The AUA offers a portfolio of mentored research training awards to recruit outstanding young investigators into urologic research and foster their career success.
The Research Scholar Program, our premier funding opportunity, provides $40,000 per year for one- and two-year mentored training for:
- Clinical and postdoctoral fellows who are no more than five years beyond completing a doctorate or residency
- Early career investigators who are in the first five years after beginning a faculty position
The 2020 Research Scholar Award competition is now closed. Please check back in summer 2020 for next year's competition.
Download the Program Announcement and Application Agreement
- 2020 Research Scholar Award Program Announcement [pdf]
- 2020 Research Scholar Award Application Agreement [pdf]
2020 Research Scholar Awards are sponsored by:
- AUA North Central Section (two awards)
- AUA Northeastern Section (one award)
- AUA South Central Section (one award)
- AUA Southeastern Section (two awards)
- AUA Western Section (one award)
- Chesapeake Urology Associates Sanford J. Siegel, MD Prostate Cancer Research Scholar Award
- Dornier MedTech, Inc. Award
- Endo Pharmaceuticals
- Endourological Society Award
- Endourological Society Raju Thomas, MD Award
- Indian American Urological Society Kalish Kedia, MD Award
- Indian American Urological Society Sakti Das, MD Award
- The Joseph Segura Scholarship in Endourology and Stone Management
- Robert J. Krane, MD Research Scholar Award
- Society for Urologic Oncology Award (three awards)
- Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine & Urogenital Reconstruction Hari Badlani Award
- Sexual Medicine Society of North America Award
View the listing of our recent Research Scholar Awards Recipients:
2020 – 2022, 2020 – 2021, 2019 – 2021, 2019 – 2020, 2018 – 2020