Anesthesia Awards & Grant Funding Programs
From its inception in 1922, the IARS Mission Statement has been "To further progress and research in all phases of anesthesia." To that end, in 1983 the IARS established its Anesthesia Award & Grant Funding Program which, to date has awarded over $8,000,000 to fund 125 projects in anesthesia. In a 1998 member survey it was confirmed that financial support from other sources is disappearing and that IARS' continued support of Education and Research is crucial to the specialty. The current IARS Awards Program includes three distinct Awards.
IARS Members Are Eligible to Apply For:
$500,000
Frontiers in Anesthesia Research Award - Created "...to foster innovation and creativity by an individual researcher in the field of Anesthesiology."
$80,000
Clinical Scholar Research Awards - Created to further the understanding of anesthesiology and related sciences clinical practice through clinical investigations.