Graduate students come to the NINR in one of two ways:

Institutional Partnerships – If you have an undergraduate degree and you would like to pursue a Ph.D. in the biomedical sciences you can apply to one or more of the GPP Institutional Partnerships.  Students apply concurrently to the GPP and to a partner university.  Enrollment is limited to US citizens and US permanent residents.   

Individual Partnerships – If you are currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program and you would like to perform part or all of your dissertation research at the NIH, consider developing an individual agreement between an NIH Investigator and your graduate university.  Individual agreements are open to US Citizens, US Permanent Residents, and Foreign Nationals currently enrolled in a PhD or equivalent program.
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Students should consider the following questions in the application personal statement:

What are your career goals and how do you see the Graduate Partnerships Program contributing to meeting them?

• The Graduate Partnerships Program with NINR/NIH is focusing on research training in the areas of symptoms management and genetics. Within your particular area of interest, identify some problems you see as offering promise for research.
  
• What particular strengths do you believe you could bring to the Graduate Partnerships Program?

The application period for the 2009 GPP is now closed. Please continue to check this page for the announcement of the 2010 GPP application period.

If you have any questions about the Graduate Partnerships Program, please contact:

Raymond Dionne, DDS, PhD
Scientific Director, NINR Intramural Research Program
Director, NINR Graduate Partnerships Program in Biobehavioral Research
Phone: 301-496-0294
Fax: 301-480-1413
dionner@mail.nih.gov