International Visiting Scholarship
30 September, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET / 1 October, 2025 at 3:59 UTC
Formerly the International Traveling Scholarship
Purpose
The purpose of this award is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and techniques regarding heart and lung transplantation and the treatment of end stage heart and lung failure and to build relationships between individuals, institutions, and countries.
The Scholarships may be used to learn new techniques in the clinic, operating room, or laboratory or just to experience first-hand how others deal with challenging problems.
It is anticipated that each Scholarship will be for up to one month, however no absolute time is stipulated. Visits of less than 2 weeks will not be funded. The funding may be used for travel, accommodation, and/or subsistence for the recipient, with
a maximum of $100 per day for food and accommodations. The funding may not be used to cover other costs, such as accompanying family members or salary, nor to cover any associated costs borne by the recipient's home institution, such as for the
back-filling of clinical duties or for indirect costs/institutional overhead.
ALL members of the Society are eligible to apply.
Grant Details
The ISHLT will fund up to five International Visiting Scholarships each year. Each scholarship will be up to $6,000 USD.
The funding may be used for travel, accommodations, and/or subsistence for the recipient and/or for someone from the selected institution to travel to the recipient’s institution. The funding may not be used to cover costs for salary, accompanying family members, project-specific expenses at the host or recipient’s institution, or to cover any associated costs borne by the recipient's home institution (for example costs related to the back-filling of clinical duties or for indirect costs/institutional overhead).
Eligibility Requirements
- The applicant or the applicant's department or division head or the individual hosting the visit must be a member of the ISHLT in good standing at the time of application. The scholarship recipient must be a member of ISHLT at the time of funding.
- The applicant cannot be in a short-term position and must be (or have been) at their current institution for at least one year.
- The applicant must be employed (as staff, faculty, or trainee) at the institution from which the application will be submitted.
- The goal of the scholarship is to facilitate the international exchange of knowledge and skills. While travel to another institution within the same country is allowed, priority will be given to scholarship applicants traveling to international host institutions or having someone from the selected institution travel to their institution
- The applicant cannot be an industry employee.
- If the applicant has a relationship with industry, that relationship must be disclosed and vetted by members of the Grants Committee prior to application.
Funding Stipulations / Scholarship Policies
- The funded visit must begin within 6 months of notification that the recipient has been selected to receive the scholarship. If an extension is required, a request must be submitted in writing, using the extension request form.
- The duration of the funded visit must be at least 1 week.
- Scholarship funding will be made in multiple installments to the recipient’s home institution. The first installment (85% of funds) will be paid upon request. The second installment (15%) will be paid following receipt of a final report from the scholarship recipient.
- The scholarship recipient, the scholarship recipient's home institution, and the host institution agree that the funds will be expended for the purpose(s) described in the application; there will be no duplicate funding for items outlined in the submitted budget, and no portion of the scholarship will be used to pay for indirect costs or institutional overhead.
- There are no restrictions on additional funding to supplement the ISHLT scholarship.
- A final report detailing the funded experience, and what was accomplished and learned must be submitted to ISHLT within two months of the conclusion of the funding period. ISHLT may choose to publish the report with the permission of the awardee. The final report should also include an accounting of how the funds were expended. Unused funds must be returned to the ISHLT.
- ISHLT must be acknowledged as a funding source in all publications and presentations derived from the Scholarship via the following statement, "This work was supported by International Visiting Scholarship from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation." Copies of any such publications must be submitted to ISHLT.
- No individual may receive more than one scholarship per year.
