Biomedical Sciences Blog

For more than 45 years the PhRMA Foundation has supported the training, research, and careers of young pharmaceutical scientists by awarding competitive grants and fellowships. Our programs have helped facilitate the careers of thousands of scientific investigators, faculty members, and physicians. Every program that we offer aims to improve the field of drug discovery and development. Today's award recipients are the future innovators and leaders of the pharmaceutical industry. The benefits of our programs are long-lasting. By supporting up-and-coming scientists we are also advancing public health – today, tomorrow, and years from now.

Comparative Effectiveness Research Education Initiative

We coordinated an effort in 2009 with a plan to organize and use an expert panel to design a model curriculum. The panel formed to conduct this work included people currently involved in developing clinical effectiveness reviews for AHRQ, evidence-based practice centers for other disciplines, policy-makers, academicians, methodologists and members of industry.

The panel met on December 18, 2009 in Washington, DC to identify and discuss the major content areas of comparative effectiveness research that should be taught to both researchers and applied CER users in Masters and Ph.D. programs taught in North American universities. We are pleased to announce that the journal article on CER education “Curricular Considerations for Pharmaceutical Comparative Effectiveness Research” was published in January 2011 in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety (PDS). To view this article, click here: [Curricular Consideration for Pharmaceutical Comparative Effectiveness Research]

Learn more about past grant and award recipients. Download a PDF version of the Foundation's 2009 Annual Report.

Our application system is currently under construction.
We will be accepting applications online starting July 1, 2011.
Each award has a list of components for the application, you can view these in preparation for submitting an application.

AWARDS

Pharmacology/Toxicology [view brochure] (Deadline: September 1, 2011)

• Pre Doctoral Fellowship
• Post Doctoral Fellowship
• Sabbatical Fellowship
• Research Starter Grant

Informatics [view brochure] (Deadline: September 1, 2011)

• Pre Doctoral Fellowship
• Post Doctoral Fellowship
• Sabbatical Fellowship
• Research Starter Grant

Clinical Pharmacology Awards (Deadline: February 1, 2012)

• Paul Calabresi Medical Student Research Fellowship
• Faculty Development Award in Clinical Pharmacology
  

Pharmaceutics [view brochure] (Deadline: September 1, 2011)

• Pre Doctoral Fellowship
• Post Doctoral Fellowship
• Sabbatical Fellowship
• Research Starter Grant

Health Outcomes [view brochure] (Deadline: February 1, 2012)

• Pre Doctoral Fellowship
• Post Doctoral Fellowship
• Sabbatical Fellowship
• Research Starter Grant