Diversity in research and scholarly activity enriches the educational experience, both individually and collectively, by fostering the free exchange of individual ideas and experiences. The CTRD Training grant, and all of the participating academic departments at Indiana University, are strongly committed to providing a welcoming environment for students. All applicants will be given equal consideration regardless of race, gender, or ethnicity. There is one restriction: NIH-supported trainees must be citizens, non-citizen nationals or permanent residents of the US.

In addition, the CTRD-affiliated departments actively assist students with applications for many prestigious internal and external fellowships. In addition, students receive funding through the James P. Holland Graduate Fellowship or the Partnership Fellowship. The latter two fellowships provide stipend and tuition support to PhD students in the biomedical/life sciences.

Graduate students and post-doctoral fellows from CTRD-affiliated departments have traditionally represented a mix of equal numbers of females and males, who come from a wide variety of universities and colleges throughout the country as well as a number of foreign countries, including Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Romania, Spain, Taiwan, and Turkey.