Award for Veterinary Students | Veterinary Scholars Program

Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Student Award

The 2024 Boehringer Ingelheim Research Award for Veterinary Students Award, highlights and underscores the Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Scholar program mission of exposing veterinary students to biomedical research and potential research career paths.

The 2025 award recipient will receive $1,500 cash, be recognized at the 2025 Veterinary Scholars Symposium and if applicable will receive a travel stipend to present their work at the Symposium.

This award is open to veterinary students who participated in the summer scholar program, attended the national Veterinary Scholars Symposium, presented their work in the form of a poster, and completed their proposed project work plan by December 30^th 2024.

Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Student Award

The 2025 award recipient will receive $1,500 cash, be recognized at the 2025 Veterinary Scholars Symposium and if applicable will receive a travel stipend to present their work at the Symposium.

2024 Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Research Student Award

Kayleigh Shumaker is a DVM student at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine. She received the Research Award for Veterinary Students for her research investigating altered angiogenesis as a potential mechanism behind impaired fracture healing in Down syndrome mice. Kayleigh’s goal was to use a translational approach with animal models of disease to better human health. Kayleigh shared that her passion for veterinary medicine was amplified by her research experience.

Learn more about Kayleigh's research

2024 Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Research Student Award

Learn more about Kayleigh's research

Award Requirements:

1) A summary of the Scholar's 2024 (only) work in manuscript format,

(2) A letter from the Scholar highlighting their experiences from the summer research and committing to attend the 2025 Veterinary Symposium to present their work,

(3) A letter of recommendation from the Principal Investigator who mentored the student during the summer, and

(4) A letter of recommendation from the BIVSP Program Director of your university.

Please submit applications electronically. Applications must be received by December 30, 2024.

Hard copy submissions will not be accepted. Application requirements should be combined into one PDF.

2025 Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Student Award

Award criteria:

The Scholar, regardless of funding source, has met the criteria to be selected as a summer scholar in line with the program mission and will submit data from the 2024 summer work only.

The Scholar attended the 2025 Veterinary Scholars Symposium and presented their work in the form of a poster.

The Scholar completed the 2024 proposed project work plan as agreed with their Principal Investigator. Individual projects should include a testable hypothesis, specific objectives, description of research, and interpretation/discussion of data and findings in the form of an abstract and/or poster. Demonstration of the use of biomedical research skills in specialty fields is desirable.

The award is also open to international BIVSP scholars.

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