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Fellowships and Awards

This list contains a combination of G&D, GSBS and M. D. Anderson administered scholarship, poster and travel awards. For information about GSBS awards, please click on GSBS Funding Opportunities to the right. All GSBS deadlines are subject to change; check the GSBS Web site to confirm application deadlines and eligibility requirements.

G&D Awards

G&D Travel Awards 

  • Deadline: Ongoing 
  • Amount: $200 
  • Eligibility: All G&D students

G&D Research Achievement Award 

  • Deadline: August 31, 2009 
  • Amount: $200–$400
  • Eligibility: All G&D students

G&D Student Service Award 

  • Deadline: N/A 
  • Amount: $100 
  • Eligibility: All G&D students

G&D Retreat Research Poster Award 

  • Deadline: Annual Retreat 
  • Amount: $200–$250 
  • Eligibility: All G&D students

G&D Hearst Foundation Student Research & Education Award 

  • Deadline: June 2, 2008 
  • Amount: Full Stipend 
  • Eligibility: All G&D students

G&D Travel Award to the Riken Center in Kobe, Japan 

  • Deadline: November 13, 2009 
  • Amount: Travel Expenses 
  • Eligibility: All G&D students

 

GSBS and M. D. Anderson Sponsored Awards

American Legion Auxiliary Fellowships 

  • Deadline: July 1, 2009 
  • Amount: $5,000 
  • Eligibility: U.S. citizen
  • Notes: Research related to cancer, competitively renewable for up to three years

Cameron Foundation Fellowship 

  • Deadline: October 30, 2009 
  • Amount: $20,000 
  • Eligibility: Recently advanced to candidacy
  • Notes: Research related to cardiovascular or Alzheimer’s disease

City Federation of Women's Clubs Endowed Scholarship 

  • Deadline: October 5, 2009 
  • Amount: $2,000 
  • Eligibility: Students must soon take or have recently passed the candidacy exam

Floyd Haar, M.D., Endowed Memorial Research Award 

  • Deadline: July 10, 2009 
  • Amount: $1500 
  • Eligibility: Research related to stem cells and human disease

Gigli Family Scholarship

  • Deadline: TBA
  • Amount: $1,000
  • Eligibility: Pre- and post-candidacy
  • Notes: Intended particularly for those who are first generation in their family to enroll in graduate school

GSBS Travel Awards 

  • Deadline: Ongoing 
  • Amount: $350–$500 
  • Notes: Submit application at least four weeks before requested travel date. Applications available on GSBS Web site

Knudson Outstanding Dissertation Award 

  • Deadline: TBA 
  • Amount: $1000 
  • Eligibility: Must be nominated by mentor

Lummis Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences 

  • Deadline: TBA 
  • Amount: $25,000 
  • Eligibility: Post-candidacy with at least one year remaining to complete dissertation
  • Notes: Must be nominated by program

M. D. Anderson Trainee Recognition Day 

  • Deadline: Spring 2010, TBA 
  • Amount: TBA 
  • Eligibility: M. D. Anderson graduate student or trainee
  • Notes: Platform and poster awards

Presidents’ Research Scholarship 

  • Deadline: October 23, 2009 
  • Amount: $5,000 
  • Eligibility: Advanced to candidacy

R.W. Butcher Achievement Award 

  • Deadline: September 30, 2009 
  • Amount: $2,500 
  • Eligibility: Pre- and post-candidacy
  • Notes: Achieved excellence in research and contributed to GSBS and society as a whole

Rosalie B. Hite Fellowships 

  • Deadline: TBA 
  • Amount: Full Stipend 
  • Eligibility: Not advanced to Ph.D. candidacy at the time of application
  • Notes: Contact M. D. Anderson School of Health Professions for more info: 713-745-1205; competitively renewable for up to three years

S. Taub and B. Burton Endowed Fellowship in Vision Disease 

  • Deadline: TBA 
  • Amount: $2,000 
  • Eligibility: Post-candidacy prior to awarding of the scholarship
  • Notes: Research related to vision and vision disease

Schissler Foundation Fellowships in the Genetics of Human Disease 

  • Deadline: TBA 
  • Amount: Full Stipend 
  • Eligibility: Recently advanced to candidacy, or within one semester of advancing
  • Notes: Research related to genetics of human diseases

Schissler Foundation M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Fellowship 

  • Deadline: September 25, 2009 
  • Amount: Full Fellowship 
  • Eligibility: Student at M. D. Anderson; advanced to candidacy within the last academic year or be advanced to candidacy within one semester
  • Notes: Research directed towards a cure for some type of cancer

Sowell-Huggins Scholarship 

  • Deadline: November 13, 2009 
  • Amount: $3,000 
  • Eligibility: Advanced to candidacy
  • Notes: Research related to cancer

Sowell-Huggins Professorship and Graduate Fellowship 

  • Deadline: TBA 
  • Amount: Full Stipend, renewable for up to three years
  • Eligibility: Advanced to candidacy
  • Notes: Joint application must be filed by the student and advisor

T.C. Hsu Memorial Endowed Scholarship 

  • Deadline: TBA 
  • Amount: $6,000 
  • Eligibility: Advanced to candidacy
  • Notes: Research related to genetics or cell biology

Tzu Chi Scholarship Award for Excellence 

  • Deadline: TBA 
  • Amount: $1,000 
  • Eligibility: Ph.D. student
  • Notes: Must demonstrate both excellence in academic achievement and persistent community involvement

William A. and Madelyn Welder Smith Foundation Fellowship 

  • Deadline: TBA 
  • Amount: $10,000 towards stipend 
  • Eligibility: Taking Ph.D. candidacy exam during academic year the fellowship is being offered
  • Notes: Stem cell research

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