UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: National Institutes of Health
 
     
The NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program (UGSP) offers
competitive scholarships to exceptional students from
disadvantaged backgrounds who are committed to biomedical, behavioral, and social science research careers at the NIH.
 
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UGSP Scholars: Where Are They?

Since 1996, the UGSP has funded 102 students, 84 of whom have already completed their bachelor's degrees. These students have continued their education at the following graduate and medical programs:

M.D./Ph.D. Programs
Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2)
Boston University
Columbia University
Cornell University (2)
Harvard University (3)
Indiana University
Johns Hopkins University (3)
Oxford University
Tulane University
University of Alabama, Birmingham
University of California, Irvine
University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Francisco
University of Maryland
University of Tennessee at Memphis
University of Vermont
Yale University

Doctoral (Ph.D.) Programs
Columbia University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Loma Linda University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Rutgers University
Tulane University
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, San Francisco (2)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Montana
University of Pennsylvania
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Yale University (3)

Medical Programs
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Georgetown University (2)
Harvard University (7)
Howard University
Johns Hopkins University
Louisiana State University
Marshall University
New York University
Ponce Medical School
Stanford University (2)
University of California, San Francisco
University of Iowa
University of New Mexico
University of Pittsburgh
University of Puerto Rico
University of Virginia
University of Washington (2)
Yale University

Pharm.D. Programs

University of California, San Francisco
West Virginia University

Additionally, one UGSP Scholar has received a Rhodes Scholarship, two have received Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, and three have received Fulbright fellowships.