By Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine
SBSM will present the following Scholarships and Honor Awards at the 2026 Annual Meeting to be held in Chicago, IL, March 11-14 – Apply Now
 

*Deadline for all award applications is November 21st, 2025

 
The Inclusivity for Impact, Equity, and Engagement (I2EyE) Scholar Cohort Program aims to contribute to SBSM’ transformation into a scientific enterprise that welcomes, makes space for, serves, respects, and learns from underrepresented talent trained in health-related sciences, and engaged in clinical and research areas aligned with the SBSM mission.
SBSM MacLean Travel Award
The MacLean Scholar awards were created to enable two neuroscience trainees to attend the SBSM Annual Meeting and interact with the recipient of the Paul D. MacLean Award for Outstanding Neuroscience Research in Psychosomatic Medicine.
SBSM MD Travel Award
Applicant must be medical student or higher, through junior faculty, and the program will take place in Seattle, in conjunction with the 2026 SBSM Annual Meeting. Recipients will receive career mentoring and advice and will receive complimentary meeting registration and 1 complimentary night at the host hotel. [Note: MD senior students through junior faculty who desire a research-focused experience should apply for the Developing Investigator Program. Applying to both programs is allowed.]
Between 10 and 24 SBSM Scholar Awards are presented to outstanding abstract submissions where the first author of an accepted abstract is either a student, resident, or fellow. Each award provides monetary assistance for the SBSM conference fees, travel, and hotel accommodations.
SBSM Developing Investigator Program (Formerly Young Investigator Colloquium)
The Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (SBSM) is pleased to accept applications for the 2026 class of the Developing Investigator Program (Formerly Young Investigator Colloquium). The purpose of this half-day program is to bring together the expertise of senior mentors paired with postgraduate “rising star” trainees (i.e., physician fellows, residents, postdoctoral fellows, and early career faculty who recently completed training). The selected trainees will be paired with a mentor that share similar interests.
The LGBT Health Scholar award was created to enable trainees dedicated to research and practice on LGBT health and wellness to attend the Annual Meeting. The LGBT Health Scholar winners will receive 1 complimentary night at the host hotel to attend the meeting.

The Dr. Martica Hall Travel Award Scholarships recognize outstanding sleep medicine research abstracts presented at the SBSM Annual Meeting. Two recipients will receive 1 complimentary night at the host hotel to attend the meeting. 2 awards will be given to the top scoring abstracts on sleep medicine.
Honor Awards
SBSM Distinguished Scientist Award
The SBSM Distinguished Scientist Award was created to recognize important and protracted contributions made by senior scientists and physicians in any research field consistent with the interests of SBSM. In addition, nominees should be members of the Society and would be expected to have contributed substantially over the years to its aims and goals. The recipient must attend the Annual Meeting.
The Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (SBSM) Cousins Center Global Outreach Awards are intended to assist with travel, hotel accommodations and meeting registration fees to the SBSM Annual Meeting. The award will be given to one applicant residing in developing nations with the highest abstract scores.
The Dr. Martica Hall Award recognizes an exceptional individual in the sleep medicine field. The awardee will be expected to give a talk at the SBSM Annual Meeting; and also meet with Dr. Martica Hall travel award scholarship recipients.
Fellow Status in the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (FSBSM) is designed to recognize sustained excellence in scholarship and/or professional contributions to the field of psychosomatic science and commitment to the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine among members who are mid-career and beyond. Through FSBSM, we seek to recognize, honor, and sustain the engagement of members in advancing psychosomatic science and serving the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine.
The Herbert Weiner Early Career Award is intended to identify individuals who, early in their career, have contributed significantly to the field of psychosomatic medicine and show substantial promise of continued meritorious academic accomplishments in the field.

Patricia R. Barchas Award in Sociophysiology
The Patricia R. Barchas Award in Sociophysiology was established in 1999. The purpose is to memorialize Patricia Barchas by furthering the field of sociophysiology, the study of the reciprocal relationships that could lead to long-term change both in social behavior and in physiology.

The Donald Oken Fellowship
The Oken Fellow typically is someone who has never attended an SBSM Annual Meeting – a goal of this award is to introduce the Society to someone unfamiliar with SBSM and our community, and to nurture a relationship that benefits both the Fellow and the Society’s membership through the sharing of experiences and involvement with research – both clinical and basic.

The Paul D. MacLean Award
The Paul D. MacLean Award for Outstanding Neuroscience Research in Psychosomatic Medicine. Paul MacLean was a physician whose visionary neuroscientific research career at Yale Medical School and NIMH was inspired by his recognition of the importance of emotion in clinical medicine and everyday life. In 1949 he hypothesized that psychosomatic disorders arose from impairment in communication between the limbic system and neocortex. This award is intended to honor Dr. MacLean and promote the line of research that he created on emotion, the brain and physical disease.
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