Biochemistry Scholarships and Awards
All BMB Graduate Students are supported 100% for one year after passing their qualifying exams.
In addition, the Department of Biochemistry offers several scholarships and awards to BMB students. Details on the awards, including eligibility criteria and type of funding, can be found below.
For further details or to apply for any of the scholarships or awards, please contact the Chair of the BMB Training Committee, Yuna Ayala, Ph.D., via email.
Biochemistry Ph.D. and M.D./Ph.D. students may be appointed as Doisy Scholars at any time after passing the qualifying exam. Doisy Scholarship is an honor reserved for students who have distinguished themselves academically through course work and have achieved scholarly recognition through peer-reviewed publications and poster/oral presentations at meetings or extramural fellowships.
The stipend and student fees of a Doisy Scholar are supported in full by the BMB Doisy Fund for 24 months. The Doisy Scholar will also receive a cash award each year from the BMB Doisy Fund.
Current Doisy Scholars can be viewed on the Doisy Scholar webpage.
The Jo and Carmine Coscia Graduate Research Award recognizes a promising Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. student in their first year in the BMB graduate program with a cash award.
Students must choose a PI mentor who is a full-time faculty member of the Biochemistry Department. Award duration is for one year.
The Katzman Fellowship award is available to M.D/Ph.D. students entering the BMB graduate program after their pre-clerkship training in medical school.
The Philip and Lillian Katzman Scholarship Fund was established by the family of Dr. Philip Katzman, a former faculty member in the department, to encourage research training of medical students. The fellowship provides $30,000/year toward the tuition of the last two years of medical training.
The Abdul Waheed Scholarship is available to one Ph.D. and one M.D./Ph.D. student per year who plan to join the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Program.
Candidates must apply and be accepted by Saint Louis University as a classified (degree-seeking) student in the Biomedical Sciences Core Graduate Program as a new Ph.D. student. Candidates will indicate interest in the Abdul Waheed Scholarship at the time of application. M.D./Ph.D. students may apply to the scholarship at the beginning of the Ph.D. years, provided they have chosen a faculty mentor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
The Scholarship provides three years of funding to Ph.D. students and one year of funding to M.D./Ph.D. students.
