F99 Scholarships

Funding Opportunity Number

PCCR-F99-FY2025-01

Funding Opportunity Title 

F99 SCHOLARSHIPS

Key Dates

Announcement August 21, 2024
Due March 1, 2025

Administrative Contact

Sara Strasser (sstrasse@purdue.edu)

Funding Opportunity Description

The Purdue University Institute of Cancer Research (PICR) provides a scholarship for graduate students who have been nominated to apply for the F99 Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The scholarship is for $1200. It will be awarded to any graduate student who is selected by Purdue University to be the nominee for the NIH F99 Award and whose research areas relate to cancer or proposed postdoctoral research relates to cancer.

These scholarships will be paid directly to the student.

CLICK HERE to submit your electronic application after being selected as Purdue’s NIH F99 Nominee.

Qualifications/Restrictions

Students who have been Purdue’s Nominees for the NIH F99 Award since August 2021 and meet the above requirements are eligible for these scholarships.

Each of these scholarships will only be awarded once.

Applicant must be a Trainee Member of the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research.  Membership information and application can be found here.

Cost share

This announcement does not require cost sharing.

Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Scholarships

No limit to number of scholarships.

Scholarship Budget

The scholarship will not exceed $1,200.  See restrictions.

Scholarship Project Period

This scholarship is to be applied for within a year of the F99 nomination.

Scholarship Restrictions

This scholarship is only for students submitting an F31 grant application beginning in April 2021 to current. 

Scholarship Requirements

Required publication acknowledgement

Not applicable. 

No Cost Extension (NCE)

Not applicable.

Regulatory

Not applicable.

Scholarship Processing

These are scholarships processed through the Division of Financial Aid.   Scholarship Payment will be processed once the award is made. No action by the student required.

If the student has an outstanding balance through the Division of Financial Aid, the scholarship will be applied to their balance first.

Reporting

Not applicable.

Application Guidelines

Not applicable.

Review Criteria

  1. Cancer-relevance of the project

Announcement History And Updates

Funding Opportunity Number

Summary of Change

PICR-F99-FY2025-01

Initiation of Announcement