Medical Student Fellowship

Weill Cornell Neurosurgery Medical Student Fellowship

The Weill Cornell Medical Student Neurosurgery Fellowship Program allows medical students to explore research careers in pediatric neuro-oncology, based on an investigative platform with a primary focus on Central Nervous System (CNS) tumors in children. Research may be translational, basic-scientific or clinical and requires a sponsor with a full-time faculty appointment at Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center or Rockefeller University. Weill Cornell Medicine Graduate School Neuroscience Program courses are also integrated into the year-long program. Applicants must be in good academic standing at an accredited medical school in North America and willing to take one year off from their formal academic schedule. The fellowship may be conducted any time after a student has completed a minimum of two years of medical college.

Fellowship Director

Mark Souweidane, M.D.
Professor, Vice Chair
(212) 746-2363

Application Instructions

Application materials must be completed no later than December 31 of the year before the fellowship year applied for. Applications are reviewed by the Fellowship Advisory Panel. Announcements are made by March 15 of the fellowship year.

The application consists of the following:

  • scientific proposal (title, objective(s), background, methods and impact: three-page limit without references)
  • letters of reference (two)
  • sponsoring principal investigator letter of support
  • student affairs or dean’s letter of commitment from a parent institution (which must be an accredited medical school in North America)

Send application materials to neurosurgery-pedsfellow@med.cornell.edu.

If selected for the fellowship, candidates are required to sign an institutional commitment letter in order to accept.

We provide awardees with a stipend of $32,000 for their research year, as well as support for directly applicable publication, travel and meeting registration costs.

Neurological Surgery 525 E. 68th St., Starr 651, Box 99 New York, NY 10065