National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences
National Institutes of Health
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
January 2001
Overview
The Division of Intramural Research of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) welcomes applications for 12 month Fellowships in Environmental Medicine for Medical Students. The NIEHS, as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is dedicated to reducing the burden of environmentally associated diseases and dysfunctions on human health. This mission is achieved by conducting and supporting basic and applied research on how environmental exposures affect biological systems and human health, on the identification of susceptible subpopulations, and on the interaction between the environment, genetics, and age.
The purpose of the Division of Intramural Research of the NIEHS is to provide high quality research of relevance to the Institute's mission. Intramural research at the NIEHS is organized into three highly interrelated, interactive, and synergistic programs that highlight the three areas of research excellence of NIEHS. These programs focus on: basic research, which contributes to the basic understanding of biological and chemical processes; environmental toxicology, dedicated to the understanding of the contributions of environmental agents to human disease and dysfunction; and environmental disease and medicine, which focuses on underlying mechanisms of environmentally associated diseases.
Intramural research scientists are highly interactive and are often engaged in interdisciplinary research, which encourages efficient testing of novel ideas, innovative hypotheses, and new paradigms. These interactions are promoted by the housing of the entire Intramural Program in a single building and by seminars, research faculties, and symposia that cut across traditional laboratory boundaries. NIEHS scientists are also actively involved in translational and clinical research. New advances in cell and molecular biology are being extended not only into molecular medicine (from bench to bedside) but also into disease prevention (from bench to longer, healthier lives).
Fellowships in Environmental Medicine for Medical Students provide approved students with an annual stipend of approximately $18,000 (depending on experience) to work full-time for one year with NIEHS scientists. The NIEHS cannot pay for medical school tuition. Short research profiles of NIEHS scientists who are available to serve as sponsors for these fellows are provided in this booklet. The NIEHS also accepts into its laboratories students already funded by such agencies as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Stead Foundation.
Application materials must generally be received by January 31 except under unusual circumstances. Questions about the application deadline should be directed to Dr. Steven Akiyama at akiyama@niehs.nih.gov or to Dr. Perry Blackshear at black009@niehs.nih.gov. Applicants will usually be notified of the Scientific Director's decision no later than approximately March 1. Laboratory research can generally start any time between July 1 and September 1 of the same year in which the application is submitted.
Application Procedure
Application materials must be received by January 31.
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