Sources of Funding
Pre-Doctoral
American Heart Association (AHA), Heartland Affiliate Predoctoral Fellowship 0710043Z. “Investigating the Functional Effects of the Angiotensinogen -20 Polymorphism in the Etiology of Essential Hypertension.” Funded from January 2007-December 2008. Currently $25,000 per annum with $23,000 of that applied toward student stipend (plus $2,000 from the University of Iowa for receiving outside funding and an opportunity to apply for a Graduate Incentive Fellowship through the University of Iowa Graduate College).
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=9713
Two deadlines each year: Mid-January and Mid-July. Two-year fellowship with competitive extension possible for a third year.
Awarded to Matt Dickson
University of Iowa Graduate College, Graduate Incentive Fellowship. One-time award received for 2007. Currently set at 5% of graduate student fellowship. Funds must be used on "professional advancement" (lab supplies, publication costs, computer hardware/software, professional society membership dues, journal subscriptions, etc.).
http://www.grad.uiowa.edu/students/FinancialSupport/Fellowships/GIF.asp
No deadline is listed for the application, but the money must be spent by June 1 of the fiscal year in which the fellowship is received.
Awarded to Matt Dickson
Residential Fellows Program at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford. Please see their website: http://www.casbs.org/programs/fellowships/?PHPSESSID=6142455c6093db58 for information. The deadline for 2008-2009 applications is at the end of June, but they want to spread the word for their 2009-2010 applications.
Post-Doctoral
Post Doc Fellowships offered by the EPAs Office of Research and development. Currently, they are advertising for positions in the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory and the National Center for Environmental Assessment. See details at http://www.epa.gov/ord/htm/jobs_ord.htm
