# Medical Scientist Training Program

> **NIH NIH T32** · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $1,596,168

## Abstract

Project Summary / Abstract
This application will support and renew the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)
at Stanford University School of Medicine. In 47 years of continuous NIH funding, 321
trainees have graduated from this program, many of whom have become leaders in their
fields of academic medicine and biomedical research. Our program provides a superb
environment and unique advantages for fulfilling our mission “to train pioneering
physician-scientists dedicated to a lifetime of biomedical discovery that improves human
health through innovation.”
Dual degree pre-doctoral training in the Stanford MSTP has durably produced
successful outcomes in our trainees, based on several metrics used to compare MD-
PhD programs nationally, including low attrition and time to degree conferral, publication
record, and high retention of graduates in biomedical research careers.
This proposal describes important changes in the Stanford MSTP. Program
enhancements include a significantly increased level of institutional support, reflected in
increased staffing and faculty effort to direct the MSTP; increased financial support for
student training by the School of Medicine; creation of an MSTP Advisory Committee;
implementation of MSTP-specific innovative courses and teaching programs; improved
mentoring and monitoring mechanisms for students throughout their training; increased
faculty participation; and enhanced integration of MD-only trainees in MSTP activities.
Together, the increased institutional support, increased effort by School of Medicine
faculty and leadership, dedicated program enhancements, and integration of clinical and
graduate training have changed, expanded and improved the Stanford MSTP. Support
through this proposal, heavily leveraged with School of Medicine and University
resources, will support continuing innovation in training physician scientists at Stanford
devoted to improving human health through a lifetime of biomedical research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9927633
- **Project number:** 5T32GM007365-45
- **Recipient organization:** STANFORD UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Katrin F. Chua
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $1,596,168
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1976-11-01 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9927633

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9927633, Medical Scientist Training Program (5T32GM007365-45). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9927633. Licensed CC0.

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