Funding
All eligible GS grads receive a funding package of $48,420 per year (as of 7/1/25), plus a tuition waiver and health insurance. Funding is typically provided by the department during your first year and by your lab thereafter.
Outside Funding
All students should apply for outside funding. This should ideally be done early in your first or second year. Your own fellowship will look great on a resume and will also make your thesis advisor very happy…
Specifically, the department expects all students who are US citizens or permanent residents to apply for National Science Foundation fellowships. You will take a course that will prepare you for this application. NSF funding opportunities can be found at: http://www.nsfgrfp.org/
Training Grants
You may be asked to apply for funding from a training grant. Most UW training grants are interdisciplinary, so students from a variety of departments are eligible – eligibility tends to be determined by thesis advisor rather than by academic program. Grant administrators notify faculty when funding slots are available. Because these are NIH funding sources, only US citizens and permanent residents are eligible.
Other Funding Sources Include
Johns Hopkins University Graduate Fellowship List
NIH grants home page – the basic gateway into NIH grants of all types – has information links to forms, instructions, processes etc. See the left side of the page for ‘types of grants’, F series
Predoctoral NIH fellowship (F31) detail instructions – review for the full scoop on how to complete these forms, what gets included in the applications, where
they get sent and most important, the deadlines. Please remember to contact the Genome Sciences grants team 6 weeks before the deadline
To target your NIH search for funding even more specifically, check out the specific NIH institute that might support your work. Review the NIH roadmap and then check out the NIH home page for institute list.
U. S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship
National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship
AAUW International Fellowships
Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Many non-profit organizations are using a web portal for application submission called Proposal Central. This website shows a list of upcoming application deadlines, the sponsors, and provides links to the sponsors so you can find out more.
And finally, there is the primary federal application portal, grants.gov.