Member Benefits

Many society members ask themselves what they get for their membership dollar when joining an organization. For an AFMR member, the benefits are clear:

• Advocacy on behalf of medical investigators and researchers - the AFMR has direct Washington representation on Capitol Hill, and also works with other related societies to pool resources to get important messages directly to members of Congress
• Updates on Public Policy and Clinical Research Funding including regular AFMR email alerts and "call your Congress representative" notifications
• A complimentary print and online subscription to the Journal of Investigative Medicine, the AFMR’s official journal
• No page charges on publications in the Journal of Investigative Medicine for AFMR mebers
• A dedicated Members’ Only area on the AFMR website where members can update their records, access the journal, seek information on other AFMR members in their city or state, and obtain important grant and career information through an ever-expanding portal
• Opportunity to apply for a series of substantial Awards - including the AFMR Outstanding Investigator Award, Junior Physician Investigator Awards, the Henry Christian Awards, and AFMR Regional Scholar Awards
• Reduced registration fees at Regional Meetings as well as the AFMR National Meetings
• Notification of all upcoming abstract deadlines for important national and regional meetings
• Opportunity to present and showcase your work at Regional and National Meetings as well as to present symposia at Experimental Biology each year - a forum for translational research