A wide variety of internal and external fellowship and prize awards are available to Columbia University graduate students and postdocs. Many of our students have won fellowships.
- NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Service Awards (NRSA) for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships
- NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity
- NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows (F30)
- Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships for European Citizens Studying in the U.S.
- NIH Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health Related Research
- Scottish Rite Schizophrenia Research Program: Dissertation Research Fellowships
- UNCF/Merck Fellowship
- APA Minority Fellowship Program
- Brunie Prize for Research in Neuronal Stem Cell Biology
- Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award
- GrantsNet - A database of various types of funding sources
- Grass Fellowships in Neuroscience
- Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship Awards
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships
- National Science Foundation Individual Predoctoral Fellowship Awards
- NEI Vision Sciences Training Grant
- Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Doctoral Research Award
The purpose of the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Act (NRSA) is to help ensure that diverse pools of highly trained scientists will be available in adequate numbers and in appropriate research areas to carry out the Nation's biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research agendas. The objective of the Kirschstein-NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) is to provide support for promising doctoral candidates who will be performing dissertation research and training in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes during the tenure of the award. The Kirschstein-NRSA for Individual Predoctoral Fellows will provide up to five years of support for research training which leads to the Ph.D. or equivalent research degree, the combined M.D./Ph.D. degree, or another formally combined professional degree and research doctoral degree in the biomedical, behavioral, or clinical sciences.
The purpose of the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Act (NRSA) is to help ensure that diverse pools of highly trained scientists will be available in adequate numbers and in appropriate research areas to carry out the Nation's biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research agendas. The objective of the Kirschstein-NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) is to provide support for promising doctoral candidates who will be performing dissertation research and training in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes during the tenure of the award. The Kirschstein-NRSA for Individual Predoctoral Fellows will provide up to five years of support for research training which leads to the Ph.D. or equivalent research degree, the combined M.D./Ph.D. degree, or another formally combined professional degree and research doctoral degree in the biomedical, behavioral, or clinical sciences.
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) provide Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (Kirschstein-NRSA) to individuals for combined MD/PhD fellowship training. The participating Institutes award this Kirschstein-NRSA individual fellowship (F30) to promising applicants with the potential to become productive, independent, highly trained physician-scientists, including patient-oriented physician-scientists in their scientific mission areas. This funding opportunity supports individual predoctoral F30 fellowships with the expectation that these training opportunities will increase the number of future investigators in basic, translational and clinical research who are physician scientists.
PhD Scholarships are awarded to outstanding young scientists (max. age: 27 years) who wish to pursue an ambitious PhD project of approximately 3 years in basic biomedical research in an internationally leading laboratory. For further details please refer to “Who can apply?”. The peer-review-based selection process is highly competitive. Applicants should therefore be outstanding in all three selection criteria.
The NIH hereby notifies Principal Investigators holding specific types of NIH research grants (listed in the full announcement) that funds are available for administrative supplements to improve the diversity of the research workforce by supporting and recruiting students, postdoctorates, and eligible investigators from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented. Although the administrative supplements supported under this program provide funding for less than one percent of all individuals involved in NIH supported research, the NIH has found these awards to be an effective means of encouraging institutions to recruit from currently underrepresented groups. Administrative supplements must support work within the scope of the original project.
Annual award to support exceptionally promising graduate students during preparation of their doctoral dissertations in fields pertinent to the expansion of knowledge about schizophrenia.
The United Negro College Fund, Inc. and The Merck Institute For Science Education Research Laboratories have established scholarship awards for outstanding African American students pursuing studies and careers in the field of biomedical research. At least 37 awards will be given annually--15 at the undergraduate level, 12 at the graduate level, and 10 at the postdoctoral level.
The MFPs objective is to increase the knowledge of issues related to ethnic minority mental health and to improve the quality of mental health treatment delivered to ethnic minority populations. We do this by providing financial support and professional guidance to individuals pursuing doctoral degrees in psychology and neuroscience.
To recognize outstanding neural stem cell research by creating an annual prize for a Columbia University graduate student whose research improves our understanding of stem cell biology or its therapeutic potential in the central nervous system (CNS). There is a broad range of relevant research topics, including (but not restricted to) studies of CNS progenitor cells, cell cycle regulation, proliferation, fate determination, CNS injury, or the application of stem cells to disease models. Projects may focus on developmental stages and/or the adult CNS.
We are seeking nominations for outstanding graduate students for the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award to recognize outstanding achievement during graduate studies in the biological sciences. The Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recognizes outstanding achievement during graduate studies in the biological sciences.
GrantsNet is a one-stop resource to find funds for training in the sciences and undergraduate science education. Through the support of HHMI and AAAS, this service is completely free.
The Grass Foundation seeks to encourage independent research at the Marine Biological Laboratory by investigators early in their career and to increase research opportunities for persons trained for careers in neurobiological investigation. The normal tenure is fourteen weeks. The number of fellowships awarded varies annually.
The Graduate Fellowship Award is based on merit (not need) and consists of a cost-of-education allowance and a personal-support stipend.
The Department of Defense (DoD) is committed to increasing the number and quality of our nation's scientists and engineers. Toward that end, the DoD annually supports approximately 8,000 graduate students in fields important to national defense needs.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an agency of the Federal Government. One of its responsibilities is the awarding of graduate fellowships in science, mathematics, and engineering. The fellowships offer direct support for full-time study leading to advanced degrees to individuals who have demonstrated ability and special aptitude in these areas. Fellows are not considered employees of the National Science Foundation.
Columbia University announces a training program in Vision Sciences funded by the National Eye Institute, which will support four predoctoral students and two postdoctoral fellows annually. The training program is focused on the visual sciences, at the systems, cellular, and molecular levels. Training emphasizes functional analysis of the visual pathways from eye to brain, and cellular, molecular and genetic aspects of the normal and diseased eye.
Columbia University is one of twelve institutions to be awarded the new Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health, with the ultimate goal of enabling researchers to provide new treatments more efficiently and quickly to patients. Within this program, the TRANSFORM (TRaining And Nurturing Scientists FOr Research that is Multidisciplinary) award offers structured training and practical exposure to clinical or translational research for students currently enrolled in basic science or pre-clinical PhD programs.
Doctoral Research Awards are intended to provide special recognition and support to students who are pursuing a PhD degree in a health-related field in Canada or abroad. These candidates are expected to have an exceptionally high potential for future research achievement and productivity.
