PhRMA Foundation Translation Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship Funding
The PhRMA Foundation seeks research proposals that focus on identifying unmet clinical needs and developing new diagnostic, therapeutic, and computational approaches and technologies to improve patient care.
Requirements
All proposals must clearly state a therapeutically relevant hypothesis. Applicants are expected to work with clinical collaborators to identify unmet clinical needs. Proposals that aim to corroborate results from model systems must include methods to validate findings in humans or human-relevant systems. While preferences are given to studies where applicants collect human samples, reasoning must be clearly stated in the research plan if using only human data from pre-existing biobanks.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Eligibility:
- Applicants (U.S. and non-U.S. citizens) must be based at a PhD-granting accredited U.S. university.
- Applicants must hold a PhD, PharmD, MD, or appropriate terminal research doctorate.
- Applicants must be in a postdoctoral research position at the time of LOI submission.
- Applicants are ineligible if their doctoral degree was granted before January 1, 2024.
- Applicants are ineligible if they do not have at least two first author publications.
- Applicants applying for funds to support postdoctoral work in the laboratory where their graduate work was performed will be given lower preference. One of the objectives of this fellowship is to gain new skills, and therefore, an ideal candidate will be conducting their research in a new laboratory.
- Applicants currently funded on an institutional training grant (e.g., NIH TL1, T32, T90, or T35 awards or a nonprofit/professional society equivalent) may apply if they state they will forgo the institutional training slot if funded by a PhRMA Foundation predoctoral award.
- Applicants are ineligible if they are the recipient of an NIH K99/R00 award or NIH-F award.
- An individual may not simultaneously hold another funding mechanism providing stipend support while the PhRMA Foundation postdoctoral fellowship is active. If necessary, the university may supplement the Foundation’s award to a level that is consistent with other postdoctoral fellowships it offers.
- Only one applicant per lab may apply in the Translational Medicine Program. Labs must select either a predoc, a postdoc, or a faculty member.
Award amount is $60,000 a year for up to 2 years.