HHMI will award up to 10 three-year grants of as much as $1 million each to support the development and early phases of the interdisciplinary programs. NIBIB, a new NIH institute with broad, interdisciplinary goals, will provide five additional years of support to the HHMI grantees through peer-reviewed institutional training grants.
Building on work begun by the Whitaker Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, HHMI and NIBIB together have created a new model to support the initiation, development, and maintenance of new graduate programs to provide upcoming biomedical scientists with the cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills they will need.
"This groundbreaking partnership between the NIBIB and HHMI will produce researchers who are skilled in biomedical disciplines, bioengineering, and quantitative sciences," said Elias A. Zerhouni, NIH director.
In October 2004, HHMI will open a competition for up to 10 grants to educational institutions, totaling as much as $1 million each. The grants will be awarded in November 2005. All U.S. institutions that grant Ph.D. degrees in the biological sciences will be eligible for the three-year awards.
The HHMI-NIBIB partnership will capitalize on the different strengths of each organization. "HHMI can provide flexible support to catalyze the development of new, interdisciplina
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Contact: Jennifer Donovan
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301-215-8859
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
27-Sep-2004