Ellen Luken Student Award
Ellen Luken Student Award supports neuroscience students’ extracurricular education, career-building, and networking experiences to advance their neuroscience education and research.
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Funder: Ruth K. Broad Biomedical Research Foundation
Due Dates: December 1, 2026 (December cycle) | February 1, 2027 (February cycle) | April 1, 2027 (April cycle) | June 1, 2027 (June cycle) | August 1, 2027 (August cycle) | October 1, 2027 (October cycle)
Funding Amounts: Awards typically do not exceed $1,500
Summary: Supports neuroscience students’ extracurricular educational, career-building, and networking opportunities beyond traditional department-sponsored scientific meeting attendance.
Key Information: For Duke School of Medicine PhD or MD/PhD students in their third year of study or beyond.
Description
The Ellen Luken Student Award is offered by the Ruth K. Broad Biomedical Research Foundation in partnership with the Shepard Broad Foundation. It enables selected neuroscience students to pursue prestigious and competitive extracurricular educational, career-building, and networking opportunities outside traditional, department-sponsored attendance at scientific meetings. The emphasis is on advancing students’ education and research through what they learn and how they benefit from the experience.
The program honors Ellen Luken, who served as the foundation’s Executive Director and President for more than 25 years, by promoting excellence and expanding student researchers’ horizons. All areas of neuroscience are considered, with particular encouragement for students whose work is relevant to neurodegeneration, specifically Alzheimer’s disease.
