Fellowships
Fellowships
There is a wide array of external predoctoral science fellowship funds (i.e., from non-Harvard funding sources) available to PhD students. These non-Harvard resources can be used to help support--or even augment--the University's financial aid package, and we encourage you to look them over. Harvard Griffin GSAS maintains an extensive Carat Database of fellowships and we have also curated a list of fellowships that are most relevant to our students below.
All HMS OGE PhD Program students wishing to apply for an NIH F31 Fellowship must do so through OGE, not through the hospitals or HMS departments. To schedule your individual fellowship counseling session, please contact DMSGrants@hms.harvard.edu.
Fellowship Resources & Helpful Links
Workshops and Resources
- Harvard Griffin GSAS Fellowships & Writing Center
- NSF GRFP Canvas site
- A list of fellowship and grant writing workshops and resources can be found on the Career & Professional Development Navigator website.
- For copies of successful OGE PhD student fellowship applications, please contact DMSGrants@hms.harvard.edu
Common Fellowships
The most common fellowships PhD students apply to are:
- National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Individual Pre-Doctoral Fellowships (F31)
- National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
- DOD National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship
- Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for Minorities
Albert J. Ryan Fellowship
The Albert J. Ryan Foundation was established in 1967 by Alice M. Ryan of Cincinnati in memory of her father. Miss Ryan wished to recognize and encourage the development of students at Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and the University of Cincinnati who "show promise of becoming research scholars and who show a capacity to contribute to the advancement of medical science." For more information, please see the Ryan Fellowship webpage.