Funding

Summer Student Program funding

Each year, the Summer Student Program is funded by grants and philanthropy. We are honored to receive funding support from:      

• Alumni of The Jackson Laboratory
• Carolyn Hansen Montgomery Education Fund
• Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute EXROP Program
• NIH / National Cancer Institute  
• NIH / National Human Genome Research Institute
• NIH / National Institute on Drug Abuse
• NIH / National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
• National Science Foundation
• Petit Family Foundation

The Jackson Laboratory is a participant in the Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence, with funding from the NIH / National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

Endowed funds that support the Summer Student Program are named for the following individuals and organizations:

• Allen C. Schroeder Endowed Fund
• Barbara H. Sanford Endowed Scholarship Fund 
• The Betterment Fund
• Clarence Cook Little Scholarship Fund 
• Clark Foundation
• Edmund Kerper Fund
• Edwin D. Murphy Scholarship Fund 
• Elizabeth S. Russell Scholarship Fund
• The Endowment for Science Education
• James B. Murphy Memorial Scholarship 
• Jane D. Weinberger Endowed Scholarship Fund
• Nathan Kaliss Scholarship Fund
• Richard & Sally Fox Endowed Fund
• The William Randolph Hearst Foundations