Fellowships

The Irving H. Wiesenfeld, the Kathleen L. Miller and the Sidney Mac Donald Russell Family Graduate Fellowships

The Irving H. Wiesenfeld, the Kathleen L. Miller and the Sidney Mac Donald Russell Family Graduate Fellowships provide professional development funds for UC Berkeley graduate students engaged in the study of emerging and neglected infectious diseases, including basic science, discovery of effective treatments, diagnostics, and vaccines, or policy, law, economics in the context of national or global health.

Award Amount: Up to $5,000
Application Deadline for 2024 is May 6th, 2024.
Application Guidelines: A complete application package must be submitted to cend@berkeley.edu by May 6th, 2024 at midnight. This includes a CV, description of current research, professional development proposal, budget, and recommendation from one faculty mentor. You can click here to download the application instructions.

The Thomas C. Alber Science & Engineering for Global Health Fellowship

The Thomas C. Alber Science & Engineering for Global Health Fellowship is named after Dr. Tom Alber, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and founding Faculty Director of CEND. Dr. Alber believed that scientists from across the UC Berkeley campus have the potential to make an impact on our understanding of diseases that disproportionately affect the world's poor as evidenced by his own contributions to the tuberculosis and HIV fields in his career as a structural biologist. In recognition of Dr. Alber's contributions to CEND, Henry "Sam" Wheeler, Jr. is allowing CEND to use part of his gift to fund the S&E fellowship in Dr. Alber's honor.

The Alber S&E fellowship program provides professional development funds to early-career researchers in CEND-affiliated labs who are interested in conducting infectious disease research or drug discovery/high-throughput screening.

Award Amount: Up to $5,000
Application Deadline for 2024 is May 6th, 2024.
Application Guidelines: As part of the application, you must write about your current research project(s) and develop a proposal on what you intend to do with the funding, including a budget and an explanation of how it will support your professional development. Applicants must also submit their CV and a recommendation from a CEND-affiliated faculty. You can click here to download the application instructions.