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"By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn."

Latin Proverb

 

Introduction to the Program

The NIH/Oxford/Cambridge Scholars Program is an unusual NIH Graduate Partnerships Program (GPP) in biomedical research in which two distinguished mentors and their laboratories join together to mentor a single graduate student on a thesis project that is of mutual interest to both laboratories. The principle focus of this program is to train top caliber research students [88KB PDF] in an advanced, collaborative, multidisciplinary format to best prepare them for successful careers as creative basic or clinical investigators.  In addition to students seeking the PhD, the program also enrolls MD/PhD students participating in the intramural combined degree training program. 

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As a mentor, you assume a major responsibility in the development of graduate students who seek to develop their skills as research scientists. This task requires diligent communication between all parties involved and demands an integrated effort during the entire term of the research project (average 4 years). This program is NOT to be viewed as a mechanism by which a student spends 2 years in a lab in the UK on an NIH fellowship. Similarly, it is not to be viewed as a program designed to “employ” a technically trained student to work in an NIH laboratory on one's own project. In addition, the program requires that mentors fulfill certain teaching and/or financial obligations as a way to ensure the success of the program. Note that the during their time in the program, students are enrolled full-time at Oxford or Cambridge and must comply with all the rules and regulations governing graduate students. You may find further information on the Oxford and Cambridge websites.