The AASM Foundation and the Hypersomnia Foundation are pleased to announce a partnership to jointly fund a 2026 Strategic Research Grant (Category I) of up to $250,000. This grant will support investigator-initiated projects that advance the diagnosis, clinical management, and/or treatment of idiopathic hypersomnia [...]
The AASM Foundation and Wake Up Narcolepsy (WUN) are pleased to announce a partnership to jointly fund a 2026 Strategic Research Grant (Category II) of up to $100,000. This grant will support investigator-initiated projects that advance the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of narcolepsy. The [...]
Stephanie Griggs, Ph.D., RN is an Assistant Professor in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. Tell us about your sleep research interests. I am interested in the role of multiple dimensions of sleep health (including the circadian timing [...]
The AASM Foundation recognizes that our vision of healthier lives through better sleep is impossible without the tremendous work of the sleep research community. Increasing the pipeline of physicians to sleep physicians is important to us. That’s why we go a step further than [...]
Insomnia is an issue that the AASM Foundation takes very seriously. For Insomnia Awareness Night 2022, the AASM Foundation highlights the impact of insomnia in people's lives, as well as what it has done and will continue to do to support insomnia research. [...]
The AASM Foundation is committed to developing the careers of sleep and circadian investigators by increasing support for sleep researchers. To meet this goal, the AASM Foundation has established research career development grants to assist sleep researchers at various stages of their career. Applications [...]
David Kuhlmann, MD, joined the AASM Foundation Board of Directors in 2021. Kuhlmann received his medical degree from the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas. He completed a residency in Neurology at the University of Indiana in Indianapolis. Kuhlmann is board certified [...]
Ariel A. Williamson, PhD, DBSM, (pronouns: she/her/hers) is a psychologist in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. How [...]
The AASM Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2022-2023 Sleep Research Program for Advancing Careers (SOAR), aimed at increasing the number of early-career investigators who successfully apply for external sleep research funding. By the end of the program, fellows of SOAR will [...]
The AASM Foundation congratulates the twenty-three early career researchers selected to participate in the 14th annual Young Investigators Research Forum, taking place virtually March through May 2022, with in-person meetings in April and June. This competitive research training program provides intense career-building education to early [...]
