The IASP Sex, Gender, Race, and Pain Special Interest Group is excited to announce the Early Career Investigator and Partnership Grants. This grant aims to support Early Career Investigators and Partners of the Sex, Gender, Race, and Pain SIG by providing additional resources to enhance career development and work in the SIG’s priority areas.
Priority areas
- Support seed funding to research projects in advancing sex, gender, and racial disparities in pain care.
- Support investigators to develop and strengthen meaningful relationships and research collaborations with diverse local communities and people with lived experience of pain, enabling research that is of relevance to advancing sex, gender, and racial disparities in pain care. Priority will be given to early-career investigators and applicants from low- and middle-income countries.
- Proof-of-concept experiments to catalyze future grant applications.
- Domestic travel for access to specialized equipment.
- Domestic travel to workshops/seminars for training, e.g., leadership skills, professional skills, or commercialization.
- Travel and registration costs to attend domestic or international conferences.
Eligibility
Applicant and/or their mentor/supervisor must be a member of the Sex, Gender and Race SIG.
Funding details
- Up to $2000 USD per grant
- Up to 4 recipients:
- 1 Masters or PhD student
- 1 postdoctoral fellow or early career researcher (0-5 years post-terminal degree)
- 1 applicant from a Low/Middle Income Country (as defined by the World Bank)
- 1 applicant applying with a community partner
- Funds must be spent within one year of receipt
Application guidelines
- The application is limited to approximately 500 words, written in English, and should:
- Provide details about the applicant, their supervisor/mentor, career-stage, and career plans.
- Provide contact information for the applicant’s institutional grants office for administration of the funds if awarded.
- Briefly describe the research, and the impact of receiving the grant on the applicant’s career development.
- Describe how the research will align with the priority areas of the SIG.
- Indicate how the grant will be used, including a budget and justification for the grant amount sought.
- Include an up-to-date short CV for the applicant (2 pages maximum, any format).
- For those applying in the community partnership stream, a letter support from community partner(s) should be uploaded.
- Each of these components should be included in a single PDF and uploaded at the link below.
Mentorship opportunity
To support applicants who do not have access to appropriate mentorship and/or who are applying from limited-resource institutions, we will be hosting two grant-writing workshops (content will be the same, two workshops scheduled to accommodate different time zones, and recordings will be sent to all who register). Workshop details and registration links below:
Workshop option #1 (accommodating Asian and Oceanian time zones)
- Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 5:00pm PST/8:00pm EST
- Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 6:30am IST/10:00am JST/noon AEDT/2:00pm NZDT
Workshop option #2 (accommodating North American, South American, European, and African time zones)
Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 7:00am PST/10:00am EST/3:00pm GMT/4:00pm CET
Reporting
The recipients will be required to submit a report on the outcome of the grant using a report template provided by the SIG.
The recipient will be invited to present on the work that the grant supported at a SIG webinar and/or IASP World Congress on Pain SIG workshop.
Submission
Application Deadline: 15 January 2026