Funding is competitive and based on a 12-month stipend of $25,000 and includes individual health insurance guaranteed for up to 5 years, pending satisfactory progress as determined by IA faculty.

Each applicant is strongly encouraged to apply for the prestigious MU Life Sciences fellowship and extramural sources of predoctoral support. Examples are:

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
• LSB Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellowships
• NIH Predoctoral Fellowships for Minority Students: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (F31)
• NIH Predoctoral Fellowships: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellows

A list of other possibilities can be found at from the MU Graduate School.