Fellowships

Qualified pre-doctoral and post-doctoral students may apply for fellowships from various funding agencies. Among the largest source of fellowship opportunities is the NIH through the Ruth L. KirschsteinNational Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Individual Fellows. For general information, please see:

http://www.grants.nih.gov/training/F_files_nrsa.htm

For pre-doctoral fellowships (F31), please refer to:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-111.html

For pre-doctoral Diversity fellowships, please refer to:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-112.html

For post-doctoral fellowships (F32), please refer to:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-113.html

For individual senior fellowships (F33), please refer to:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-114.html

Training on the fellowship application process will be given each cycle. Please contact the Office of Research Administration for details. IMPORTANT: All fellowship (F31 and F32) termination notices must be processed electronically using xTrain. Until further notice, fellowship appointments will continue to be done by paper. For help with xTrain, please contact Pam Endo at x62111 in the Office of Research Administration.

In addition, there are many other organizations that offer funding for fellowships. Among those are:

American Heart Association (Pre- and Postdoctoral)
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=9713

American Cancer Society (Postdoctoral)
http://www.cancer.org/Research/ResearchProgramsFunding/FundingOpportunities/Index

APS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physiological Genomics
http://www.the-aps.org/awards/student.htm#Postdoc

Damon Runyon Foundation (Postdoctoral)
http://www.damonrunyon.org/for_scientists/more/fellowship_award_overview

Epilepsy Foundation
http://epilepsyfoundation.org/research/grant-and-fellowship-opportunities.cfm

Human Frontier Science Program (Postdoctoral)
http://www.hfsp.org/

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (Postdoctoral)
http://www.lls.org/researchershealthcareprofessionals/academicgrants/

Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Postdoctoral)
http://www.bwfund.org/pages/52/Grant-Programs/

Helen Hay Whitney Foundation (Postdoctoral)
http://www.hhwf.org/

Arthritis Foundation (Postdoctoral)
http://www.arthritis.org/research-new-investigators.php

Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research (Postdoctoral)
http://www.jccfund.org/fellowship-information

Life Sciences Research Foundation (Postdoctoral)
http://www.lsrf.org/pages/geninfo.htm

Packard Foundation (Postdoctoral/Faculty)
http://www.packard.org/genericDetails.aspx?RootCatID=3&CategoryID=152

Parkinson's Disease Foundation
http://www.pdf.org/en/grant_funding_fellow#pdflabres

Tourette Syndrome
http://www.tsa-usa.org/research.html

NARSAD
http://bbrfoundation.org/narsad-young-investigator-grant