Apply Now: 2027 Fellowships and Grants | | Drug Discovery and Drug Delivery Deadline in One Week:
April 15 @ 12:00 p.m. (Noon) ET | | | | This program funds novel, early-stage, drug discovery research with a clear potential for translation to humans. | | | | This program funds research that optimizes drug composition, dosage, and delivery to make treatments clinically viable, safer, more effective, and/or easier to manage for patients. | | | | |
This program funds research that identifies unmet clinical needs and develops new diagnostic, therapeutic, and computational approaches and technologies to improve patient care.
The Translational Medicine application portal opens April 15.
Letter of Intent Deadline: May 27 @ 12:00 p.m. (Noon) ET
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Submit a Paper: $5k Trainee Challenge Award | | |
The PhRMA Foundation (PhF) and the journal Pharmaceutical Research are partnering on a Challenge Award competition to recognize trainee researchers for outstanding manuscripts in a special collection on “Advancing Genetic Medicine: Discovery, Development, and Delivery.”
The PhRMA Foundation will provide the Challenge Award — a prize of $5,000 — to the first author of up to five winning papers, and Pharmaceutical Research will publish the accepted manuscripts as part of a special collection.
Deadline: June 1, 2026
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| PhF Expands 2026 Awards With Industry Support, Reaching 65 Early-Career Researchers | | The PhRMA Foundation awarded 65 early-career researchers more than $4.6 million in 2026 fellowships and grants — up from 41 awardees in 2025. This expansion was made possible by generous donations from pharmaceutical companies that support our work. | | The Importance of Funding Early-Career Researchers | |
In this video, PhRMA Foundation award recipients describe what the Foundation's support means to them.
For 60 years, the PhRMA Foundation has funded early-career researchers, helping to build and train the scientific workforce.
| | | Hear our awardees discuss their research projects and career paths in videos and blogs. | | Gracelyn Richmond: Designing a ‘Superhero Bacteria’ to Relieve Gut Stress | | Dr. Mark Milner: A Philosophy of ‘Good People, Good Science’ | | | Dr. Nino Isakadze: Using Digital Health Tools and AI to Improve Outcomes for Patients with Irregular Heartbeat | | | | | |
In 2025, the PhRMA Foundation celebrated 60 years of supporting early career researchers and tackling topics important to industry through research funding opportunities.
The Foundation’s 2025 Annual Report highlights more than 40 promising scientists who received our funding for their research in the areas of drug discovery, drug delivery, translational medicine, and value assessment and health outcomes research.
| | Masuda Akther, MS (PhF26) recently presented her PhF-funded work at a New York Academy of Sciences' symposium on Cancer Metabolism and Signaling in the Tumor Microenvironment. | | David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD (PhF24) of the University of Southern California and his team have created a series of data visualizations to raise awareness about the amputation crisis. The ZIP Code Lottery shows how amputation rates across Los Angeles County track almost perfectly with ZIP code and poverty, not clinical severity, while the Amputation Heat Map shows the disproportionate amputation rates across the nation. The Global Limb Threat Index shows how amputation rates track with systems of care, not disease biology alone. | Samagya Banskota, PhD (PhF25) of Boston University recently received a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) R35 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. | Sarah Bernhard, PhD (PhF23) will start a postdoctoral position May 1 at ETH Zurich, supported by the ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. | Indrani Das (PhF26) of Case Western Reserve University won a Young Investigator Award from the American Academy of Immunologists in February, when she presented her PhF-funded work at the Translation Research Cancer Centers Consortium. | Claire Fleming, MS (PhF25) of the University of Virginia received the Best Oral Presentation by a Student award at the Lorne Infection and Immunity Conference in February. | Maja Kuharic, MPharm, MSc, PhD (PhF25) of Northwestern University presented her PhF-funded preliminary research findings on care recipient self-perceived burden as an invited speaker at the University of Chicago Chronic Disease Seminar Series. She also received third place in the 2025 Outstanding Articles of the Year award from the journal Quality of Life Research and delivered a short course at the ISPOR United Arab Emirates Chapter Conference. | Ariel Leyte-Vidal (PhF25) received the award for Best Research Poster Presentation at the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research Day at the University of Miami for her PhF-funded project. | Helen Omuya, MPA, PhD (PhF23) recently began as an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. | |
Ritu Raman, PhD (PhF22) and her lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the Koch Institute Image Award for their art piece titled “Repairing Lost Connections,” featuring the lab’s work on treating nerve injuries.
| | Wei “Adelyn” Tsai (PhF25) of Mayo Clinic will give an oral presentation at 2026 AD/PD conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, for her project titled "Cell type specific gene expression changes are associated with cerebral amyloid angiopathy and blood-brain barrier integrity in Alzheimer’s disease." | Stephanie Zawada, MS, PhD (PhF23) of Mayo Clinic received news coverage in Becker's Hospital Review of her recent research validating methods from her PhF study in a serious illness (COPD) cohort. She will also be a speaker on wearables in safety-net populations at AcademyHealth's Health IT Group in Seattle in May. | | |
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