PhRMA Foundation Translational Medicine Predoctoral 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.
Predoctoral Fellowship Eligibility:
- Applicants (U.S. and non-U.S. citizens) must attend an accredited U.S. university as full-time, in-residence students and expect to complete their PhD after December 31, 2027.
- Applicants must have completed most of their pre-thesis requirements (at least two years of coursework) and be engaged in thesis research as PhD candidates by the time the award is activated. Award activation can begin as early as April 1, 2027, or as late as December 1, 2027.
- Applicants enrolled in MD/PhD programs should not be engaged in required clinical coursework or clerkships while the fellowship is active. Fellows are expected to devote full time (including summers) to their research.
- Applicants who have not authored a publication or presented a poster are ineligible.
- The predoctoral fellowship is not intended to fund work already supported by a principal investigator’s active grants.
- 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-F award.
- An individual may not simultaneously hold another funding mechanism providing stipend support while the PhRMA Foundation predoctoral fellowship is active. If necessary, the university may supplement the Foundation’s award to a level that is consistent with other predoctoral 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.