The AbbVie Immunology Scholarship aims to help reduce the financial burden for students impacted by inflammatory diseases.
Each year, AbbVie recognizes exceptional students who demonstrate resilience, academic excellence, and community involvement while living with an inflammatory disease. Through this scholarship and our passion for patient care, we seek to empower students as they pursue a degree and a life that is not defined by their disease. As of 2025, awards are renewable for up to three additional years or until a bachelor’s or graduate degree is earned, whichever occurs first, on the basis that certain requirements are met.
Diseases
If you live with any of the below diseases, you might qualify for the AbbVie Immunology Scholarship.
- Ankylosing spondylitis (AS)
- Atopic dermatitis (AD)
- Crohn’s disease (CD)
- Giant cell arteritis (GCA)
- Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS)
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)
- Juvenile psoriatic arthritis (jPsA)
- Plaque psoriasis (Ps)
- Psoriatic arthritis (PsA)
- Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
- Ulcerative colitis (UC)
- Uveitis (UV)
Apply
The AbbVie Immunology Scholarship application is currently closed. Click below to be notified when the application opens for the 2027-2028 school year.
Notify Me2025-2026 Recipients
Avery Brooks
Recipient
Baylor College of Medicine
This scholarship enables me to focus fully on my training without the burden of financial strain, allowing me to provide the highest quality care to my future patients as a physician assistant.
Living with juvenile idiopathic arthritis has profoundly shaped my journey, especially as a college athlete. What once felt like insurmountable limitations are now opportunities to cultivate resilience, grit, and a deeper empathy for others. Each day presents unique challenges, such as discerning the difference between arthritic pain and the expected soreness that comes from intense collegiate training, balancing academic responsibilities and work against the essential need for rest, and managing medications, insurance, and appointments while living far from home.
From an early age, my providers instilled in me a conviction that my diagnosis does not define me. Instead, they showed me that self-awareness, effective communication, and perseverance are tools that enable me to pursue any passion. This perspective has shaped how I approach adversity: I focus on controlling what is within my reach, and I lean into the strength found in community. My treatment team, coaches, teammates, mentors, and mentees have each shown me that while our challenges may differ, hardship is a universal experience, and through mutual empathy and encouragement, we can push one another past our perceived limitations.
Evin St. Clair
Recipient
University of Virginia
For me, this scholarship means building on my commitment to making a difference through supporting my educational experience. As an aspiring software engineer, I’m passionate about building technologies that expand access, raise awareness, and improve socioeconomic mobility in communities around the world.
Snehi Shah
Recipient
The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
I’m honored to receive this scholarship and excited to represent both the UC community and my school as I pursue a career in medicine focused on compassionate care.
Ulcerative colitis is persistent in my life—sometimes disruptive, usually quietly burdensome, but always shaping the way I move through the world. Chronic abdominal pain, unpredictable bowel urgency, sleepless nights, and the need to meticulously plan every outing around bathroom access are not just medical symptoms; they are daily reminders of a body that defies predictability and a life defined, partly, by invisible suffering. Perhaps the most isolating aspect of this disease is precisely that invisibility, when pain, fatigue, and limitation are met not with understanding but with disbelief or minimization.
Despite ongoing flares and emotional tolls of chronic illness, I’ve persisted in my education and pursuit of medicine. To any student living with chronic inflammatory disease, I would say that your experience gives you a unique strength. You should advocate for your needs, embrace flexibility, and never let shame convince you that you are less capable.
FAQ
Any more questions, please contact us at email: [email protected] | Phone: 1-507-931-0651
The AbbVie Immunology Scholarship is committed to supporting students living with an inflammatory disease who are seeking an undergraduate or graduate degree from an accredited university or college in the United States.
To be eligible to apply, applicants must be:
- A US citizen or a legal and permanent resident of the US.
- Diagnosed with AS, AD, CD, GCA, HS, JIA, jPsA, Ps, PsA, RA, UC, or UV by a healthcare professional.
- Planning to enroll in full-time undergraduate or graduate studies at an accredited two-year or four-year college, university, or vocational technical school for the entire upcoming academic year.
- Applicants must have completed high school or obtained a General Education Development (GED) certificate.
You are not eligible if:
- You are an employee of AbbVie or their immediate family member.
- You are a healthcare provider or their immediate family member.
- You are a patient contracted by AbbVie through Patient Health Perspectives.
The AbbVie Immunology Scholarship provides financial support for exceptional students living with inflammatory diseases like: ankylosing spondylitis (AS), atopic dermatitis (AD), Crohn’s disease (CD), giant cell arteritis (GCA), hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), juvenile psoriatic arthritis (jPsA), psoriasis (Ps), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ulcerative colitis (UC), or uveitis (UV).
Submission guidelines are included in the application. By participating, applicants agree to the rules and the decisions of the judges and/or sponsors, which are binding and final on matters relating to this scholarship.
