# Medical Scientist Research Service Award

> **NIH NIH T32** · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · 2022 · $1,425,904

## Abstract

Project Summary
The overarching goal of the NYU Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) is to train students to move fluidly
between the realms of rigorous experimental or computational biology and compassionate, evidence-based care
of patients. We aim to train future physician-scientists who will make significant contributions to the advancement
of biomedical science and health care and who will become the next generation of national leaders of academic
medicine. The mechanism whereby we propose to accomplish these goals is to select a group of highly
accomplished and motivated students who will complete both our medical and graduate curricula and finish our
program with a dual MD and PhD degrees. Central to our Program is NYU School of Medicine (NYUSoM) and
the Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences (SIGBS). The former is among the oldest in the nation with
a long history of transformative biomedical research and a current ranking in the top 10 of research medical schools.
The latter supports 16 training programs, confers PhD degrees, and emphasizes biostatistics & exploratory data
analysis, grant writing, rigor and reproducibility, responsible conduct of research, and individual development
plan. Importantly, our proposed MSTP is far more than the sum of these two parts. With more than a half-century
of experience, our MSTP has evolved into a carefully constructed program that adds tremendous value to medical
and graduate training. Value added components of the MSTP include academic/scientific (e.g. faculty and student
organized seminars, annual retreats, and physician-scientist role model lunches), clinical enrichment during
graduate school (e.g. clinicopathological conferences, medical grand rounds, and clinical preceptorships),
community building (e.g. Big Sib program, mental wellness, student organized outings, and an annual retreat),
and an extensive system of advising with emphasis on career development. We offer three pathways through the
MSTP curriculum: a traditional pathway that incorporates graduate work in between the pre-clerkship and
clerkship portions of medical school, one that allows for some clinical clerkships before graduate work, and an
accelerated pathway that allows students to enter the three-year medical school curriculum that includes transition
to post-graduate residency training at NYU. Paramount in our program is mentoring. Our 98 training faculty
were selected from a pool of more than 230 principal investigators at NYUSoM to offer training in a wide spectrum
cutting-edge biomedical research. All participating faculty above the rank of assistant professor have outstanding
training records that demonstrate high standards of mentoring. They receive mandatory training in lab
management and mentoring. Our trainees are selected from an exceedingly qualified pool of applicants. The
program is highly competitive; this year we received 469 applications for a class of 10-12. Students are selected
based on schol...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10417095
- **Project number:** 5T32GM136573-03
- **Recipient organization:** NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** MARK Reid PHILIPS
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $1,425,904
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-07-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10417095

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10417095, Medical Scientist Research Service Award (5T32GM136573-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10417095. Licensed CC0.

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