The Graduate Partnerships Program (GPP) in the Office of Intramural Training & Education (OITE) is home to more than 450 graduate students at the NIH. Approximately 100 new graduate students arrive each year.
GPP students come to the NIH in one of two ways:
- Institutional Partnerships – Students apply concurrently to the GPP and to one of our sixteen partner universities. Applicants interview at the NIH and meet with potential mentors throughout February. After being accepted, students complete summer rotations in NIH labs. Their first year in the GPP is generally spent at the university completing coursework. Students then return to an NIH lab to begin their dissertation research.
- Individual Partnerships – Students who have completed 1-2 years of graduate school at a university identify an NIH mentor. Often NIH mentors are already collaborating with the student’s university mentor or a new collaboration, benefiting both labs, is established. The student then applies to GPP.
Use the links below to learn more about the NIH Investigators participating in the GPP.
MENTOR FAQs
CURRENT MENTORS