Funding and Training Opportunities for Residents & Students
For Residents
NIH Fellowship Programs for Individuals
NIH Loan Repayment Program
Funded Training Programs at Northwestern University
- Transplant Surgery Scientist Training Program
- Children's Surgery Methodology and Research Training (C-SMART)
- NUCATS Enhancing Translational Science to Accelerate Impact of New Innovations (T32)
- Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health for Residents and Fellows
- Querrey Simpson Institute for Regenerative Engineering (QSI RENU)
- BCVI Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship
- NIH and Other Federally Funded Training Programs at Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences
Masters and Certificate Programs at Northwestern University
- NU School of Professional Studies Advanced Graduate Certificates (including Health Informatics and Artificial Intelligence)
- Master of Science in Health Services Outcomes Research
- HSOR Methodology Certificate
- HSOR Contemporary Issues Certificate
- Master of Science in Clinical Investigation
- Master of Science in Law
- Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence
- McGaw Medical Education Clinical Scholars Program (Programs in Bioethics, Global Health, Health Equity and Advocacy, and Medical Education)
- NU Center for Leadership Fellowship in Leadership
Funding Opportunities at Northwestern University
Funded Training Programs Outside of Northwestern University
- American College of Surgeon Clinical Scholars in Residence
- Baylor College of Medicine - Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery T32 Fellowship (Cardiovascular Disease)
- Duke Research Training Program in Surgical Oncology (T32)
- Chicago Biomedical Consortium Entrepreneurial Fellows Program
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program
- NCI Surgical Oncology Research Fellowship
- Penn Surgical Oncology T32 Training Program
- Stanford-AHRQ HSR T32 Fellowship
- Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellowship
- Surgical Education Numbered Trials Fellowship
- The Advanced Immunobiology T32 Training Program (AITP) at Duke University
- Training of Academic Surgical Oncologists T32 Training Program at MD Anderson Cancer Center
- T32 NIH Training Grant Position at Boston University
- UAB Surgical Oncology Research Training Program (T32)
- UCSF Transplant Surgery T32 Fellowship
- University of Arizona Aerospace Medicine and Surgery Fellowship
- University of North Carolina Sheps Center NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Services Research
- University of Pittsburgh Vascular Surgery Training Grant (T32)
- University of Texas McGovern Medical School - Center for Surgical Trials and Evidence-based Practice (C-STEP) Fellowship
- University of Washington Surgical Outcomes Research Center (SORCE) T32 Fellowship
- University of Wisconsin Surgical Oncology Research Training Program (T32)
- VA Chief Resident in Quality and Patient Safety Program (CRQS)
Non-NIH Funding Opportunities Outside of Northwestern University
- American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowships
- American College of Surgeons Scholarships
- American Society of Transplantation Post-Doctoral Research Grant
- Association of Academic Surgeons (AAS)/AAS Foundation Trainee Research Awards (in global surgery, basic science/translational, clinical outcomes/HSOR, education)
- Association of Program Directors in Surgery (APDS) and Association for Surgical Education (ASE) Collaborative Grant Initiative
- AATS David J. Sugarbaker Surgical Resident Investigator Award
- AATS Foundation Programs
- ACS-MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago
- American Association for Cancer Research (many opportunities)
- American College of Surgeons Resident Research Scholarship
- American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship
- American Society of Transplant Surgeons Jon Fryer Resident Research Scholarship
- American Society of Transplant Surgeons Veloxis Fellowship in Transplantation
- Commonwealth Fund Advancing Health Equity Fellowship
- Daland Fellowship in Clinical Investigation (American Philosophical Society)
- Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Research Fellowship (Biomedical Science)
- National Clinician Scholars Program
- SAGES Research Grants
- Society of University Surgeons Resident Research Scholar Award
- SSAT/SBAS Resident/Fellow Research Award
- The Plastic Surgery Foundation Grants Program - many grants
- Surgical Outcomes Club Michael Zinner HSR Fellowship
- Thoracic Surgery Foundation Resident Research Fellowship
- Thoracic Surgery Foundation Nina Starr Braunwald Research Award
Professional Development Opportunities Outside of Northwestern University
- ACS Leadership and Advocacy Summit (April)
- ACS Residents as Teachers and Leaders (March)
- AAS Fall Courses (Fundamentals of Surgical Research, Early Career Development)
Other Awards (for Travel, Research and Meetings)
- AATS Foundation Annual Meeting Awards
- ACS Jameson L. Chassin MD FACS Award for Professionalism in General Surgery
- ACS Resident Award for Exemplary Teaching
- Association of Surgical Education (ASE) Underrepresented in Medicine (URiM)
- ASE Awards - Outstanding Resident Teacher and Linnea Hauge, PhD, Promising Educational Scholar
- AWS Dr. Hilary Sanfey Outstanding Resident Award
- Society of Asian Academic Surgeons (SAAS) Esther Tsai Sugg Research Award - granted to the highest scoring abstract submitted by a SAAS member as either first or senior author to the annual Academic Surgical Congress
- SAAS Resident/Fellow Development Scholarship - for travel to AAS Fall Courses
- SAAS Annual Meeting Travel Award - for first author of the highest scoring abstract submitted by a SAAS member to the SAAS annual meeting
- SAAS-AWS Resident Research Travel Award - for travel to the annual SAAS Annual Meeting
- SVS Foundation James S.T. Yao Resident Research Award
- Vascular and Endovascular Surgical Society Grants/Awards (Many)
For Students
Funding for Students (Awards and Fellowships)
- AAS/AASF Student Diversity Travel Award
- AAS Senior Medical Student Travel Award
- American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship
- AHA Student Scholarships in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke
- AOA Carolyn Kuckein Student Research Fellowship
- ASE Promising Medical Student Surgery Education Research Award
- AWS Dr. Patricia Numann Medical Student Award
- Division of Vascular Surgery Lanterman Vascular Surgery Student Program
- Division of Vascular Surgery William H. Pearce, MD Vascular Surgery Student Program
- Harvard-Longwood Short-Term Research Training in Vascular Surgery (NIH-T35)
- Northwestern Summer Research Program for Medical Students
- SAGES Medical Student Research Award
- Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation Fellowship
- SVS Foundation Student Research Fellowship