Department

Programs and Associated Departments

Programs

Undergraduate

• Engineering Biology
• Global Health and Health Policy Certificate Program
• Quantitative and Computational Certficate Program
• Princeton Neuroscience Certficate Program
• Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Graduate

• Diversity Program
• MD/PhD Program
• PhD Program in Neuroscience

Community

• Outreach Program
• Summer Workshop for High School Teachers

Associated Institutes

HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE

• HHMI Investigators

• The Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
• Princeton Neuroscience Institute

Associated Departments

• Chemical & Biological Engineering
• Chemistry
• Computer Science
• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Physics

Funding Opportunities

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The following is list of grant-awarding agencies:

• AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships - - Fellowships in Congress
• AAUW-International Fellowship
• Alpha-1 Foundation
• ALS Association
• Alternative Research and Development Foundation
• American Association of Cancer Research
• American Association of University Women - American Fellowship
• American Association of University Women (International Fellowships)
• American Cancer Society
• American Diabetes Association: Mentor-Based Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
• American Federation for Aging Research: Ellison Medical Foundation/AFAR Postdoctoral Fellows in Aging Research Program
• American Health Assistance Foundation - Alzheimer's Disease Research
• American Heart Association
• American Institute for Cancer Research
• American Lung Association
• American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program
• American Society for Microbiology: ASM/CDC Program in Infectious Disease and Public Health Microbiology
• American Society for Microbiology-Congressional Science Fellowship Application
• Angelman Syndrome Foundation: The Dr. Joseph E. Wagstaff Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
• Arthritis Foundation - Investigator Award
• Arthritis National Research Foundation
• Autism Science Foundation
• Autism Speaks
• AWIS Educational Foundation Predoctoral Award
• AXA Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011
• Bone Marrow Failure Research Program (BMFRP) Post-doctoral Award
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund - Career Awards at the Scientific Interface
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund - Career Awards for Medical Scientists
• Cancer Research Institute
• CCFA: Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America
• Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Fellowship
• Damon-Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
• Davis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Eating Disorders Research
• DoD - Department of Defense - Breast Cancer Research Program
• DoD - National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
• DoE - Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
• DoD Prostate Cancer Research Program
• Dystonia Medical Research Foundation: Cure Dystonia Initiative Fellowship
• Epilepsy Foundation of America
• European Molecular Biology Organization
• Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
• Fogarty International Center- International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA)
• Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships For Minorities
• Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
• Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities
• FRAXA Research Foundation
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center-Harold M. Weintraub GS Award
• Graduate Women in Science – Sigma, Delta & Epsilon
• Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
• Hereditary Disease Foundation-Wasmuth Postdoctoral Fellowship
• HHMI International Student Research Fellowship
• Hope Funds for Cancer Research
• Hope Street Kids
• Human Frontier Science Program - Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships
• Huntington's Disease Society of America
• Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund
• Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International
• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• Life Sciences Research Foundation
• Liver Foundation
• L'Oreal
• Lymphoma Research Foundation of America
• Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America
• National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression-Young Investigator Award
• National Ataxia Foundation
• National Psoriasis Foundation
• NCI Mentored Research Scientist Development Award to Promote Diversity -K01
• New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research
• New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research
• New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research-Breast Cancer Fund
• New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research
• NIH - K99/R00: Pathway to Independence
• NIH - Research Scholar Development Award (K22)
• NIH: Career Development Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research (K01)
• NIH-Individual Posdoctoral National Research Service Award Fellowships (F32)
• NIH-Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award
• NIH - Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows
• NIH: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
• NIH-Individual Predoctoral Fellowship
• NSERC - Canada Graduate Scholarships
• NSF-Graduate Research Fellowships
• NSF – Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
• Parkinson's Disease Foundation
• PhRMA Foundation - Informatics
• PhRMA Foundation - Pharmaceutics
• PhRMA Foundation - Pharmacology/Toxicology
• PRCRP: Visionary Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
• PRCRP: Discovery Award
• Prevent Cancer Foundation
• Princeton University-Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship Program
• Princeton University-Woodrow Wilson School
• Robert D. Watkins Minority Graduate Fellowship
• SMART: Science, Mathematics, & Research for Transformation (part of the National Defense Education Program)
• Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Fellowship
• The American Foundation for Aging Research
• The Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund
• The Lalor Foundation, Inc.
• The New York Academy of Sciences - Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
• United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation
• United Negro College Fund and the Merck Research Laboratories

Department Contacts

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Locations Lewis Thomas Laboratory 119 Lewis Thomas Laboratory Washington Road Princeton, NJ 08544-1014 Schultz Laboratory Washington Road Princeton, NJ 08544-1014 Moffett Laboratory Washington Road Princeton, NJ 08544-1014 Icahn Laboratory Lewis-Sigler Instutute of Integrative Genomics Washington Road Princeton, NJ 08544-1014 Guyot Hall Washington Road Princeton, NJ 08544-1014

Administration & Staff

Faculty Honors and Awards

2011-2012 Senior Faculty Members

	Bonnie L. Bassler American Philosophical Society Award, 2012 Royal Society Fellowship Award, 2012 Honorary Degree, Tufts University, 2012 Honorary Degree, Bates College, 2012 L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Award, 2011 The National Academy of Sciences recipient of the 2011 Richard Lounsbery Award
	David Botstein Dan David Prize Laureate, 2012
	Elizabeth R. Gavis President, The North American Drosophila Board of Directors
	Yibin Kang AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research, 2012 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, 2011
	Leon Rosenberg McKusick Leadership Award, American Society of Human Genetics, 2011
	Gertrud M. Schüpbach Honorary Degree, University of Zurich, Switzerland
	Jean E. Schwarzbauer President, American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB) Keynote speaker, 50th Anniversary of CMB Grad Program, UW-Madison
	Thomas E. Shenk Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg Lifetime Achievement Award in Biomedical Sciences, Stanford Medical Center
	Thomas J. Silhavy Appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Bacteriology
	John Storey Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012 Desai et al. (2011) PLoS Medicine chosen as “Genome Advance of the Month” by NHGRI
	David W. Tank Lawrence Katz Prize, Duke University
	Samuel S. Wang Appointed to the Rita Allen Board of Directors
	Ned Wingreen Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
	Virginia A. Zakian Barnum Museum Lecture, Tufts University President’s Lecture series, Princeton University

2011-2012 Junior Faculty Members

	Ileana Cristea Early Career Awardin Mass Spectometry, 2011
	Benjamin A. Garcia Sloan Research Fellowship Award, 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2011 Profiled as a “Young Investigator” by the ProteoMonitor Website New Jersey American Chemical Society Early Career Award in Mass Spectrometry
	Mala Murthy McKnight Scholar Award, 2012 Awarded National Science Foundation's CAREER Award HFSP (Human Frontiers Science Program) Young Investigator research grant, 2011 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 2011