Scholarship Announcement

Applications are being accepted through February 28, 2025 for one of two fellowship opportunities -- Tibetree-Tibet / Cheezheng Acupuncture Research Fellowship and Zhongke Health International Acupuncture Research Fellowship.

Note: We will continue accepting applications beyond the deadline for reduced-registration rate fellowships, but travel stipends are no longer available.

ABOUT SAR’s CONFERENCE

SAR's 2025 conference is designed to be an innovative event that attracts a global audience of acupuncture researchers, practitioners, educators, students, policy makers, and others with an interest in evidence-based acupuncture.  The 2025 conference program will contain multiple plenary lectures that will directly address current basic, clinical, and translational research in acupuncture.  The program will also include workshops and presentations of original research, in acupuncture and allied traditional East Asian modalities, including clinical trials; basic science; and research methodology, which will be presented by members of the national and international research communities as oral and poster presentations. 

STUDENT AND JUNIOR PRACTITIONER/RESEARCHER FELLOWSHIPS

A limited number of partial scholarship (registration fee reduced to $250) and travel awards are available to assist junior practitioners/researchers and students in attending the event by helping to offset expenses related to the conference.  (Notes:  For those who are awarded travel reimbursements, up to $500 USD travel reimbursements will be mailed out within 3 weeks following the event once we receive your travel receipts.  You must request a reimbursement form at the conference registration desk, which should accompany your receipts so that we know where to send payment.  If you reside outside of the U.S., please note that on your application so that we can make alternative reimbursement arrangements by bank wire transfer.) One year of SAR membership is included as part of awarded fellowships.

 

CRITERIA

Scholarships are limited to applications who meet one of these criteria:

  • Student engaged in a master’s or doctorate level program or training with an accredited university or Chinese medical school, though other student levels would also be considered based on overall merit of their application
  • Junior practitioner working under the supervision of a senior practitioner or principal investigator with a demonstrated interest in learning more about acupuncture research to support an evidence-based practice
  • Senior practitioner with “junior researcher”-level interest in acupuncture research

Current conference registrants are NOT eligible to receive registration fee scholarships or travel awards, so please wait to register until you have received notification about your application status.  Students or junior practitioner/researchers who have been approved to present an abstract orally or as a poster abstract at the conference will receive highest priority.

Fellowships will be awarded based on each application’s demonstration of the following qualifications (not all qualifications are required…simply provide as much information along these lines so that our Scholarship Committee may evaluate your application in relation to others we receive):

  • Letter of recommendation (this item is required to be provided by either a professor, senior researcher, or senior practitioner);
  • A list of presentations or projects related to acupuncture research conducted within the past three years;
  • A list of publications or papers where the applicant is listed as an author;
  • Any other activities demonstrating your commitment and/or accomplishments related to acupuncture research.
  • List of your degrees (OMD, DOAM etc).

APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 28, 2025  Scholarship applicants will be notified by March 7, 2025 and will be given a registration discount code to register for the conference online, reducing registration fees to $250.  We encourage submitting applications as early as possible.

(We will continue accepting applications beyond the deadline for reduced-registration rate fellowships, but travel stipends are no longer available.)

DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION FORM HERE.

QUESTIONS? CONTACT:  Laura Triplett: [email protected]