Graduate Student Funding

All of the graduate programs offer full tuition and a benefits package that include books, a yearly stipend and a large portion of your health care costs. But in order to establish yourself as an independent investigator you should try to get a portion or all of your own funding for the majority of your graduate work. There are a number of NIH T32 training grants and fellowships that you can apply for.   Not only will the Director of Graduate Studies in your program be able to guide you but the Graduate School also has resources to aid you in the search to finance your graduate education. Start here  

A number of NIH T32 training grants provide financial support and specialized programs of training that will allow graduate students to establish themselves as independent investigators who will pursue Immunology based research. In addition, Center for Immunology faculty members are members of a broad array of graduate programs that facilitate training in cancer-related fields.

UMN opportunities:

• Fellowships from the UMN Graduate School
• Beatrice Z. Milne and Theodore Brandenburg Award (for exceptional thesis research)
• Immunology Training Grant
• Cancer Biology Training Grant 
• MnDRIVE Funding Opportunities ​​
• Institute of Molecular Virology Training Grant 
• Musculoskeletal Research Training Program
• Research Fellowship in Pediatric Cancer Epidemiology
• Minnesota Craniofacial Research Training (MinnCResT) Program
• Translational Research Development Program from CTSI
• Medical School Student Awards
• Veterinary Medicine training grants 
• Graduate School Fellowships

National opportunities:

• NIH Ruth L. Kirschtein National Research Service Award
  • F30: Individual predoctoral NRSA fellowship for MD/PhD students
  • F31: Individual predoctoral NRSA fellowship for PhD students

  • F-Award Workshop (from the UMN Medical School/CTSI)​​​​​

• NIH F99/K00: Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (for year 3 or 4 graduate students)
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Proposal Writing Workshop (from the UMN Graduate School)
• Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships
• GEM PhD Science Fellowship Program
• Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships (for graduate students in their first or second year of grad school)
• Stem Cell Biology Training Grant
• President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
• American Association of University Women
• Ben Barres Fellowship (for professional development of trans, intersex, and non-binary graduate students and postdoctoral fellows)
• STaRT Fellowship from Cancer Research Institute
• AHA Predoctoral Fellowship from AHA
• FinAid! 
• Fastweb!'s The Latest & Greatest Scholarships for Grad Students
• Petersons’ Graduate Scholarship Search Engine
• HHMI International Student Research Fellowships
• Big Ten Academic Alliance Minority Graduate Application Fee Waiver
• A collection of Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants for Graduate Students
• HigherEd Financial Aid for Graduate Students
• The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine
• STEMGradStudents.science.gov
• Financial Aid for Doctoral Students: https://www.phds.me/financial-aid/

• The Doctoral Student's Guide to Fellowships: https://www.phds.me/resources/guide-to-fellowships/

Search for more via this database of funding opportunities maintained by Harvard University