The BMS Program 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:
- COS Funding Opportunities
- Science Careers – Science Magazine
There are also specific funding opportunities that are available to the graduate students, including:
- In-house Funding Opportunities
- Predoctoral Fellowships
- Postdoctoral Fellowships
In-house Funding Opportunities
- Marshall University Graduate College Travel Award
- Student Summer Thesis Awards (For Master’s Students)
- Annual BMS Graduate Student Awards
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)
- 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
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Student Traineeships
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
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society
- The American Physiological Society
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation, Inc. (PhRMA)