate HA/HC•HA matrix formation
- 2023 – Dorothea Erxleben (Wake Forest University, USA) – Quantifying HC-HA in human biofluids for solid-state nanopore analysis
Past ISHAS Research Travel Grant Awardees:
- 2024 – Sudhir Verma (University of Houston, USA) – Characterizing the size and abundance of hyaluronan in the limbal stem cell niche
- 2023 – Sara Silva (University of Porto, Portugal) – Fabrication of perfusable 3D brain microvessels using 3D printing and HA as a biomaterial