The Lo Graduate Fellowship for Excellence in Stem Cell Research: 2023 Announcement

Yale Stem Cell Center is pleased to announce the 12th year of “The Lo Graduate Fellowship for Excellence in Stem Cell Research” (abbreviated as “The Lo Fellowship”). This one-year fellowship is made possible by a generous gift of endowment from the KS & Feili Lo Foundation. It is Yale Stem Cell Center’s most prestigious graduate award and is designed to recognize and support graduate students with demonstrated passion and achievement in stem cell research. Three Lo Fellowship awards will be given to outstanding senior graduate students pursuing stem cell research at Yale University, to partially defray the recipient’s stipend, with funding beginning on September 1, 2023. Each recipient will receive $28,000 in stipend support.

Eligibility

The applicant should be a Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. candidate who has successfully passed the Ph.D. qualifying exam and will be in their 4th or 5th year of graduate study by September 1, 2023. The applicant’s thesis research should be in the stem cell field in the laboratory of a Yale Stem Cell Center faculty member. Selection will be limited to one student per lab.

Deadline

Application deadline is May 31, 2023 at 11:59pm.

Application Package

Applications should contain the following four components:

1. NIH Biosketch of the applicant.
2. Information on the applicant that includes:
   1. The applicant’s year of study as of the September 1 start date.
   2. The name, title, and department of the student’s advisor.
   3. The field of study in which the degree will be granted.
      
3. A brief (two-page maximum) description of the applicant’s thesis project, including a title and a hypothesis, and summarizing past accomplishments (i.e. preliminary data) and future research. Figures are encouraged, but not required. References are not included in the 2-page limit.
4. Three letters of reference: one letter from the applicant’s thesis mentor and two letters from other faculty who know the candidate’s research and can fairly evaluate the candidate. One or both of these individuals should be members of the candidate’s thesis committee.

The applicant should send all materials, with the exception of reference letters, as a single PDF file to Valancia Ariyanayagam, Operations Manager at valancia.ariyanayagam@yale.edu. The three reference letters should be sent directly from the faculty members to Valancia Ariyanayagam. For questions about eligibility for this award, please contact Valancia Ariyanayagam at valancia.ariyanayagam@yale.edu.