SNS-Neurosurgeon-Scientist Training Program (NSTP) Fund
Fund Purpose: To support research awards to neurosurgical residents selected for the Society of Neurological Surgeons’ Neurosurgeon-Scientist Training Program (NSTP). Funding may also cover travel awards.
The Society of Neurological Surgeons (SNS) is the oldest neurosurgical professional society in the world. Its creation by Harvey Cushing in 1920 represents the foundational moment for neurological surgery as an independent specialty of medicine.
Today, The Society comprises U.S. academic department chairs, residency program directors, and other educational leaders; serves as the representative body for neurosurgery to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education; and sponsors the Association of Residency Administrators in Neurological Surgery.
The Neurosurgeon-Scientist Training Program (NSTP) was established to increase the pool of neurosurgery residents conducting research and to enhance their success rate in becoming independent neurosurgeon-scientists. Additional research by clinician-scientist neurosurgeons is critical to the fundamental discovery that advances new methods of care and new cures.
The NSTP serves as a formal mentored research program for those neurosurgery residents who are beginning a protected research year or who have already completed their protected research year. The primary goal of this program is to provide participants with the skills, mentorship, education, and experience needed to successfully compete for individual research funding (e.g., NIH K award and R01 grants) and launch productive research careers. Awardees have access to neurosurgeon-scientist mentors through a national network organization and will participate in the Annual NINDS UE5 workshop.
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