Sleep Research Society

The Sleep Research Society is an organization that promotes the science of sleep and related disorders. Additionally, the SRS is dedicated to the training and education of future sleep researchers

Organization

The organization traces its roots to a meeting in 1961 of sleep researchers in Chicago, IL. The group adopted an official name, the Association for the Psychophysiological Study of Sleep, in 1964. The name was changed to the Sleep Research Society in 1982. The acronym APSS is still in use today to refer to the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, which is a partnership between the SRS and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. The society currently has over 1,200 members who are members of one of four sections: Basic Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, Sleep and Behavior, and Sleep Disorders. Leadership of the society is provided by an elected 12-member board of directors and standing committees. In order to foster programmatic continuity and momentum, the terms of SRS presidents was changed from one to two years in 2014.

Foundation

The Sleep Research Society Foundation was founded in 2005. This foundation provides funding for pilot grants to sleep researchers. The J. Christian Gillin, M.D. Research Grant provides funding to junior faculty while the Elliott D. Weitzman, M.D. Research Grant provides funding to novel and innovated research.

Publications

The Journal SLEEP' is a monthly peer reviewed journal, the official publication of the SRS, and the benchmark international journal for sleep and circadian science. The Editor-in-Chief is Allan I. Pack, MD. In 2020, SRS launched SLEEP Advances, a Gold Open Access companion journal to SLEEP in partnership with the Australasian Sleep Association. It includes high-quality and replicable basic, translational, and clinical research in sleep and circadian science.
The SRS launched a series of podcasts in 2022 organized and moderated by Jesse Cook, PhD from the University of Wisconsin. The series is designed to highlight research advances, career opportunities, other sleep research developments.

Meeting

The SLEEP annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies is a yearly scientific meeting held in partnership between SRS and AASM. This event aims to bring together scientists, physicians and other clinical staff in order to bring new developments to patients. Approximately 5,000 people attend each year to hear presentations on the latest research. It is the largest meeting in the United States solely devoted to sleep, circadian rhythms and sleep medicine and is composed of scientific sessions, poster presentations, and an exhibition hall. Abstracts for presentations are published in a supplemental issue of the journal SLEEP.