MEDICAL STUDENT RESEARCH

Office of Medical Student Research

Funding Opportunities

Stipends for summer research projects are available from the Crile Research Fellowship Program (please see "Summer Research" icon to the left). Once a student selects a faculty member and a project, other opportunities include short-term research training grants for students interested in heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders (see "Summer Research" icon), private foundations interested in a particular disease, departmental commitments to medical student research, and stipends provided by the mentor. A list of granting agencies with programs that support short term medical student research is available at here. Opportunities for summer research working with an investigator at the National Institutes of Health are available through the Summer Student Fellowship Program. Deadlines for applications can be as early as November for a July start.

Funding for longer periods including an additional year is provided by fellowships from private foundations as described at here.

Opportunities to spend a year at the NIH working with an investigator are available through the Year-Off Training Program for Graduate or Medical Students. Medical student fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholars Program offer exciting opportunities in a wide variety of areas at the NIH. The NIH also offers the Clinical Research Training Program , during which participants spend a year engaged in a mentored research project in translational and/or clinical research.

The Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program provides outstanding year-long research opportunities at selected universities.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute offers year-long Research Training Fellowships to medical students interested in pursuing mentored research working with an investigator at any academic institution.

The Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation offers year-long research fellowships for medical students interested in a wide range of cardiovascular research experiences at outstanding institutions.

The Fogarty International Center and the Ellison Medical Foundation offer Overseas Fellowships in Global Health and Clinical Research, which are one-year mentored clinical research experiences at top-ranked NIH-funded research centers in developing countries, including Africa, Asia, and the Americas for students interested in careers in international health.

Please contact the Office of Medical Student Research for more information about opportunities and if you plan to apply.