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Student Research Fellowship Awards

Application Submission Deadline: March 15
Award Start Date: apx June 15

Total Award: $2,500 (indirect costs are not allowed)
Duration of Award: One time payment (project must last at least 10 weeks)

Objective: This program offers financial support for students to spend time performing research on topics relevant to inflammatory bowel disease for a minimum of 10 weeks. CCFA hopes to stimulate research interest in the areas of Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis.

Applicant Eligibility: Candidates may be undergraduate, medical or graduate students (not yet engaged in thesis research) in accredited United States institutions. Candidates may not hold similar salary support from other agencies.

Award and Requirements: Up to 16 Student Research Fellowship Awards will be available for full time research with a mentor investigating a subject relevant to IBD. Mentors may not be a relative of the applicant and may not work in their lab. The mentor must be a faculty member who directs a research project highly relevant to the study of IBD at an accredited institution. Awards will be payable to the institution, not the individual. A complete financial statement and scientific report are due September 1 of the year of the award. All publications arising from work funded by this project must acknowledge support of CCFA.

Grantees that do not fulfill all obligations of the award are prohibited from applying for additional awards.

For complete information, please download our guidelines & application forms below.

Download instructions:

  • Click on link to open Word document.
  • If given option to save, please do so on your computer, remembering where you saved it. Open the document you saved and begin filling out the forms. Submit them according to the instructions in the guidelines.
  • If not given the option to save, you need to right click on the link and select "Save Target As."
  • Save this file to your computer, remembering where you saved it. Open this document you saved and begin filing out the forms. Submit them according to the instructions in the guidelines.
  • If you do not have Microsoft Word on your computer, you will need to install software and then follow directions above.

Documents:

SRFA Guidelines

SRFA Forms

updated 5/13/08