CROI invites researchers who are postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, undergraduate students, and new faculty (of 1 year or less) in the fields of HIV, as well as hepatitis viruses, SARS-CoV-2, and mpox, and their related conditions, to apply for a New Investigator Scholarship.

 

Scholarship Activity Sign-up is open

New Investigator Scholarship awardees can access their Meet the Luminary and Poster Walk session sign-ups through the CROI Dashboard. The deadline for sign up is February 17, 2025. All activities are first come, first serve and are limited in the number of participants.

Scholarship submission is closed

Scholarships are submitted through the CROI 2025 Dashboard, with a October 1, 2024, deadline. A CROI Conference Account is required for scholarship submission. To login to your account or to create an account, click here.

Please refer to the Dates and Deadlines page for all submission deadlines and key milestones.

Technical Issues: Technical issues preventing submission of an scholarship must be communicate by email to CROIscholarships@iasusa.org prior to the submission deadline. Notification of an inability to submit due to technical issues received after the deadline cannot generally be addressed.

Important Dates

Visit the Important Dates and Deadlines page for more information on key dates for scholarship application submission and disposition notices.

Scholarship Details

Scholarship Award 

Registration 

Recipients of the New Investigator Scholarship award will receive complimentary conference registration.

Travel 

Recipients of a New Investigator Scholarship award will receive up to US $750 (US/Canada) or US $1500 (international) toward air, rail, or bus transportation to and from the conference at the lowest fare for economy travel.

Hotel 

Discounted hotel rates are available to New Investigator Scholarship recipients on a first-come, first-served basis. Scholarship recipients are responsible for the cost of their hotel, and all attendees must book a hotel through the CROI registration and housing system.  

Scholarship Criteria 

Scholarships are awarded based on the quality of the abstract, application, and letter of recommendation. New Investigator Scholarship recipients must be the presenting author of an accepted abstract.

All scholarship recipients are required to participate in the full conference, including the Program Committee Workshop for New Investigators and Trainees. At the close of the conference, scholarship recipients must have completed the daily and overall conference evaluations.

Scholarship recipients who believe that they may not be able to commit to participating in the entire conference can choose 1 of the following 3 options:

  1. Adjust other conflicting commitments, participate in the full conference, and maintain the scholarship
  2. Decline the scholarship, pay the full registration fee, present their work, and not be required to participate in the full conference
  3. Choose not to participate in the full conference and assign a coauthor to present the work at the conference

Scholarship recipients are limited to a total of 3 scholarships. Due to the transition of CROI 2020 from an in-person to a virtual conference, scholarships received that year will not be included in the consideration of the number of scholarships the applicant has received.

How to Apply

New Investigator Scholarship applications should be submitted as part of the abstract submission process through the CROI Abstract and Scholarship Submission system. The CROI Abstract and Scholarship Submission system person submitting this application must be the scholarship applicant. Applicants may submit only 1 type of CROI Scholarship (eg, New Investigator Scholarship, International Investigator Scholarship, or Community Educator Scholarship) application. 

The New Investigator scholarship application must include a letter of recommendation from a mentor or leadership from the applicant’s institution. The letter of recommendation should be placed on institutional letterhead and signed by the person providing the recommendation. The letter must be saved as a PDF file and uploaded by the scholarship applicant. 

The recommendation letter should include: 

  • The mentor’s full name, degree, title, and current academic affiliation 
  • Confirmation that the person providing the letter is the mentor of the New Investigator Scholarship applicant 
  • The length of time that the mentor has worked with the applicant 
  • The applicant’s academic background: current position and title, highest level of education (eg, doctoral, master’s, or bachelor’s degree), and year(s) and from what institution(s) the applicant received their degree(s). If the applicant is an undergraduate student, include the year and institution the applicant will receive their bachelor’s degree 
  • Confirmation that the applicant meets the award requirements: 

           – The applicant is a postdoctoral fellow, graduate student, or undergraduate student 

           – The applicant is the presenting author of an abstract submitted to the conference 

           – The applicant plans to participate in the entire conference 

  • A summary of the applicant’s qualifications and research prospects in a brief statement of recommendation