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Graduate and Medical Education Programs
Through its Graduate and Medical Education Programs, HHMI seeks to expand the nation's pool of medically trained researchers; promote interdisciplinary, graduate-level research training; and integrate medicine into biomedical research training. The program also seeks to provide graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and newly independent scientists with courses and other resources that will help them succeed in their research careers.
Research Training Fellowships for Medical Students (Medical Fellows Program)
Medical, dental, and veterinary students from U.S. schools receive support for a year of full-time biomedical research training at an academic or nonprofit research institution in the United States or abroad if the mentor is affiliated with a U.S. institution. Fellowships are awarded through an annual competition.
HHMI-NIH Research Scholars (Cloister) Program
Medical, dental, and veterinary students from U.S. schools receive support for a year of full-time biomedical research training at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Students are selected through an annual competition. Selection of a mentor and project is made after arrival at the NIH. Scholars receive annual compensation, health insurance, moving expense reimbursement and many other benefits. A second year of research training is also possible.
Physician-Scientist Early Career Award
In this new competitive grant initiative, selected alumni of the HHMI-NIH Research Scholars Program and the HHMI Research Training Fellowships for Medical Students Program receive three-years of support as they begin their careers as independent physician-scientists.
Med Into Grad Initiative: Integrating Medical Knowledge Into Graduate Education
In this new competitive grant initiative, HHMI supports educational programs that incorporate the knowledge and skills of medicine and pathobiology into graduate education. The goal of the four-year grants is to train biomedical scientists who are better prepared to translate the discoveries of basic biological science into the treatment of human diseases.
HHMI-NIBIB Interfaces Initiative for Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Training
In partnership with the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), HHMI is launching a new competitive grant initiative to develop a cadre of Ph.D. scientists who are trained to conduct interdisciplinary research at the boundaries between the biomedical, physical, computational, and mathematical disciplines. HHMI funding will support the establishment of new interdisciplinary training programs; NIBIB funding will sustain the training programs through their vulnerable early years.
Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study
The new Gilliam fellowships initiative was created to honor its namesake, James H. Gilliam Jr., an HHMI trustee who was committed to fostering a diverse scientific community. It builds on HHMI's Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP), administered by HHMI's Undergraduate Science Education Program, which provides talented undergraduates from disadvantaged backgrounds with summer research experiences in the labs of HHMI investigators and HHMI professors. The EXROP students are selected by HHMI professors and invited directors of HHMI-funded undergraduate programs at colleges and universities. The competitive Gilliam fellowships provide up to five years of support for a small group of outstanding former EXROP students to pursue a Ph.D. in the biological sciences.
Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)
HHMI supports graduate-level courses in neurobiology, parasitology, and other topics, which provide participants with experience in current laboratory techniques. HHMI also funds scholarships so that selected applicants from the labs of HHMI international research scholars can attend the MBL course "Biology of Parasitism."
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL)
HHMI supports graduate-level lecture and laboratory courses in neurobiology, computational biology, and other topics for scientists from around the world who want to learn about recent developments and techniques from leading researchers.
Course in Scientific Management for the Beginning Academic Investigator
Courses in scientific management, held in 2002 and 2005, were sponsored by HHMI and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) for selected HHMI and BWF grantees. A book derived from the 2002 course—Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty—is available in PDF format in HHMI's Resource Center.
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