Eligibility Windows of Common Funding Opportunities for Ph.D. Students in ZI Labs
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Common Grants and Fellowships for Ph.D. Students in ZI Labs
- Mechanism
- Hertz Fellowship
- Annual Deadlines
- Mid – Late October
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Pre-grad or first year Ph.D.
- U.S. citizen/permanent resident
- Deadline Month
- 10
- Mechanism
- Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
- Annual Deadlines
- Mid – Late October
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- First or second year Ph.D.; Less than 31 years old
- Must be an immigrant or child of immigrants
- U.S. citizen/permanent resident, DACA, asylee, refugee
- Deadline Month
- 10
- Mechanism
- HHMI Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study
- Annual Deadlines
- Early December
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Second or third year with 2+ years left of Ph.D.
- U.S. citizen/permanent resident, DACA
- Adviser-student pairs must be studying scientific problems in biomedical sciences, life sciences, or biological questions in related disciplines
- Deadline Month
- 12
- Mechanism
- AAUW Fellowships and Grants for Women
- Annual Deadlines
- Early-Mid November
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Identify as a woman
- Different eligibility for different grants
- Grants available for international students
- Deadline Month
- 11
- Mechanism
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
- Annual Deadlines
- Early – Mid October
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Pre-grad, first year Ph.D.
- U.S. citizen/permanent resident
- Have completed less than one academic year in a graduate degree program
- Never previously applied to GRFP while enrolled in a graduate degree program
- Deadline Month
- 10
- Mechanism
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Program
- Annual Deadlines
- Late October - Early November
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- 3+ years left of Ph.D.
- U.S. citizen/national
- Deadline Month
- 10
- Mechanism
- Dompé Scholarships for Neuroscience and Neurobiology
- Annual Deadlines
- Mid-Late January
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Any nationality
- Admitted to a master's, PhD or post-doc program in neuroscience and/or neurobiology at a US university
- Deadline Month
- 01
- Mechanism
- CSTQ Enrico Fermi Fellowship
- Annual Deadlines
- Mid October
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Research Areas
- Complex systems & emergence: consciousness, intelligence, origin of life, and interfaces between them.
- Quantum optics
- Quantum information
- Topological photonics
- Quantum computers
- Gravitational waves
- Cosmology
- Quantum gravity
- Deadline Month
- 10
- Mechanism
- NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31)
- Annual Deadlines
- Early December + Early April + Early August
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- 1-3 years left of Ph.D. at award start (~8 months after application)
- U.S. citizen/permanent resident
- Deadline Month
- 12 + 04 + 08
- Mechanism
- Institutional T32 Training Grant
- Annual Deadlines
- Mid – Late June
- Email solicitation sent end of May
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- 3rdor 4th year Ph.D.
- U.S. citizen/permanent resident
- Preference for project within the stated goals/disciplines of the T32
- Deadline Month
- 06
- Mechanism
- NIH Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Award (Parent F99/K00)
- Annual Deadlines
- Early December + Early April + Early August
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. citizen/permanent resident
- 1-2 years from completing Ph.D. at award start (~8 months after application)
- Deadline Month
- 03
Additional Funding Opportunities
- Mechanism
- Google PhD Fellowship Program
- Annual Deadlines
- Internal Columbia Competition
- Call for submissions: Mid- or Late March
- Internal application due: Mid-April
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Internal submission:
- For computer science work in various fields
- Will complete all graduate coursework by the academic award year when the Fellowship begins
- Google employees, and their spouses, children, and members of their household are not eligible.
- Students that are already supported by a comparable industry award are not eligible. Government or non-profit organization funding is allowable.
