Funder: PhRMA Foundation
Due Dates: October 30, 2026, noon ET (LOI) | March 2027 (Invited full applications; exact deadline provided upon invitation)
Funding Amounts: $60,000 per year in stipend support for 12, 18, or 24 months
Summary: Supports multidisciplinary postdoctoral training in therapeutically relevant drug formulation, dosage, and delivery research.
Key Information: Only one applicant per laboratory per Drug Delivery funding cycle; laboratories must choose a predoctoral or postdoctoral applicant.
Description
The PhRMA Foundation’s Drug Delivery Postdoctoral Fellowship supports multidisciplinary, collaborative research training at accredited U.S. universities. It extends researchers’ expertise in basic pharmaceutics, biopharmaceutics, pharmaceutical technology, pharmaceutical biotechnology, or biomedical engineering. The program seeks therapeutically relevant research that optimizes drug composition, dosage, and delivery to make treatments clinically viable, safer, more effective, or easier for patients to manage.
Supported work includes formulation and delivery technologies enabling desired pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, manufacturing processes improving challenging drug products, and predictive approaches connecting product quality with performance in the body. These approaches may include modeling, simulation, data analytics, and machine or deep learning. Research applicable to multiple drug modalities receives priority.
