# Predoctoral Training in Pharmacological Sciences

> **NIH NIH T32** · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · 2022 · $416,289

## Abstract

Project Summary
This is a “new” T32 grant application seeking support for Training in the Pharmacological Sciences (TIPS) at the
Weill Cornell Graduate School (WCGS). If awarded, that grant will extend support for a highly successful active
T32 predoctoral training program with current funding slated to end on June 30, 2021. Our TIPS Program is inter-
departmental and inter-institutional, comprising 33 outstanding faculty mentors, assembled from the Weill Cornell
Medicine and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. We provide an exceedingly rich research
environment for training, including state-of-the-art instrumentation and core facilities, a generous space
allocation to the TIPS Program and a continuing commitment to recruitment of the brightest and best new faculty.
Our institutions have made an unprecedented commitment to growing their biomedical research programs, with
>$3 billion raised from philanthropy spent on new construction and faculty development during the past 15 years.
The participating faculty are a cohesive group of world-class investigators with vibrant ongoing research and
solid records of training early-stage scientific leaders and scholars. We are dedicated mentors and biomedical
researchers with labs that receive an annual average research support >$1.4M. Formal mentorship training is
obligate for all of our faculty members, along with implicit bias training for the faculty and admissions committee.
The current faculty comprise 22 Professors, 4 Assoc. Professors and 5 Asst. Professors with protocols in place
for both adding and removing training faculty members. A major emphasis of the Program is to share the
excitement of discovery with trainees, cultivate the student’s capacity for critical reasoning, and instill in students
all necessary skills to fulfill aspirations they possess for the diverse career opportunities afforded by the training
we offer. Notably, 97% of PhD graduates during the past 10 years have continued in either research or a
research-related career. Our faculty mentors are highly-collaborative, yet with diverse research interests –
providing trainees broad training opportunities in areas that include translational biomedicine,
neuropharmacology, cancer biology, cell signaling, metabolism, chemical biology, synthetic chemistry,
computational biology and structural biology. The Pharmacology Program has adopted a holistic review process
for predoctoral applicants and enrolls 12-16 outstanding trainees annually. Among the total group of 88 enrolled
or incoming trainees, 90.1% are training-eligible and 24.3% of these are from URiM groups. During the past 5
years, incoming students had a mean college GPA of 3.58 and 26.2 months of prior research experience. The
GRE exam is no longer used as an admissions metric and we have migrated to a holistic review process for
selection of candidates that considers overall preparation, motivation and perceived grit. Our 2020 incoming
Pharmacology Program class is a g...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10414047
- **Project number:** 5T32GM141949-02
- **Recipient organization:** WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV
- **Principal Investigator:** Steven S Gross
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $416,289
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-07-01 → 2026-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10414047

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10414047, Predoctoral Training in Pharmacological Sciences (5T32GM141949-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10414047. Licensed CC0.

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