DukeMed Alumni News
Winter 2008

In Brief:

New Chancellor's Scholarship to Support Biomedical Students

Victor J. Dzau, MD, chancellor for health affairs for Duke University, has announced a new Chancellor’s Scholarship that will provide $1.6 million in funding for biomedical graduate students who are not eligible for support on National Institutes of Health (NIH) training grants.

The Chancellor’s Scholarship will provide a means of attracting outstanding international applicants and also award a limited number of one-time merit supplements to especially talented domestic graduate students to augment
their NIH-funded stipends.

“Until now, there has been very limited financial support available for outstanding graduate students applying from outside of the U.S. Increasingly, international students are becoming an important pipeline of outstanding young scientists at Duke and in the U.S. This new scholarship program will allow Duke to tap this vital resource and to attract and reward our most distinguished domestic
applicants, too,” said Dzau.