With dedicated support from partners including NIH, Amgen, Pew Charitable Trusts, and caring individuals, our training programs provide opportunities for students of science from the high school through post doctorate levels, crossing boundaries and cultures. They bring the best of the best to Washington, DC, to learn through intensive training, collaborative engagement, mentoring, and hands-on research the best practices clinical science and early career development.
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Amgen Scholars Program 

The Amgen Scholars Program is a training program that enables undergraduates to participate in cutting-edge research opportunities at world-class institutions. Scholars are matched with research mentors in the NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP) and spend the summer working side-by-side with some of the world’s leading scientists at the NIH’s main campus, in an environment devoted exclusively to biomedical research. 

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Dr. John L. Barr Memorial Fund

The Dr. John L. Barr Memorial Fund was established in 2004 to support the Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) fellowship program at the Clinical Center’s Pain and Palliative Care Service. The object of the fellowship is to conduct research on pain and palliative care, while encouraging young investigators to become more familiar with the importance of this field of study..

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JKTG Foundation for Health Policy IRTAs 

The Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis (JKTG) Foundation for Health and Policy continues to support Intramural Research Training Awards (IRTAs) for deserving young scholars in the NIH Intramural Training program. The goal of the program is to fund the basic research of deserving young scholars in the NIH Intramural Training program, which could help to expand the understanding of disease and could ultimately result in clinical applications. 

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Sallie Rosen Kaplan Fellowship for Women Scientists in Cancer Research 

The Sallie Rosen Kaplan Postdoctoral Fellowship for Women Scientists in Cancer Research (SRK Fellowship is a highly competitive, unpaid, annual, one-year program that provides additional mentoring opportunities, networking, seminars and workshops to female National Cancer Institute (NCI) postdoctoral fellows to help them prepare for the competitive job market and help them to transition to independent research careers. 

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Medical Research Scholars Program

The Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP) addresses the critical need for a pipeline of talented medical scientists capable of turning promising research into life-changing treatments. Launched in 2012, this one-year intensive training program on the NIH campus offers up to 50 medical, dental and veterinary students opportunities to become engaged in research early in their careers. 

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Robert Whitney Newcomb Memorial Fund 

Beginning in 2001, the Robert Whitney Newcomb Memorial Fund has endowed an annual lecture in neuroscience and one or more internships per year for high-school students and graduate fellows at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).

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Dean R. O'Neill Renal Cell Cancer Research Fund 

The Dean R. O’Neill Renal Cell Cancer Research Fund at the FNIH supports a Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Richard Childs at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to search for a cure for renal cell carcinoma. With the support of the O’Neill Fund, the Fellow in Dr. Childs’ lab explores treatments such as allogeneic stem cell transplantation, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, vaccine therapy and drug treatments. 

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NINDS/CNSF Getch Scholar Awards Program

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) – Congress of Neurological Surgeons Foundation (CSNF) Getch Scholar Awards aim to increase the number of neurosurgeon-scientists who are trained to conduct research into neurological disorders. This award is part of a larger, ongoing NINDS national career development program that is intended for neurosurgeons who possess unique clinical and research skills that identify them as the next generation of neurosurgical leaders. 

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Pew Latin American Fellows Program 

The Pew Latin American Fellows Program provides support for young scientists from Latin America to receive postdoctoral training in the United States. The program gives these individuals an opportunity to further their scientific knowledge by promoting exchange and collaboration between investigators in the United States and Latin America resulting in advances in research in Latin America. 

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Norman P. Salzman Memorial Symposium and Awards 
in Basic and Clinical Virology 

The Norman P. Salzman Memorial Symposium and Awards in Basic and Clinical Virology is presented to outstanding postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and postbaccalaureate trainees working in intramural laboratories at the NIH, FDA, Fort Detrick Laboratories, LEIDOS, USDA or Uniformed Services University of the Health Services (USUHS). The Symposium and Awards are hosted by the FNIH, the NIH Virology Interest Group and the Salzman Organizing Committee. The symposium highlights current research of eminent extramural and NIH intramural virologists. 

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Roth Fellowship for CAEBV-HV Research

The Roth Fellowship for CAEBV-HV Research was established in 2014 to support a two-year fellowship in the laboratory of Jeffrey I. Cohen, MD, Chief of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Chief of the Medical Virology Section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The fellow conducts research to accelerate efforts in finding new drugs to treat Chronic Active Epstein Barr Virus (CAEBV), a life-threatening condition in which the body fails to properly control Epstein-Barr virus infection, and Epstein Barr Virus-Hydroa Vacciniforme (HV), a rare skin disorder that causes blisters and scars when a person is exposed to the sun, as well as to understand genetic causes of the diseases that can lead to new treatments. 

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All of Us Research Program: Working Together to Diversify the Biomedical Research Workforce

The All of Us Research program seeks to equip students and researchers at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) with the tools, skills, and knowledge to navigate and utilize one of the largest and most important biomedical databases in the world. The goal of this initiative is to position more diverse researchers and learners to contribute broadly to the biomedical research ecosystem and to empower them with the computational and statistical skills that have become a necessity in current biomedical research. 

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NINDS Health Disparities in Tribal Communities ` Summer Internship Program 

The NINDS Health Disparities in Tribal Communities Summer Internship Program addresses the critical need for a robust and diverse scientific workforce that brings together different perspectives. Launched over a decade ago, the research training program offers over a dozen participants the opportunity to learn about brain and nervous systems research. The program focuses on neurological disorders and healthcare disparities and seeks to provide research and career development opportunities for Native American students, along with students from other underrepresented communities. Interns work with mentors in the NINDS Division of Intramural Research, where they are immersed in basic, translational, and clinical research.  

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African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics (Uganda)

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Diversity Partnership provides both institutional and individual funding to promote diversity in the genomics workforce. The program offers opportunities at the undergraduate, postbaccalaureate, graduate, postdoctoral and faculty levels. 

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