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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
- AAUW Grants for Women
- Title and Link
- AAUW Fellowships and Grants
- Annual Deadlines
- Early November / Mid November / Early December
- Eligibility
- 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
- Title and Link
- BIF Ph.D. Fellowship
- Annual Deadlines
- Early February / Early June / Early October
- Eligibility
- 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
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Title and Link
- CIHR Doctoral Research Award : Doctoral Foreign Study Award (DFSA)
- Annual Deadlines
- Fall (likely October)
- Eligibility
- Canadian citizen/permanent resident or a Protected Person under subsection 95(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada), as of the application deadline date;
- have completed no more than 24 months of full-time study in their doctoral program by December 31 of the calendar year of application if previously enrolled in a graduate program;
- have completed no more than 36 months of full-time study in their joint program by December 31 of the calendar year of application if enrolled in a joint program, such as, MD/PhD, MA/PhD;
- Applicants that fall into this category have access to the 36-month window whether or not they were previously enrolled in a Master's program
- have completed no more than 36 months of full-time study in their doctoral program by December 31 of the calendar year of application if enrolled directly from a Bachelor to a PhD (not previously enrolled in a graduate program).
- Applicants can submit a maximum of one scholarship (master's or doctoral) or fellowship application per academic year to either CIHR, NSERC or SSHRC.
- Research must fall within one of the stated priority areas (see funding opportunity announcement)
- Deadline Month
- 09-11 (?)
- Applicant's Home Country / Region
- Canada
- Mechanism
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Title and Link
- NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships – Doctoral program
- Annual Deadlines
- Mid-October
- Eligibility
- Applicant may take up the PGS D award at any eligible foreign institution, provided you have received a previous degree from a Canadian institution
- Proposed research must clearly lie within the natural sciences and engineering (NSE), rather than the health sciences
- Applicants can submit a maximum of one scholarship (master's or doctoral) or fellowship application per academic year to either CIHR, NSERC or SSHRC
- Deadline Month
- 10
- Applicant's Home Country / Region
- Hong Kong
- Mechanism
- Croucher Foundation
- Title and Link
- Croucher Scholarships for Doctoral Study
- Annual Deadlines
- Mid-November
- Eligibility
- 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 Research
- Title and Link
- Google Ph.D. Fellowship Program
- Annual Deadlines
- Limited Submission:
- Call for applications expected: Mid-Late August
- Internal application due: Mid-September
- Eligibility
- 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
- F99/K00 Transition to Aging
- Title and Link
- Transition to Aging Research for Predoctoral Students (F99/K00 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Annual Deadlines
- Mid-October
- Eligibility
- Must have a valid visa for the F99 phase
- 1-2 years from completing Ph.D.
- 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 Pharmaceuticals
- Title and Link
- Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation
- Annual Deadlines
- Call for submissions: Mid-January
- Internal application: Late January – Early February
- Eligibility
- 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
- NIDA Dissertation Grant
- Title and Link
- Substance Use/Substance Use Disorder Dissertation Research Award (R36 - Clinical Trials Optional)
- Annual Deadlines
- New applications: Mid-October + Mid-February + Mid-June
- Renewal/Resubmission: Mid-November, Mid-March, Mid-July
- Eligibility
- For SU/D-related dissertation research related to the study of basic, clinical, developmental, epidemiology, prevention, treatment, services, or women and sex/gender differences
- No citizenship/ residency or visa requirements are listed in the FOA
- Deadline Month
- 10 + 02 + 06
Grants available for DACA, refugee, and asylee students
- Mechanism
- Ford Foundation
- Link and Title
- Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
- Annual Deadlines
- Early – Mid December
- Eligibility
- 3+ years left of Ph.D.
- U.S. citizen/permanent resident, DACA, Indigenous individual (Jay Treaty), asylee, refugee
- Deadline Month
- 12
- Mechanism
- P&D Soros Fellowship
- Link and Title
- 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
- Mechanism
- HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
- Link and Title
- Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study
- Annual Deadlines
- Early – Mid September
- Nominators notified in August
- Eligibility
- Limited submission - by university nomination
- Second or third year or 2+ years left of Ph.D.
- U.S. citizen/permanent resident, DACA
- Under-represented in the sciences (race, ethnicity, disability, HHMI EXROP alumni)
- Deadline Month
- 09
- Mechanism
- Ford Foundation
- Link and Title
- Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
- Annual Deadlines
- Early – Mid December
- Eligibility
- U.S. citizen/permanent resident, DACA, Indigenous individual (Jay Treaty), asylee, refugee
- Will complete the dissertation in a period of 9–12 months during the following academic year
- Deadline Month
- 12
Transition to Post-Doc: must know your postdoc lab for all of these fellowships
- Mechanism
- Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
- Name and Link
- Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- Annual Deadlines
- Early – Mid June
- Eligibility
- 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
- HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellowship
- Name and Link
- Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program
- Annual Deadlines
- Late November – Early December
- Eligibility
- Ph.D. must be conferred by start of program (okay to apply before finished)
- Accepted to join postdoc lab by application due date
- Under-represented in sciences (race, ethnicity, disability, disadvantaged background, women)
- Non-U.S. citizens and applicants with other nationalities must have a degree from a research institution in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico)
- Deadline Month
- 12
- Mechanism
- Simons Foundation
- Name and Link
- Simons Society of Fellows - Junior Fellow
- Annual Deadlines
- Early – Mid September
- Eligibility
- By nomination
- Must have Ph.D. before August start of program (okay to apply before finished)
- Deadline Month
- 09
- Mechanism
- Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund
- Name and Link
- Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Annual Deadlines
- Late January – Early February
- Eligibility
- Must have Ph.D. before starting program (okay to apply before finished)
- 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
- Deadline Month
- 02
- Mechanism
- Life Sciences Research Foundation
- Name and Link
- Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Research Award
- Annual Deadlines
- Late September – Early October
- Eligibility
- 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 (okay to apply before finished)
- 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 PIVOT funding database
- Duke University funding database
- Pathways to Science - Ph.D. portable funding search
- Graduate Women in Science National Fellowship Program