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
- Gilliam Fellows ProgramMechanism
- 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
- Gilliam Fellows ProgramMechanism
- 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
- Gilliam Fellows ProgramMechanism
- HHMI Gilliam Fellows Program
- Annual Deadlines
- Late October
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Currently enrolled and in good academic standing in a biological or biomedical PhD program or dual-degree PhD program (MD-PhD, DVM-PhD, etc.) at any HHMI eligible institution
- In your second or third year of a PhD program as of the application deadline and have at least two full years of PhD study remaining as of September 1 of the following year (at award start)
- A US citizen, US permanent resident, an individual who has been granted temporary permission to stay in the US (e.g., DACA) or an international student eligible to study at and receive funding from their graduate institution consistent with law
- Student-Advisor pairs must be conducting research in the basic biological and biomedical sciences in any of the many scientific disciplines that HHMI supports
- Pursuing a career in scientific research and committed to advancing excellence and inclusion in science
- Deadline Month
- 10
- Gilliam Fellows ProgramMechanism
- 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
- Gilliam Fellows ProgramMechanism
- 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
- Gilliam Fellows ProgramMechanism
- 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
- Gilliam Fellows ProgramMechanism
- 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
- Gilliam Fellows ProgramMechanism
- 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
- Gilliam Fellows ProgramMechanism
- 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
- Gilliam Fellows ProgramMechanism
- 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
- Gilliam Fellows ProgramMechanism
- 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