Weill Cornell Medical College The Rockefeller University Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Apply Online Application Due: December 1, 2013

External Fellowship Opportunities

All TPCB students receive generous fellowship support from the program. In addition, many of our students have successfully competed for prestigious external fellowships to support their research, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth Kirchstein Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Graduate Fellowship, and Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) National Science Scholarship. A list of fellowship opportunities that are available before and during the PhD training period is provided below.

 

Fellowship Name Eligibility
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Undergrad or graduate student (1st year) – NSF Eligibility Tool
National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Undergrad or graduate student (1st or 2nd year)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study Undergrad or graduate student
The Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship Undergrad or graduate student
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships Undergrad or graduate student
Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust Undergrad or graduate student (last 18 months of study)
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Undergrad or graduate student (1st-2nd year); specific citizenship requirements
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Undergrad or graduate student (1st-3rd year); must be Canadian citizen
American Heart Association (AHA) Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Graduate student (open to international students)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Doctoral Foreign Study Award (DFSA) Graduate student (must be Canadian citizen or permanent resident)
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Kirchstein F31 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Graduate student
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Kirchstein F31 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity Graduate student
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Kirchstein F30 Pre-Doctoral MD/PhD Fellowship Graduate student
National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) E. I. DuPont Graduate Fellowship (PDF) Graduate student
American Epilepsy Society(AES) Predoctoral Research Fellowship Graduate student
American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship Graduate student (2nd year and beyond)
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Foundation Pharmacology/Toxicology Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Graduate student (finishing 2nd year and beyond)
Department of Defense (DOD) Horizon Award Graduate student (finishing 2nd year and beyond); International students eligible to apply
Epilepsy Foundation Pre-Doctoral Research Training Fellowship Graduate student (has selected PhD project)
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) PhD Fellowship Programme Graduate student (first 6 months of PhD project); must be European citizen
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Short Term Fellowships Graduate student with planned collaboration in an EMBC member state
American Chemical Society (ACS), Division of Medicinal Chemistry (MEDI) Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Graduate student (entering 3rd or 4th year)
American Chemical Society (ACS), Division of Organic Chemistry (ORGN) Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Graduate student (3rd or 4th year)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Student Research Fellowship Graduate student (3rd or 4th year)