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We are the PhRMA Foundation. We support the research and early career endeavors of scientists in drug discovery and development.

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The Awards

With a wide range of Pre and Post Doctoral Fellowships, Sabbatical Fellowships, and Research Starter Grants, the Foundation offers a myriad of opportunities to advance your career.

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Pre Doctoral Fellowships Post Doctoral Fellowships Research Starter Grants Sabbatical Fellowships Other Awards Currently Funded Scientists

Featured Scientist

“The PhRMA Foundation award was instrumental in helping me get started as an independent researcher!”

Chirag J Patel, PhD is currently an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. His long-term research goal is to address problems in human health and disease by developing computational and informatics methods to reason over both genomic and environmental information spanning molecules to populations toward a more precise medicine and therapeutics.. Chirag’s group consists of 2 PhD students, 2 post-grad research associates, and 2 post-doctoral associates, and 1 visiting MD resident. See website here: http://chiragjpgroup.org

Announcements

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2017 Translational Medicine & Therapeutics, Health Outcomes, and Clinical Pharmacology Awards

Applications for our 2017 awards in Translational Medicine & Therapeutics, Health Outcomes, and Clinical Pharmacology will be accepted after October 15, 2016. The application deadline for these awards is February 1, 2016.

The PhRMA Foundation's 50th Anniversary

This year the PhRMA Foundation celebrates its 50th anniversary, commemorating five decades of support for young scientists. On average, the PhRMA Foundation provides $3.5 million annually in awards to young scientists-more than $80 million through the years. The foundation awards support in 8 different disciplines and has supported scientists at over 300 colleges and universities in 49 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

James R. Halpert, Ph.D. is awarded the 2016 PhRMA Foundation Award in Excellence

Dr. James Halpert, the Dean of the School of Pharmacy and Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at The University of Connecticut has been awarded the 2016 PhRMA Foundation Award for Excellence in Pharmacology/Toxicology. The honor acknowledges researchers who received a PhRMA Foundation grant at the outset of their careers and went on to achieve scientific and/or academic prominence. He was presented his award at the 2016 ASPET Annual Meeting in April.

Benefactors

The PhRMA Foundation owes its success to the pharmaceutical companies that have provided their generous support over the past 50 years. Use the arrows to scroll benefactors and click their logo to learn more about them. View all of our benefactors

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