Anna Fuller Fund fellowships: The Center for Cancer Research (CCR) awards and administers the Anna Fuller Fund fellowship. CCR requests applications for the fellowship from the faculty.

Burroughs Wellcome Career Awards: Postdocs must be nominated by MIT in order to apply for the awards. Faculty members prepare the nominations and the Institute makes the final decisions, whereupon nominees are eligible to submit an application to Burroughs Wellcome.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards fellowships for M.D./PhD. candidates.