NIGMS Student Training Flyer

NIGMS Student Training Flyer [PDF 354KB]

Interested in a Research Career?

• Make new discoveries
• Work with interesting people
• Fight disease
• Be creative
• Explore life processes
• Use high-tech tools
• Answer important questions
• Help people stay healthy

WE CAN HELP!

Find out how to get funding for your graduate education in the biomedical or behavioral sciences from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health.

HERE’S HOW IT WORKS

We give grants to schools to support some of the best research training programs in the country.

You apply to a school’s graduate program and if accepted, you could get tuition, a stipend and other funds for your educational expenses.

If you are a U.S. citizen, non-citizen national or permanent resident who wants to pursue a Ph.D. or M.D.-Ph.D. in biomedical or behavioral research, you may be eligible for support on one of our training grants.

Our goal is to develop an outstanding scientific workforce that reflects the diversity of the U.S. population, so we especially encourage students who are members of groups that are underrepresented in biomedical or behavioral research as well as students with disabilities to apply for our training programs.

ABOUT OUR TRAINING GRANTS

Our grants train about 3,000 Ph.D. and M.D.-Ph.D. students in more than
250 programs at 273 schools across the country in 12 research areas:

• Behavioral-Biomedical Sciences Interface
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Biostatistics
• Biotechnology
• Cellular, Biochemical, and Molecular Sciences
• Chemistry-Biology Interface
• Genetics
• Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)
• Molecular Biophysics
• Molecular Medicine
• Pharmacological Sciences
• Systems and Integrative Biology

TELL ME MORE

For descriptions of our research training areas, see http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Training/Overview.htm.

For a list of institutions that have training grants from us and contacts for those programs, see http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Training/InstGrantLists.htm.

For general questions about our training programs, contact Dr. Alison Cole at colea@nigms.nih.gov or 301-594-3827.

TWO OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

We offer a small number of individual predoctoral fellowships for students with disabilities and students from groups underrepresented in the biomedical sciences. You can pursue a Ph.D. or M.D.-Ph.D. degree at any U.S. institution. Before applying for a fellowship from us, you must be accepted or enrolled in a graduate program.

For more information, contact Dr. Adolphus Toliver at tolivera@nigms.nih.gov or 301-594-3900.

Another program gives extra funds to scientists who have research grants from us, allowing them to bring students from underrepresented minority groups, students with disabilities or students from certain types of disadvantaged backgrounds to work in their labs.

For more information, contact Dr. John Whitmarsh at whitmarj@nigms.nih.gov or 301-451-6446.