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The 2024 Amgen Scholars Program application is now closed!

If you are a Columbia University undergraduate student and wish to be considered for the Amgen Scholars program, you should apply to the SURF program and you will automatically be considered for both programs.

The application will ask you to briefly describe your laboratory experience, career plans, and a science related finding in the last ten years that inspired you.

  • You should ask two people to write you letters of recommendation addressing your suitability for this fellowship. Specify their names and email addresses on the application form and they will receive instructions via email. Be sure to notify them before you fill in their e-mail address. All recommendations must be emailed through the application website by 5pm on February 1st, 2024. Be sure to submit your application with ample time for the people writing your recommendations to email them by February 1st.
     
  • Official Transcripts will be requested upon acceptance into the Amgen Scholars Program at Columbia University. Those accepted will be asked to arrange to have an official transcript to be emailed to: [email protected]
  • Acceptance into the Amgen scholars program requires that you:
     
    • Work in the designated lab for 10 weeks following Memorial Day
    • Check the email you applied to the program with regularly  
    •  Not attend classes, or hold another job or volunteer position during the term of the Program
    • Attend the weekly meetings including the intensive safety instruction lectures at the beginning of the Amgen Scholars Program
    • Present your research during a weekly meeting
    • Participate in the seminar on scientific communication skills
    • Discuss lab results during a weekly lab meeting at least once during the summer
    • Not have participated in Amgen Scholars previously
    • Adhere to the Amgen Scholars Program/Columbia University Code of Conduct
    • Sign and return 
    • Not work, volunteer, or study anywhere else during the term of the Program
    • Attend the Amgen Scholars National Symposium in California, the third weekend in July
    • Submit a research article of your findings as an electronic file in pdf form, signed by principal investigator
    • Notify us of any published articles on which your name appears that concern research you performed during the Amgen Scholars Program
    • Not publish any work performed during the Amgen Scholars Program or in any CU lab without the principal investigator's approval
    • Are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident with documented proof of citizenship or permanent resident status
    • Attend the Amgen Scholars National Symposium in California, the third weekend in July
    • Adhere to the Amgen Scholars Program/Columbia University Code of Conduct
    • Live in housing provided by the Columbia University Amgen Scholars Program
    • Sign and return the Columbia University Photo Consent and Release Form
    • Provide proof of US Health Insurance
    • Complete all surveys related to the Amgen Scholars Program, both during and following completion of the Program
    • Inform us of any graduate school program you are accepted into
    • Report any additional fellowships or sources of Summer funding
    • Are you a first-time SURF applicant and have not participated in the Amgen Scholars Program at any of the host universities
    • Notify us of any published articles on which your name appears that concern research you performed during the Amgen Scholars Program
    • Report any additional fellowships or sources of Summer 2024 funding
    • Not have a bachelor's degree
    • In good academic standing 

Unfortunately, we receive many more applications than we have fellowships available. If you submit an application but are not accepted into the program, you may submit an application in future years.