Wylie Scholar Program

Wylie Scholar Program is sponsored by Foundation to Advance Vascular Cures. The Wylie Scholar award is designed to support outstanding young vascular surgeon-scientists who are dedicated to an academic career combining their clinical practice with original, innovative research.

Wylie Scholar Application | Foundation To Advance Vascular Cures Wylie Scholar Application T he 2026 Wylie Scholar Award application period is open. Questions about the award and application submissions should be sent to grants@vascularcures. org .

The application is due on April 13, 2026 and the announcement will be made in June. The 2026 Foundation to Advance Vascular Cures Wylie Scholar award is a 1-year, $50,000 grant designed to support outstanding young vascular surgeon-scientists who are dedicated to an academic career combining their clinical practice with original, innovative research. The award may be subject to renewal for a second year.

The Foundation is committed to advancing the field through the development of the next generation of leading vascular surgeon-scientists and envisions that this award will enable the awardee to do impactful vascular research early in their career, thereby helping the recipient to qualify for independent funding from national health agencies and other state and foundation awards.

The 2026 Wylie Scholar will be given the opportunity to be paired with a former Wylie Scholar who will serve as a mentor/advisor and provide research project guidance. ​ Download Wylie Scholar Application The award may be used to support research in the following areas: Basic science, translational, clinical research, patient-centered research, outcomes/health services research, teaching, community service, and patient care.

Please note that the Foundation to Advance Vascular Cures does not pay indirect costs. Candidates must hold a full-time faculty appointment as a vascular surgeon with active privileges at a medical school accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education in the United States or the Committee for the Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools in Canada. The candidate must be an active, practicing clinical vascular surgeon.

The following conditions must be met: The candidate must have completed a Vascular Surgery Board of the American Board of Surgery or Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada approved Vascular Surgery training program, and be board-eligible or board-certified in Vascular Surgery. The candidate must be within 3 years of their first faculty appointment at the time of application.

The candidate must be confirmed faculty at the time of application. The candidate must be an active, practicing clinical vascular surgeon. The candidate must present convincing evidence of rigorous research training and significant research accomplishments to date.

The Wylie Scholar Program is intended to support outstanding vascular surgeon scientists in the initial phases of their academic careers to accomplish the groundwork needed to be competitive for national career development awards or other independent funding.

To be eligible to apply, at the time of application, the candidate must not be funded or have notice of funding that will start after the time of application by any of the career development awards listed below or by any other single or multi-year award that exceeds $50,000: Veterans Affairs CDA or RDA or alternatively named program with similar level of research funding American Heart Association, or similar extramural research funding agencies Individual K awards (KL2 institutional awards are not disqualifiers) Up and until the award notice is made, the candidate must disclose prior and existing individual awards and/or funds received to support their research.

Failure to disclose will be grounds for rescission of the award. Concomitant awards similar in size to the Wylie Scholar will be considered on an individual basis.

Examples include but are not limited to: Awards from professional societies such as the American College of Surgeons Young faculty awards via professional societies NIH small grant program R03 In the event that an investigator has been given an award or notice of an award that has substantive overlap, the investigator is required to disclose such overlap.

The candidate must disclose any and all grant applications that have been submitted that run concurrently with the Wylie Scholar Award. Prior to the initial disbursement of funds, the awardee must disclose any new funding received after the application process.

The amount of current and previously awarded funding will be taken into consideration by the Wylie Scholar Award Review Committee and may be grounds for rescinding the award, as the award is designed to provide crucial early funding to promising surgeon scientists. The Committee will review all disclosures and determine continued eligibility on a case-by-case basis.

The candidate must have a research mentor who will be an additional resource for his or her research. The Chairman of the Department of Surgery must guarantee that the candidate will have 25% protected time available to devote to the research investigation, and to commit to provide matching support in the form of funds, facilities, equipment and/or resources to execute the proposed studies.

These resources can be shared with the candidate’s mentor, but their availability and location should be clearly described. The 2026 Wylie Scholar is required to participate in a Foundation to Advance Vascular Cures event during their research grant tenure at which they will present their work and meet with the Foundation’s CMO to support their scientific mentorship and training.

The Foundation will discuss and decide with the awardee which event is most appropriate. Up to $2,000 of the annual stipend may be used for travel expenses and two nights of lodging; in the event that the awardee does not attend an event, the funds allocated for travel will be forfeited. If funds are available, the 2026 Wylie Scholar can reapply for a second year award.