Description

This fellowship supports promising PhD students engaged in advanced thesis research focused on drug delivery, including pharmaceutics, biopharmaceutics, pharmaceutical technology, biotechnology, and biomedical engineering. The program aims to fund innovative, therapeutically relevant research that advances drug composition, dosage, and delivery methods to improve clinical outcomes, safety, and patient manageability. Eligible projects may address formulation composition, delivery technologies, CMC process development for challenging entities, and predictive modeling (including machine and deep learning) to correlate in vitro and in vivo drug performance. Proposals must clearly articulate the therapeutic payload, target tissue, dosing rationale, PK/PD feasibility, and, where applicable, translational validation and robust methodology. Proposals focused solely on platform development without a clear therapeutic application or feasibility path are not considered.