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Predoctoral Fellowship Funding Sources

Selected funding opportunities for graduate students.

Restricted to
US Citizens/Permanent Residents
American Association of University Women American Fellowships
American Society for Microbiology
Department of Defense National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Fellowship
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowships in the Physical Sciences
NIH Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Predoctoral Fellows (F31)
NIH Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows (F30)
NIH Dissertation Award (R36)
NIH Individual Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00) 
NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship Program
GROW: Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (for NSF Graduate Research Fellows)
Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Restricted to Other Citizenship/Nationalities
American-Scandinavian Foundation
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowships

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Norway-America Association Graduate Study & Research Scholarships 
Norway Fulbright Foundation for Educational Exchange Study and Research Grants at the PhD Level
Ernst Schering Foundation Doctoral Fellowships

Unrestricted
American Association of University Women International Fellowships
American Association for Cancer Research Pre-doctoral Fellowships
American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowships 
Association for Institutional Research Dissertation Grant
Autism Speaks Predoctoral Fellowships
De Karman Fellowship Trust Graduate Fellowship
Epilepsy Foundation Pre-doctoral Research Training Fellowship
Graduate Women in Science National Fellowships Program



Other Resources
Grant Writing Tools
Grant Seeking Resources
Community of Science

OSPA Funding Database
OSPA Training Area
UCLA GRAPES (grad student/postdoc funding database)

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