Financial Aid/Fellowships
Internal Funding in the Bioinformatics Graduate Program is administered by the Program Chair. The awards include Presidential University Graduate Fellowships, Graduate Assistantships, Research Assistantships and Teaching Fellowships, and carry an annual stipend of $24,000 – $26,400 plus tuition.
External Funding Opportunities
- Jacob K. Javits Fellowships Program
- DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences Visiting Scholars
- Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
- Gates Millennium Scholars Program
- National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM Fellowship)
- National Physical Science Consortium
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
- DHS Scholarship and Fellowship Program
- American Association of University Women
- Santa Fe Institute
- The office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) at BU keeps an ongoing list of fellowship opportunities on their website.
Postdoctoral Financial Aid/Fellowships
- American Association of University Women
- A.P. Giannini Foundation
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Dewitt Stetten Jr Memorial Fellowship in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology
- Engineering and Physical Science Research Council
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Life Sciences Research Foundation
- Marshall Sherfield Fellowships
- National Academy of Sciences
- National Science Foundation
- NSF: Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Supporting Activities
- NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Award (K99/R00)
- Sandia National Laboratories Truman Fellowship
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- Santa Fe Institute