Stuck without funding?

[CBG23]

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Hi,

I am a medical student who is currently on leave from my school because of a family/ medical issue and will be working in a lab for the year. However, I currently do NOT have any funding - I have been offered/ accepted a position in a lab already. I did not make it a priority to secure funding for this position because it was close to my family geographically. However, I am realizing that it may be difficult without any sort of funding for the year and was wondering if there were any funding opportunities provided to medical students on a rolling basis - I know a lot of the big one have due dates in Dec/Jan/Feb., but I was wondering if there were any that I could apply to even though I have already started my year in the lab. I wouldn't even begin to know where to look. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated,

P.S. My home institution does not fund projects done outside the institution...

 

[solitude]

Hi,

I am a medical student who is currently on leave from my school because of a family/ medical issue and will be working in a lab for the year. However, I currently do NOT have any funding - I have been offered/ accepted a position in a lab already. I did not make it a priority to secure funding for this position because it was close to my family geographically. However, I am realizing that it may be difficult without any sort of funding for the year and was wondering if there were any funding opportunities provided to medical students on a rolling basis - I know a lot of the big one have due dates in Dec/Jan/Feb., but I was wondering if there were any that I could apply to even though I have already started my year in the lab. I wouldn't even begin to know where to look. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated,

P.S. My home institution does not fund projects done outside the institution...

this might be a stupid idea but why don't you just ask your PI? They pay most salaries of grad students and postdocs, so why not yours too?

 

[Brunette1981]

True, if they officially hired you for the year, they probably have to pay you legally.

It depends on what your official position in the lab is (rotating graduate student, lab tech, etc) and the field, to some extent (eg, basically all science grad students get paid by their PIs, if you do something less traditional like business or sociology, you may have to fund yourself through teaching).