Description

The PhRMA Foundation’s Translational Medicine Predoctoral Fellowship supports students in advanced training and thesis research at accredited U.S. universities. The program seeks therapeutically relevant, hypothesis-driven research that moves laboratory discoveries toward human applications and uses clinical findings to inform further laboratory work. Its priority is identifying unmet clinical needs and developing approaches that improve disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and patient care.

Supported areas include innovative diagnostics and therapeutics in human-relevant models, precision medicine, surrogate and digital clinical endpoints, and experimental or computational methods that reduce animal testing. Other areas include biologically validated modeling and simulation, translational pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and target or biomarker validation using human data. Applicants are expected to work with clinical collaborators to identify unmet needs.