Learn more about additional awards for graduate and medical students, faculty, clinicians and researchers! Please visit the websites mentioned below for more information.

  • ASN Science Policy Fellowships (Application Deadline: December 19, 2025): ASN is pleased to offer two (2) one-year Fellowships to graduate/professional school students, Early Career I members (0-5 years post terminal degree), postdoctoral trainees, or medical intern. The intent of the Science Policy Fellowship is to allow for an expanded understanding of current nutrition policy issues and initiatives. The Science Policy Fellowship provides recipients with the opportunity to gain an enhanced perspective on public policy issues related to nutrition and facilitates the acquisition of skills and tools necessary to become well-informed advocates for nutrition research and policy.

Submit an abstract for NUTRITION 2026 in Washington, DC to be considered for the following opportunities! ASN membership is required to be eligible for NUTRITION 2026 award competitions and abstract recognition awards.

The deadline to submit an abstract for NUTRITION 2026 is March 9, 2026.

More details about how to submit an abstract and apply to be considered for a NUTRITION 2026 award competition or abstract recognition award will be available in October 2025.

  • Clinical Emerging Leaders Award Competition
  • Diversity in Nutrition Oral Competition for Early Career Investigators
  • DJPJ (Douglas J. Paddon-Jones) Trainee Achievement Awards
  • Early Career Research Award Competition
  • Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Science Poster Competition
  • George Bray Obesity Research Student Awards, endowed by Dr. George A. Bray and Marilyn M. Bray 
  • Global Nutrition Early Career Scholar Award
  • Graduate Student Research Awards Competition
  • Nutrition Translation Award Competition for Early Career Investigators
  • Postdoctoral Research Award Competition, endowed by IFF
  • Robert Suskind and Leslie Lewinter-Suskind Pediatric Nutrition Student Awards, endowed by Dr. Robert Suskind and Leslie Lewinter-Suskind  
  • Student Interest Group (SIG) Three-Minute Thesis Award Competition