The AABB Foundation awards grants for investigator-initiated original research in all aspects of blood banking, transfusion medicine and biotherapies. Grant applications are evaluated on the basis of their scientific merit, relevance to and impact on transfusion medicine, focus and appropriateness to the scope of funding, and likelihood of yielding meaningful data. Research is open for topics such as Immunology, Hematology, Immunohematology, Infectious Diseases, Biotherapies and Patient Blood Management. An applicant must be a doctor (MD or PhD), medical technologist, transfusion medicine or biotherapies professional. The Foundation accepts early-career applicants worldwide. An early-career investigator is an investigator who has completed a terminal research degree or medical residency, whichever date is later, within the past 10 years of the grant application deadline and has not yet been awarded a substantial research grant. Clinical fellowship training in a medical specialty or subspecialty training in the years that follow the internship/residency period is not considered a part of the residency. Often the clinical fellowship period will consist of a mixture of clinical and research training. The time spent in research training will be considered as applicable toward the 10 years of research and research training. Please visit the award's website for more information about the program and the required materials for application.