Grants & Funding

Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America Foundation (PhRMA)

Published Date: September 12, 2006

Program Information

Program Name:

Medical Student Research Fellowships

Program URL:

http://phrmafoundation.org/awards/clinical/medstudent.phtml

Type of Scientists Funded:

Medical Student, MD/PhD Student

Program Description:

The fellowship is offered to medical/dental/veterinary students who have substantial interests in research and teaching careers in pharmacology - clinical pharmacology and who are willing to spend full-time in a specific research effort within a pharmacology or clinical pharmacology unit. Fellowships are available for a minimum period of three months or any period of time up to 12 months with a maximum stipend of $18,000. The commitment must be full-time. For a fellowship less than one year, it must begin and end within the academic year beginning July 1. The student may undertake this investigative effort at his own school or at another institution.

The principal aim of this program is to generate interest in research careers in pharmacology, including clinical pharmacology, among medical, dental and veterinary students. Students who are not already in a training sequence leading to a research career or students already in an M.D./Ph.D. program for whom additional financial support is appropriate are both eligible to apply. Awards will not be made to a student in a M.D./Ph.D. program who will have been awarded the M.D. degree before the beginning of July 1, 2007.

Depending on the particular medical school curriculum and the length of the fellowship, the student may have to interrupt his scholastic training to enable the full-time requirement of the program to be satisfied

Public Contact Information

Program Award Term and Application Process

• Award Term Fixed or Variable?    Variable
• Minimum Term    3  Months
• Maximum Term    24  Months
• Award Renewable?    No
• Does an individual or institution apply to the program?    Individual
• Is there an application deadline?    Yes
• Application deadline(s):
  09/01/2006

Program FUNDS

• Stipend Information:
  
  
• Annual stipend type:    Variable
• Minimum:    $ 1500
• Maximum:    $ 18000
• Stipend Details:   
  The program offers a stipend of up to $1500 per month. It is expected that this stipend will be distributed to the fellow in regular payments over the period of the fellowship by the recipient school. The fellowship is made to the institution on behalf of the student and the institution must agree to administer the funds.
• 
  Research Allowance Information:
  
  
• Annual research allowance type:    Not Applicable
• 
  Indirect Costs (Institutional Funds) Information:
  
  
• Indirect costs type:    Not Applicable
• 
  Other Costs Information:
  
  
• Other Costs type:    Not Applicable

Program Eligibility Requirements

Research Areas:

Clinical Research, Pharmacology

Application by invitation or nomination only?

No

Are awards limited to specific groups?

None provided

Must applicants be U.S. citizens and/or permanent residents?

Yes

Details:

US citizen or US permanent resident

U.S. geographic limits?

No

International geographic limits?

Institutional limits?

Yes

Details

Academic institutions.

Non-research activity allowed for postdoctoral and junior faculty awards?

Yes

If yes, specify at least one of the following: percentage time and activities allowed

• Time:    80%
• Activity Description:    Research.

• Other eligibility requirements:   
  A candidate must be enrolled in a United States medical/dental school and have finished at least one year of the school curriculum. Priority consideration will be given to those candidates who project strong commitments to careers in the field of clinical pharmacology. The applicant must be sponsored by the pharmacology or clinical pharmacology program in which the investigative project is to be undertaken. The sponsoring unit must have a demonstrated commitment to training in the fields of pharmacology or clinical pharmacology.

  As clinical pharmacology is a part of the broad field of pharmacology, the specific research project conducted during the tenure of the fellowship may be in any area of pharmacology.

  Before an individual is eligible to apply for a PhRMA Foundation award, the applicant must first have a firm commitment from a university in the U.S. Applications must be submitted by an accredited U.S. school, and all applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

  Please refer to the website for more information http://phrmafoundation.org/awards/medsturesearch/index.html

Program competition information

• Number of Applicants in Most Recent Competition Year:   
• Number of Awards in Most Recent Competition Year:   
• Institutional Award Rates   

  Category	# Applicants	# Awards
  Institutional Awards

• Awardee's subsequent careers/accomplishments tracked after end of term?    Yes
  Please refer to the website for more information http://phrmafoundation.org/awards/medsturesearch/index.html
• Total dollars awarded in the most recent competition year