- Deadline Month
- 04
- Mechanism
- DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
- Annual Deadlines
- Mid-January
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. Citizen/ Permanent resident
- Undergraduate seniors
- Current master's degree students
MUST enroll at a different institution for Ph.D. studies to begin the fall term coincident with the start of DOE CSGF funding - First-year graduate students
CANNOT have completed more than one year of coursework prior to DOE CSGF application submission - Employed individuals
- Other, including those matriculating into graduate school
- Deadline Month
- 01
- Mechanism
- Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation
- Annual Deadlines
- Internal Columbia Competition
- Call for submissions: Mid-January
- Internal application: Late January – Early February
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Internal submission:
- Morningside competition: Ph.D. student or postdoc conducting biomedical research at the Morningside campus
- VP&S competition: Ph.D. student or postdoc conducting biomedical research at CUIMC or ZMBBI, and PI must have primary appointment in VP&S
- Need at least 2 publications to submit for the competition
- Deadline Month
- 02
- Mechanism
- Schmidt Science Fellows
- Annual Deadlines
- Internal Columbia Competition
- Call for submissions: Early March
- Internal application: Late March
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Must propose a career pivot -- see Schmidt Fellows Directory for indication of scale of pivot
- PhD study in the natural sciences (Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Earth Sciences), Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science.
- Must expect to complete your PhD the upcoming spring/summer or by July the following year (1 year after application)
- Deadline Month
- 03
Transition to Post-Doc: must know your postdoc lab for all of these fellowships
- Mechanism
- Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- Annual Deadlines
- Early – Mid June
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Final stage of Ph.D. or M.D. – or completed the degree
- Basic biomedical research post-doc
- Deadline Month
- 06
- Mechanism
- Simons Society of Fellows - Junior Fellow
- Annual Deadlines
- Early – Mid September
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- By nomination
- Must have Ph.D. before August start of program (nearly one year after application)
- Deadline Month
- 09
- Mechanism
- Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Annual Deadlines
- Late January – Early February
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Must have Ph.D. conferred before starting program (5 months after application)
- Postdoctoral training in the same institution in which the applicant received their Ph.D. is not preferred
- Deadline Month
- 02
- Mechanism
- NYAS Leon Levy Scholarships in Neuroscience
- Annual Deadlines
- Mid October
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- By the time of appointment on September 1 of the next year after application submission, the applicant must:
- Hold a doctoral degree (PhD, DPhil, MD, DDS, DVM, etc.)
- Hold a full-time postdoctoral position at an eligible institution in one of New York City’s five boroughs
- Possess no more than three (3) years of cumulative postdoctoral experience
- Conduct research in Neuroscience or one of its sub-disciplines
- Deadline Month
- 10
- Mechanism
- Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Research Award
- Annual Deadlines
- Late October
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Must have Ph.D. before August start of program (~10 months after application)
- Letter of acceptance from postdoc PI needed
- Post-doc must be in different lab than Ph.D.
- Deadline Month
- 10
- Mechanism
- NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF)
- Annual Deadlines
- Late October – Early November
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. citizen/permanent resident
- Postdoc expected to be at a different institution than Ph.D.
- Deadline Month
- 11
- Mechanism
- NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Annual Deadlines
- Late September
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Biology theme: Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Biological Sciences to Strengthen and Safeguard Biotechnology Innovations
- U.S. citizen/permanent resident
- Postdoc expected to be at a different institution than Ph.D.
- Deadline Month
- 09
- Mechanism
- NIH K32 - Academic Career Excellence (ACE) Award
- Annual Deadlines
- Early October + Early February + Early June
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. citizen/permanent resident
- 1 year or less left of Ph.D.
- Deadline Month
- 10 + 02 + 06
- Mechanism
- NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Parent F32)
- Annual Deadlines
- Early December + Early April + Early August
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. citizen/permanent resident
- Ph.D. requirements must be completed before award activated
- 1 year or less left of Ph.D.
- Deadline Month
- 12 + 04 + 08
Transition to Faculty (skipping post-doc)
- Mechanism
- NIH Director’s Early Independence Awards (DP5 Clinical Trial Optional)
- Annual Deadlines
- Call for submissions: Mid June
Internal deadline: Mid July
NIH deadline: Late August – Early September - Eligibility
- Limited submission: internal application
- Ph.D. received within ± 1 year of the application (you will finish in one year or you’ve had less than one year of postdoc)
- Deadline month
- 07
Additional Resources
- List of current and previous NB&B PhD students who were awarded fellowships
- Ph.D. - Comprehensive funding list updated monthly: Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D.)
- Post-Doc - Comprehensive funding list updated monthly: Johns Hopkins University (Post-Doc)
- Columbia GrantForward funding database
- Duke University funding database
- Graduate Women in Science National Fellowship Program