The Distinguished Scientist Award is the Sleep Research Society’s highest award and recognizes significant, original, and sustained scientific contributions to the sleep and circadian research field. This award honors a single prominent individual who has conducted influential basic, translational, clinical, or theoretical research spanning an entire career.

The Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award is presented to an individual(s) to recognize a specific, novel, and seminal research discovery that has significantly impacted the sleep and circadian research field.  This award honors a single scientist or up to three members of a scientific team most responsible for the design, conduct, and publication of the work.

The Mary A. Carskadon Outstanding Educator Award honors excellence in education in sleep and circadian research. This award honors an individual for their contributions to training sleep and circadian professionals and/or educating the general public.

This award recognizes an outstanding research effort by an early-stage investigator in the field of sleep research. The basis for evaluation of a candidate is a single, peer-reviewed publication reporting original research (not a review), supported by a senior investigator’s letter of recommendation that must address specific elements described below.

The SRS Foundation recognizes the challenges of transitioning from post-doctoral training to independent research funding. The goal of these mentored awards is to invest in promising early career researchers and assist with their transition into independence as junior investigators. The awards will be funded up to $50,000.

The Small Research Grant Program is designed to support the research of trainees and early career investigators who otherwise do not have the institutional resources to support new studies and/or do not have a sustained record of external funding. The Small Research Grant Program is intended to provide seed funding to support training and research to ultimately allow individuals to successfully apply for or complete career development grants (e.g. K-awards).

The SRSF Mentored Collaboration Grant was designed to link trainees with limited sleep/circadian mentoring options in their chosen field of interest to mentors that can provide rich, face-to-face opportunities in state-of-the-art research techniques and methods. The mentor-mentee relationship should extend beyond the face-to-face portion and, as appropriate, include career guidance via ongoing phone or web-based meetings over the course of the funded year.

The SRS and the SRS Foundation realize the need to provide support to trainees and early career investigators who would otherwise not be able to attend educational programs.

The SRS welcomes and benefits from scientists and researchers with a common interest in sleep and circadian rhythms from varying backgrounds, disciplines and countries. The SRS Diversity Membership Initiative aims to increase membership for trainees from underrepresented groups and increase the diversity of our membership and therefore the diversity in attendance at the SLEEP meeting.

The intent of the Infographic Contest is to promote sleep and circadian research through the creation of an Infographic (information graphic). Eligibility includes two categories: 1. Any individual or group of individuals enrolled in high school or in an undergraduate program; 2. Any current SRS member.