Research Funding
Fellowships
CGPH - Student Summer Fellowship Program
As a part of CGPH's mission, a graduate student fellowship to support international research has been established. Under this fellowship, an award up to $5,000 will be made to qualified students to support international travel and research activities at one of the approved faculty project research sites abroad.
CEND - Science and Engineering for Global Health Fellows
UC Berkeley's new fellowship program provides short-term summer research experiences at selected sites in developing countries for Berkeley science and engineering doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. Equipped with first-hand knowledge of the complexity of health in the developed world, Berkeley students will develop new insights and approaches to the disease systems that they study. Competition for the 2009 fellowship has now closed. Please check back in December for the 2010 fellowship guidelines.
CEND - Wiesenfeld Graduate Fellows
The Irving Wiesenfeld Graduate Student Support Fund provides research funds for UC Berkeley graduate students engaged in neglected infectious disease research.
CEND - Bears Breaking Boundaries: Neglected Disease Competition
Currently, only 10 percent of global health R&D is devoted to diseases that affect 90 percent of the world's population. This contest awards student proposals thatanswer the quetion, "What could and should UC Berkeley, working with other Bay Area research institutions such as UCSF, do to combat these and other diseases?"
CEND - Screening Competition
A community research competition to identify new drug targets for neglected diseases.