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Predoctoral applicants must have identified a research sponsor and propose a dissertation research project that clearly enhances the applicant's potential to develop into a productive, independent scientist. The dissertation project needs to be related to the sponsor's research area and should include a promising approach to the problem, with a strong training potential.
Fellowship awards support training in fields within the NIGMS mission. We encourage applications from students at institutions not already funded by NIGMS T32 training grants.
Research training and career development are important objectives for the fellowship. The applicant and research sponsor may wish to review available institutional programs and/or experienced trainers and describe how these will contribute to the proposed fellowship.
Doctoral students are likely to begin graduate research under close supervision and direction from the research sponsor, while acquiring skills, knowledge and often, pilot observations necessary to propose next steps in research. The research training potential of a proposed project may incorporate aims, collaborators, technical approaches new to the sponsor's research program, with a description of how the fellow will achieve them.
No. NIGMS offers predoctoral fellowships for students who are in a Ph.D., M.D.-Ph.D. or other combined professional-Ph.D. degree program in the biomedical sciences.
No. NIGMS predoctoral F30 fellowships support medical training only as part of the combined M.D.-Ph.D. degree at institutions that are not currently supported by the NIH-funded Medical Scientist Training Program. The purpose of this F30 fellowship is to prepare students for careers in biomedical research.
NIH and NIGMS provide several forms of support for students from underrepresented groups, including the F30, F31 and the Diversity Supplement Program.
NIGMS supports basic biomedical research areas that might also be of interest to the National Science Foundation and various foundations or others. It is important to demonstrate that the sponsor's lab has sufficient research funds to support the proposed research.
NIGMS will give priority for funding to applicants who have not already held a fellowship award. NIGMS will not fund a predoctoral applicant who currently holds another fellowship award that essentially duplicates the support that would be received under the NRSA application.
NIGMS provides a listing of the current funded programs.
No. NIGMS expects the dissertation research to be completed at the sponsoring institution or, under extenuating circumstances, ?at another U.S. institution that does not have an NIGMS-supported MSTP.
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