Applications for this grant are now closed.
The maximum award amounts are:
$5,000 for Undergraduate/Medical/Graduate School Students
$7,500 for Resident or Post-Doctoral/Fellows
The Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) “Scholars in Sexuality Research Grants Program” supports junior investigators conducting research into human sexuality and sexual wellness. It is the intent of this program to attract junior clinicians and researchers to the field of sexual medicine and to support their early studies.
- Applications will be accepted from graduate or medical students, residents in graduate medical education training programs, and post-doctoral/post-residency fellows.
- Applications will be accepted from researchers representing diverse backgrounds including, but not limited to: urology, psychology, psychiatry, gynecology, internal medicine, geriatrics, public health, physiology, genetics, molecular biology, social work, law, etc.
- Research projects must be carried out within the United States or Canada to qualify for funding.
- Applicant’s mentor must be an SMSNA member.
- All funded applicants will receive membership in the SMSNA at no charge for 2 years.
Past Recipients
Pranjal Agrawal
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Exploring the Phenotype of Women with the Diagnosis of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections: Determining the Associations of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections with Dyspareunia, Sexual Dysfunction, Pelvic Pain Conditions, and the Impact on Therapy Prescribing
Julie Bloom
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Optimal Combination Therapy for Pelvic Floor and Sexual Function after Pelvic RT: Combination Silicone Vaginal Dilator Use and Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy
Lucille Cheng
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Evaluating the Impact of Socioeconomic and Political Events on Patients’ Vasectomy Perspectives
Tommy Jiang
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Use of MRI-Guided Radiotherapy to Reduce Radiation-Induced Sexual Dysfunction
Priya Kohli
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Evaluation of Sexual Education Needs in Spina Bifida Adolescents and Correlation between Sexual Satisfaction with Depression and Anxiety
Grace Sollender
University of California, Los Angeles
The Dilemma of the Adolescent Varicocele: a Qualitative Exploration of the Patient and Family Perspective
