Howard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Research Fellows Program

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Research Fellows Program Application Deadline: January 11, 2014 2 p.m. ET The Medical Research Fellows Program gives students the opportunity to immerse themselves in a year of basic, translational, or applied biomedical research. Medical Fellows experience the excitement and intellectual rewards of research before making plans for residency or postgraduate training. The students select their own mentor at any academic or nonprofit research institution in the United States (excluding the National Institutes of Health) or abroad, provided the proposed mentor is affiliated with a U.S. fellowship institution, and work with the mentor to develop a research proposal. Mentor selection and the research project proposal are key components of the application. Working with an HHMI investigator, early career scientist, or HHMI professor is encouraged but not required. Medical Fellows conducting research in the following areas may be supported by organizations partnering with HHMI: Epilepsy research (Partner: Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy); Inherited retinal degenerative disease research (Partner: Foundation Fighting Blindness); Duchenne muscular dystrophy research (Partner: Duchenne Research Fund); Parkinson's disease research (Partner: Parkinson's Disease Foundation); Preclinical research in interventional radiology (Partner: Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation); and Veterinary stu...
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