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Grants and Fellowships for International Ph.D. Students studying Neuroscience/Neurobiology (not an exhaustive list)
- Applicant's Home Country / Region
- Any
- Mechanism
- 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
- Applicant's Home Country / Region
- Any
- Mechanism
- AAUW Fellowships and Grants for Women
- Annual Deadlines
- Early November / Mid November / Early December
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Identify as a woman
- Check eligibility for specific grant, as it differs among grants
- Deadline Month
- 11
- Applicant's Home Country / Region
- Europe (geographical) including: all EU countries, UK, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Turkey, and Israel
- Mechanism
- Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Ph.D. Fellowship
- Annual Deadlines
- Early February / Early June / Early October
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Must have at least pursued secondary school or university education in Europe, in order to be considered as European by the BIF.
- Must have begun your project no more than six months prior to the deadline (must apply within the first 6 months since you joined your thesis lab)
- Project must be an experimental project in basic biomedical research, including in silico projects.
- Deadline Month
- 02 + 06 + 10
- Applicant's Home Country / Region
- Canada
- Mechanism
- Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral (CGRS D)CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC
- Annual Deadlines
- Mid-October
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Must have completed no more than 36 months of full-time equivalent study in the doctoral program, the PhD portion of the joint professional undergraduate/PhD program (such as MD/PhD, JD/PhD, DVM/PhD) or the joint program (such as MA/PhD, MSc/PhD, MBA/PhD) for which you are requesting funding by December 31 of the calendar year of your application.
- Must be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident of Canada or protected person under subsection 95(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada) as of the application deadline; and
- Have completed at least one previous undergraduate or graduate degree at a Canadian institution.
- You can apply a maximum of three times to the CGRS D.
- You can submit a maximum of one Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Master's (CGRS M), Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral (CGRS D), or Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) application per academic year to either CIHR, NSERC or SSHRC. If you submit more than one application, only the eligible application submitted first will be retained.
- Deadline Month
- 10
- Applicant's Home Country / Region
- Hong Kong
- Mechanism
- Croucher Scholarships for Doctoral Study
- Annual Deadlines
- Mid-November
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Must be a permanent resident of Hong Kong
- Must have obtained First Class Honours or equivalent qualifications in their first degree. Otherwise will be expected to be able to receive substantively a higher degree (e.g. MSc or MPhil degree) by September of the year following the application to become eligible (MPhil transfer to doctoral candidature is not considered as equivalent).
- Students in their final year of first degree studies may also apply, but any offer of award will be conditional on their obtaining First Class Honours or equivalent qualifications upon their graduation.
- Deadline Month
- 11
- Applicant's Home Country / Region
- Any
- Mechanism
- Google Ph.D. Fellowship Program
- Annual Deadlines
- Limited Submission:
- Call for applications expected: Mid-Late August
- Internal application due: Mid-September
- Key Eligibility Criteria
- Must apply through Columbia's internal competition
- Research must be within one of the listed fields of computer science (see web page)
- Will complete all graduate coursework by the academic award year when the Fellowship begins
- Students must remain enrolled full-time in the PhD program for the duration of the Fellowship or forfeit the award.
- 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
- 09
- Applicant's Home Country / Region
- Any
- 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
- Applicant's Home Country / Region
- Any
- 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
Help us expand this list!
Please email Tori ([email protected]) if you find additional funding opportunities for international students. We are eager to add to this list.
Additional Funding Opportunities
- Mechanism
- Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation
- Annual Deadlines
- Call for submissions: Mid-January
- Internal application: Late January – Early February
- Eligibility
- Internal competition:
- 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
Grants available for DACA, refugee, and asylee students
- Mechanism
- Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
- Annual Deadlines
- Mid – Late October
- Eligibility
- 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
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
- Must have valid visa
- 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)
- Applicants may be citizens of any country, but awards for non-U.S. citizens can only be made to sponsoring institutions in the United States
- 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
- Non-U.S. citizens must work in a U.S. laboratory to be eligible for an award
- Must have Ph.D. before August start of program (nearly 1 year after application)
- Letter of acceptance from postdoc PI needed
- Post-doc must be in different lab than Ph.D.
- Deadline Month
- 10
Additional Links
- 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