Project Grant T32GM165247

Georgetown University received a $471,337 Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), effective July 18, 2026, through June 30, 2031. The award supports the Georgetown University Medical Science Training Program (MSTP), which provides integrated clinical, basic science, and translational research training to Medical Doctor/Doctor of Philosophy (MD/PhD) trainees in the fields of neuroscience, cancer biology, pharmacology, and bioethics. The funding covers stipends and allowances for four MSTP trainees annually during their first two years of study, with an additional fifth slot annually funded by the institution, for a total of eight federally-funded slots over the initial two-year period of each cohort's eight-year training span.

The MSTP represents the first and only such program in the nation's capital, leveraging 75 faculty mentors with over $28 million in annual research funding, along with eight existing institutional T32 grants, mentor research support, individual National Institutes of Health fellowships, and substantial institutional endowment contributions totaling approximately $9.9 million. The program, directed by Todd Waldman, MD, PhD—a renowned cancer biologist and Johns Hopkins MSTP graduate—includes a distinctive MD/PhD track in bioethics led by internationally recognized bioethicist Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD, of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Since its establishment in 1989, the program has graduated 107 trainees who have pursued academic careers at premier institutions, with current trainees representing the next generation of physician-scientists in biomedical research.