The goal of the HHMI Research Training Fellowships for Medical Students is to strengthen and expand the nation's pool of medically trained researchers. The fellowships provide funds to support fellows and meet their research -and education-related expenses. HHMI awards the fellowships through an annual competition.
The fellowship provides support for one year of full-time research training in fundamental biomedical research. It includes a stipend, a research allowance to meet a fellow's research related expenses, and a fellow's allowance to be used for health care and tuition and fees. Fellowship research must be conducted at an academic or nonprofit research institution in the United States, excluding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.
In 2008, HHMI plans to award up to 66 fellowships to medical, dental, and veterinary students who show the greatest promise for future achievement in biomedical research and who have demonstrated superior scholarship as undergraduates and during their initial medical, dental, or veterinary school training.
To ensure continued excellence and diversity among applicants and awardees, HHMI welcomes applications from all qualified students and specifically encourages applications from women and members of minority groups underrepresented in the sciences.
Eligibility Requirements
Applicants must be currently enrolled in a medical, dental, or veterinary school program in the United States. Students may apply during any year of their studies, but applicants in the last year of school must defer graduation until completion of the fellowship year.
These fellowships are not available to students enrolled in a combined medical, dental, or veterinary/Ph. D. program (e.g., M.D./Ph.D.), a Ph.D. program, or an Sc.D. program or to those who have completed a Ph.D. or an Sc.D. in a laboratory-based science. The eligibility of applicants with a doctoral degree in a science that is not laboratory based will be determined by HHMI on a case-by-case basis.
Applicants may have research experience, but it is not required. Applicants with a year of full-time research experience must show how further full-time research experience at this time would strongly enhance their future research careers.
There are no citizenship requirements for application, but those who are not U.S. citizens must have and maintain an appropriate visa. HHMI will not handle visa matters for applicants.
The application is submitted via HHMI's Web-based competition system at www.hhmi.org/ competitions. Submission of all applicant, mentor, dean, and reference forms must be via the Web.
Further Information
http://www.hhmi. org/grants/ pdf/comp_ annc/2008med_ pa.pdf
http://www.hhmi. org/grants/ pdf/comp_ annc/2008med_ applic_requireme nts.pdf
Contact
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Office of Grants and Special Programs
4000 Jones Bridge Road
Chevy Chase, MD
20815-6789
Telephone: (800) 448-4882, ext. 8889
E-mail: fellows@hhmi. org
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