2026 Summer Fellowship Applications are now being accepted.
2026 Fellowship 2 page Application to download and print
The Student Summer Fellowship Program is for bright, motivated undergraduate or first year graduate or medical students who are considering a career in neuroscience to be mentored in a U.S. lab.
2025 IES Brain Research Foundation Summer Fellows in Neuroscience:
- Damini Nair working with Nikki Crowley, PhD at Penn State University on Alcohol Use Disorder
IES Brain Research Foundation Monique C. & George L. Braude Summer Fellowship in Neuroscience
- Ateendra Subramanian working with Vibhu Sahni, PhD at Weil Cornell Medicine on Paralysis and Movement Disorders
- Jessica Tai working with Jayeeta Basu, PhD at NYU School of Medicine on Alzheimer’s Disease
IES Brain Research Foundation Monique C. & George L. Braude Summer Fellowship in Neuroscience
- Louis Weber working with Bonnie Firestein, PhD at Rutgers University on Traumatic Brain Injury
As of this summer, this totally volunteer run will have given 120 Summer Fellowships in Neuroscience to bright, motivated undergrads, med & grad students interested in brain research!
The fellowships are made possible by all who attend the fundraising events and those who donate. Thank you for helping and continuing to help us fight brain diseases, and to all those who have participated in events and made generous donations.
Online Donations
Please help this important work continue! Click on the Donate button below to donate to IES Brain Research Foundation. For a $2500 tax deductible donation, you can attach a name of a person or business to a fellowship and indicate the area/disease to which you prefer the donation to be earmarked, if possible. Donations of all sizes are tax deductible and greatly appreciated.