Alumni News and Events

Funding Opportunities

Pilot Grants to Explore Use of the AHA Protein Binding Atlas to Discover Novel Protein Interactions
Proposal deadline: May 1, 2025

For innovative pilot projects aimed at predicting and understanding protein-protein and protein-small molecule interactions involved in key biological processes associated with cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic diseases, including obesity. Proposed projects are encouraged to utilize the AHA Protein Portal.

FAHA Applications

Apply to become a FAHA by Thursday, July 10, 2025

AHA Professional Members may apply to be elected as a Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA). FAHA is an honorific designation that recognizes scientific and professional accomplishments and contributions, volunteer leadership and service supporting the overall AHA mission.

See details to become a FAHA

Council Awards and Lectures

The AHA scientific councils give awards of financial stipends, recognize special presentations and provide travel funding to attend AHA scientific meetings. Each council sponsors awards for its members throughout the year:

Featured Alumni Stories

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Courtney Glavis Bloom

Dr. Courtney Glavis-Bloom, a neuroscientist at the Salk Institute, presented a TEDx talk about her groundbreaking research on the neurobiological changes that occur with aging, and their link to cognitive decline and resilience. Her work is largely supported by the AHA-Allen Initiative in Brain Health and Cognitive Impairment.

Watch the video

Vijayasree V. Giridharan, M.Pharm, PhD

Assistant Professor at the Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Neuropsychiatric consequences on COVID-19 survivors - role of vascular damage and gut microbiome

Thanks to the support of the American Heart Association-Second Century Implementation Science Award, Dr. Vijayasree V. Giridharan's laboratory has been established as a hub for understanding the role of vascular complications in infection-induced long-term cognitive and neuropsychiatric effects.

Kevin N. Sheth, MD

Director, Yale Center for Brain & Mind Health
Vice Chair for Clinical & Translational Research
Departments of Neurology & Neurosurgery
Yale School of Medicine

“AHA awards often funded our highest risk and most innovative projects, several of which have now moved to real world application – supporting new technologies, addressing health disparities, improving the quality of care – all in the interest of improved brain and heart health.”