Drug Delivery Predoctoral Fellowship
Drug Delivery Predoctoral Fellowship supports doctoral researchers studying drug formulation, manufacturing, and delivery to make treatments clinically viable, safer, more effective, or easier to manage.
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Funder: PhRMA Foundation
Due Dates: October 30, 2026, at noon ET (Letter of intent) | March 2027 (Invited full application)
Funding Amounts: $30,000 per year in stipend support for 12, 18, or 24 months
Summary: Supports advanced doctoral research on drug formulation, manufacturing, and delivery to make treatments clinically viable, safer, more effective, or easier to manage.
Key Information: Only one applicant per lab may apply to Drug Delivery, and the lab must choose either a predoctoral or postdoctoral applicant.
Description
The PhRMA Foundation’s Drug Delivery Predoctoral Fellowship supports promising students in advanced stages of doctoral training and thesis research. Its scope includes basic pharmaceutics, biopharmaceutics, pharmaceutical technology, pharmaceutical biotechnology, and biomedical engineering. The program seeks therapeutically relevant approaches to delivering increasingly complex drugs through improvements in formulation, technology development, manufacturing, and prediction and demonstration of in vivo performance.
Research may address formulations and delivery technologies that enable desired pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, manufacturing processes that improve challenging chemical entities, or predictive approaches connecting drug quality with efficacy, toxicity, and in vivo performance. Modeling, simulation, data analytics, and machine learning may support these goals. Research applicable to multiple drug modalities is prioritized. This opportunity is part of the Foundation’s second 2027 funding cycle.
