Announcing New Pritzker Institute Doctoral Fellowship Program
The Pritzker Institute is pleased to announce a major revision of the Pritzker Fellowship Program, for PhD students enrolling at Illinois Tech for the Fall 2026 semester.
In this newly structured fellowship program, 3-year tuition and stipend fellowship awards will be made to highly-qualified new doctoral students who are pursuing doctoral studies and research in Biomedical Science or Engineering, and are being mentored by Pritzker Institute-affiliated faculty members at Illinois Tech.
The Pritzker Institute plans to award up to five (5) fully-funded 3-year fellowships. The award process will be highly-competitive. These fellowships are restricted to new incoming doctoral candidates who enter an Illinois Tech PhD program in the 2026 Fall semester.
Details about the formal application process will be posted on this website in the near future. Promotion material will be distributed nationwide by the start of the Fall 2025 semester. We urge faculty members to start recruiting new highly-qualified PhD students immediately.
A tentative timetable for key events of this new fellowship program is:
- Applications open: September 1, 2025
- Deadline for candidate fellows to submit application: January 15, 2026
- Candidate interviews: Feb 15 – March 15, 2026
- Applications reviews completed: March 30
- Notification of awards: April 15, 2026
- Fellowship Start Date: Fall 2026 (first date of classes)