Students who are U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents with an undergraduate degree wishing to pursue a Ph.D. in the biomedical sciences can apply to one or more of the NIH-University partnership programs, listed below. The available programs are separated into two groups, depending on the location of the university: National University Partnerships and International University Partnerships.

National University Partnerships

• Bioinformatics - Boston University
• Biomedical Sciences - George Washington University
• Biomedical Sciences - Georgetown University
• Biophysics - University of Maryland, College Park
• Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology & Biophysics - Johns Hopkins University
• Cell Motility & Cytoskeleton - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Immunology - University of Pennsylvania
• Molecular Basis for Infectious Diseases - NIAID/RML & University of Montana
• Neuroscience - Brown University
• Sensory & Communication Neuroscience - NIDCD & University of Maryland, College Park
• Structural Biology - New York University
• Partnerships Combining Research & Clinical Training
  • Combined MD & PhD Training - NIH Intramural MD/PHD Partnership
  • DVM/PhD: Molecular Pathology - NCI & NCSU/MSU/UIUC/UMD - requires DVM
  • Nursing/PhD: Nursing & Biobehavioral Research - NINR & JHU / OHSU / UCSF / UofI / UPitt / UofU - requires BSN or MSN

International University Partnerships

• Biomedical Sciences - University of Oxford (England)
• Health Sciences  - University of Cambridge (England)
• Neuroscience - Karolinska Institute (Sweden)