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Awards, Grants & Honors

AMP is pleased to offer a number of prestigious awards for outstanding work in the field of molecular diagnostics. These awards are designed to assist, support, and honor members of the molecular diagnostics community.  If you have questions about these awards please contact us by email.


AMP Recognition
Awards
Trainee
Awards
Technologist
Awards
Practicing Pathologists & Laboratorians Awards
International
Awards/Grants

AMP Recognition Awards

  • AMP Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics
    AMP's highest award, the AMP Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics recognizes lifetime pioneering and special achievements by professionals in the fields of molecular biology, molecular pathology, pathology, genetics, microbiology and basic medical sciences, especially as these achievements relate to molecular diagnostics and molecular medicine.
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  • AMP Jeffrey A. Kant Leadership Award
    The AMP Jeffrey A. Kant Leadership Award is AMP's highest award given to an AMP member for exceptional leadership in advancing the mission and goals of the Association for Molecular Pathology. This award is bestowed each year during the Business and Awards Session of the Annual Meeting & Expo.
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  • AMP Meritorious Service Award
    The AMP Meritorious Service Award recognizes an AMP member for particularly estimable service to the organization. The Recipient has demonstrated exceptional dedication and effort, over time and often behind-the-scenes, to provide exceptional service to AMP and its membership. In addition, the Recipient generally also provides especially notable service to the molecular pathology profession. The award is not necessarily given annually, but only when it is determined that service exists that warrants this special recognition. More than one recipient may be acknowledged if warranted.
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Trainee Awards

  • Young Investigator Poster Award
    AMP honors the best posters submitted by AMP member trainees with the Young Investigator Award.
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  • AMP Global Young Investigator Poster Awards
    The AMP Global Young Investigator Poster Awards recognizes the best abstracts submitted by trainees or early career technicians or laboratory scientists who are first authors and who present outstanding basic or applied research in poster format. This award is only offered for the AMP International meetings, please refer to the event website for more information.
  • AMP Global Young Investigator Travel Awards
    The AMP Global Young Investigator Travel Awards provide travel assistance to the AMP International meeting to help nurture the next generation of molecular professionals in laboratory medicine. This award is only offered for the AMP International meetings, please refer to the event website for more information.
  • International Trainee Travel Award
    The AMP International Trainee Travel Award provides travel assistance to the AMP Annual Meeting to selected international AMP member trainees (Residents, Fellows, and Students) residing and employed outside the United States who do not receive travel support from their institutions.
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  • US Based Trainee Travel Awards

    The AMP Trainee Travel Award provides up to three (3) selected AMP member trainees, who live and work in the U.S., complimentary registration and up to $1,500 travel reimbursement assistance to the Annual Meeting & Expo.
    Preference is given to trainees with an accepted abstract and to those without institutional support for meeting registration.
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  • Underrepresented in Medicine (URM) Travel Awards
    AMP is pleased to offer travel awards for individuals that are underrepresented in medicine in the United States. Per the Association of American Medical Colleges, these individuals will be from "...racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population."  Click "More Information" for complete details.
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Technologist Awards

  • Technologist Poster Award 

    AMP honors the three best posters submitted by AMP member non-doctoral technologists or medical technologists with the Technologist Award.
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  • Technologist Travel Award

    The AMP Technologist Travel Award provides travel assistance to the Annual Meeting & Expo to selected AMP member technologists who do not receive travel support from their institutions.
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  • Underrepresented in Medicine (URM) Travel Awards

    AMP is pleased to offer travel awards for individuals that are underrepresented in medicine in the United States. Per the Association of American Medical Colleges, these individuals will be from "...racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population."  Click "More Information" for complete details.
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Practicing Pathologists & Laboratorians Awards

  • Underrepresented in Medicine (URM) Travel Awards
    AMP is pleased to offer travel awards for individuals that are underrepresented in medicine in the United States. Per the Association of American Medical Colleges, these individuals will be from "...racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population."  Click "More Information" for complete details.
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International Awards/Grants

  • AMP Global IMPACT Awards
    (International Molecular Pathology Award for Conference Travel)

    The AMP Global International Molecular Pathology Award for Conference Travel Awards are for applicants from lower-middle and low income countries as defined by the World Bank ClassificationsThis award is only offered for the AMP International meetings, please refer to the event website for more information.
  • International Membership Grant
    The AMP International Membership Grant is awarded each year to up to 5 non-U.S. laboratory professionals who would not otherwise have access to AMP services and activities due to limited financial resources in the applicant's local environment. Recipients of this grant will receive AMP membership for one calendar year as a Regular member and online access to AMP's journal, The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. This award will open in November. 
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  • International Trainee Travel Award
    The AMP International Trainee Travel Award provides travel assistance to the AMP Annual Meeting to selected international AMP member trainees (Residents, Fellows, and Students) residing and employed outside the United States who do not receive travel support from their institutions.
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  • AMP Global Young Investigator Poster Awards
    The AMP Global Young Investigator Poster Awards recognizes the best abstracts submitted by trainees or early career technicians or laboratory scientists who are first authors and who present outstanding basic or applied research in poster format. This award is only offered for the AMP International meetings, please refer to the event website for more information.
  • AMP Global Young Investigator Travel Awards
    The AMP Global Young Investigator Travel Awards provide travel assistance to the AMP International meeting to help nurture the next generation of molecular professionals in laboratory medicine. This award is only offered for the AMP International meetings, please refer to the event website for more information.
  • Underrepresented in Medicine (URM) Travel Awards
    AMP is pleased to offer travel awards for individuals that are underrepresented in medicine in the United States. Per the Association of American Medical Colleges, these individuals will be from "...racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population."  Click "More Information" for complete details.
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