American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowships

The AHA Predoctoral Fellowship competition was just announced, and I noticed, while scrolling through last year's statistics, that Predocs had a whopping (for fellowships, anyway) 41 percent success rate. This makes it well worth your trouble to fill out one of these applications, if you're working on anything "closely or broadly related to cardiovascular function and diseases, stroke and cerebrovascular diseases, related basic and clinical biomedical sciences, bioengineering/biotechnology and public health programs, including related social and behavioral sciences, or related epidemiology."

Find out more here. There are two parts to the submission--electronic and paper. Electronic is due on Jan. 9, and the original plus three paper copies to the AHA offices on Jan. 15.