NIGMS Student Training Flyer

NIGMS Student Training Flyer [PDF 468KB]

Interested in a Research Career?

• Solve challenging problems
• 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 graduate 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, noncitizen 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 encourage students who are members of groups that are underrepresented in the biomedical, clinical, behavioral and social sciences to apply to our training programs. Underrepresented groups currently include African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and Alaska Natives, natives of the U.S. Pacific Islands, and individuals with disabilities.

KNOW YOUR PH.D. AREA?

We have more than 230 programs across the country that train about 2,100 Ph.D. students each year in 11 research areas:

• Behavioral-Biomedical Sciences Interface
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Biostatistics
• Biotechnology
• Cellular, Biochemical, and Molecular Sciences
• Chemistry-Biology Interface
• Genetics
• Molecular Biophysics
• Molecular Medicine
• Pharmacological Sciences
• Systems and Integrative Biology

WANT A COMBINED M.D.PH.D.?

We have more than 40 Medical Scientist Training Programs across the country that train over 900 combined-degree students each year.

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. Clifton Poodry at poodryc@nigms.nih.gov or 301-594-3900.

NIGMS is a part of the National Institutes of Health that supports basic research to increase our understanding of life processes and lay the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention. For more information on the Institute's research and training programs, see http://www.nigms.nih.gov.

Content reviewed January 2013