Postdoctoral Fellowships

The PhRMA Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships provide stipend support to promising postdoctoral fellows who seek to further develop and refine their research skills through formal training. These fellowships are designed for individuals engaged in a multidisciplinary research training program that will create or extend their credentials.

Fellowships provide $60,000 per year for up to two years in stipend support.

Eligible applicants must 1) hold a PhD, PharmD, MD, or appropriate terminal research doctorate in a field of study logically or functionally related to the proposed postdoctoral activities or 2) expect to receive the doctoral degree before activating the award.

The awards support candidates proposing to gain new skills in relevant areas. Postdoctoral applicants should be within their first five years of postdoctoral studies at the time the award begins. Applications requesting funds to continue an existing postdoctoral program beyond a fifth year will not be considered.

One of the objectives of this fellowship is to gain new skills and therefore an ideal candidate will be conducting their research in a new laboratory and not where their graduate work was performed.

The sponsor (mentor) of the postdoctoral program must describe how the multidisciplinary goals of the research training program will be accomplished and provide assurance that key collaborating mentors endorse and are willing to support the training plan.

This award is intended solely as a stipend and may not be used otherwise. An individual may not simultaneously hold or interrupt any other fellowship providing stipend support while the PhRMA Foundation fellowship is active unless necessary to make stipend levels compliant with institutional policy and other postdoctoral fellowships it currently offers. Please advise the PhRMA Foundation if this occurs.

These funds are non-transferable. This fellowship may not be used for travel, tuition, fringe benefits or indirect costs. Unspent funds will be returned to the PhRMA Foundation upon the fellowship’s conclusion.