Student Funding Opportunities

The Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine encourages its graduate students to apply for funding from outside sources. Not only is writing a grant an excellent learning opportunity, but it also looks great on your Curriculum Vitae and prepares you to write future grants in your scientific career!

COS (Community of Science) and Science Magazine are databases that provide comprehensive, searchable listings of funding opportunities for predoctoral/ postdoctoral fellowships:

• Pivot – Community of Science
• Science Careers – Science

There are also specific funding opportunities that are available to the graduate students, including:

In-House Funding Opportunities

• Graduate Assistantship Information – See Costs and Aid (for master’s students only)

Predoctoral Fellowships

• Ruth Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) – NIH F31 series
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
• National Science Foundation
• NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium
• American Heart Association
• Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation, Inc. (PhRMA)
  • Pharmacology/Toxicology Pre Doctoral Fellowship
  • Informatics Pre Doctoral Fellowship
  • Pharmaceutics Pre Doctoral Fellowship
  • Health Outcomes Pre Doctoral Fellowship
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowships
• American Lung Association
• Society of Toxicology Graduate Student Awards
• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Student Traineeships
• The American Physiological Society
• American Society for Microbiology

Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Ruth Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) – NIH F32 series
• National Defense Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship
• National Science Foundation
• American Heart Association
• American Cancer Society
• Cancer Research Institute
• American Diabetes Association
• The American Physiological Society
• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation, Inc. (PhRMA)
  • Pharmacology/Toxicology Post Doctoral Fellowship
  • Informatics Post Doctoral Fellowship
  • Pharmaceutics Post Doctoral Fellowship
  • Health Outcomes Post Doctoral Fellowship