AED Scholarship & Research Grant Information

AED is pleased to offer the following travel scholarships and research grants. All applicants must fill out the AED common scholarship/grant application form and complete specific application requirements for the AED scholarship or grant for which you're applying. Specific application requirements can be obtained by clicking on the title of each award below. To support the AED scholarship and grants, donate to the 2010-2011 AED Scholarship Campaign.

Travel Scholarships

Research Grants


Travel Scholarships

AED Clinician Scholarship Program
The Academy for Eating Disorders has established a Clinician Scholarship program to help defray annual meeting costs for clinicians and educators who otherwise might not be able to afford conference fees. The intent of this scholarship program is to provide the applicant with knowledge and skills that will then be disseminated by the applicant in his/her community.

NIMH/AED Student/Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowship Program
The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) funds students and those in the early stages of their career to attend AED's International Conference on Eating Disorders as monies allow. AED plans to offer this program for each ICED through 2011.

ANZAED/AED Young Investigator Travel Scholarship
The ANZAED/AED Young Investigator Travel Scholarship is a joint initiative between the sister organizations to encourage Antipodeans early in their research career to present their work at the 2011 ICED.

Research Grants

The purpose of the program is to support innovative and cutting-edge research conducted by student members of AED.

AED Student Research Grants
The AED Student Research Grants support innovative and cutting-edge research conducted by student members of the AED. These grants can be used to support any aspect of a student research project, including (but not limited to) participant payments, support staff salaries, and costs related to study assessments and/or database management. These awards serve the dual purpose of enhancing the training of our student members and advancing the science in our field by funding the most innovative and promising research.

TJ's Fund for Eating Disorder Research
TJ's Fund is named in honor of Thomas Lee Warschefsky, II. TJ battled anorexia nervosa for eight years. TJ succumbed to anorexia nervosa and passed away on Valentine's Day in 2007 at the age of 22. Throughout TJ's battle with anorexia nervosa, his family discovered that little was known about its causes or effective treatments. TJ's family developed TJ's Fund to promote a search for a cure through biological research related to the cause and/or treatment of eating disorders. Biological research has made great strides in understanding the development and treatment of other serious forms of mental illness such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. TJ's Fund is dedicated to making similar discoveries in the biological bases and treatment of eating disorders and improving the lives of its sufferers.