POWERING SCIENCE
Supporting Emerging Biomedical Researchers
In collaboration with the NIH and our generous donors and partners, we manage training initiatives that offer educational opportunities to science students, ranging from high school to post-doctoral scholars, crossing boundaries and cultures. They learn through intensive training, collaborative engagement, mentoring, and hands-on research.
Legacy funds from individual benefactors and foundations help move scientific achievement farther, faster, and give hope to future patients. Individual programs provide financial support, mentoring, and recognition to promising young scientists.
Here is a just a sample of how the FNIH powers science:
- The Medical Research Scholars Program is a one-year intensive training program on the NIH campus offering medical, dental and veterinary students opportunities to become engaged in research early in their careers. The goal is to train the best and brightest students today to produce the leading clinicians and researchers of tomorrow. The FNIH has supported a total of 572 scholars since the program was established.
- The Deeda Blair Research Initiative for Disorders of the Brain announced in 2023 its second round of awards to drive innovation in mental health research. Four awardees each received $100,000.
- We support scientists and promote them through annual lectures at the National Eye Institute, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, and elsewhere.
- For a complete list of all the ways the FNIH is powering science, go to the FNIH website.