The PhRMA Foundation awarded 24 early-career researchers a total of more than $1.9 million in 2024 fellowships and grants focused on drug discovery and drug delivery research.

Predoctoral fellowships provide $30,000 a year for up to two years. Postdoctoral fellowships provide $60,000 a year for up to two years. Faculty grants provide $100,000 for one year.

2024 Awardees 

Drug Discovery 

Predoctoral Fellowships 

• Yung Yi Hsiao, MS, University of California, Berkeley
• Tamanna Islam, MSc, University of Texas at El Paso
• Min-Yu Ko, Duke University School of Medicine
• Alexander Lenail, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Anne Londregan, Thomas Jefferson University
• Carol Morris, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
• Daichi Shonai, Duke University School of Medicine
• Xiyin Wang, MS, Mayo Clinic
• Marek Zorawski, Duke University

Postdoctoral Fellowships 

• Ali Nili, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Nokomis Ramos-Gonzalez, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis

Faculty Starter Grants

• Ting Fu, PhD, MPVM, MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Ziyang Zhang, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Drug Delivery 

Predoctoral Fellowships 

• Madison Davis, University of Texas at Austin
• Taylor Duval, Cornell University
• Si-Sim Kang, MS, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Shrey Shah, MS, University of Maryland-College Park

Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Xiaoshu Pan, PhD, University of Florida
• Anup Kumar Srivastava, PhD, MSc, Children’s National Medical Center and Children’s Research Institute

Faculty Starter Grants 

• Chandrabali Bhattacharya, PhD, MSc, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Shijie Cao, PhD, University of Washington
• Tze Ning Hiew, PhD, University of Iowa
• Alexandra Piotrowski-Daspit, PhD, University of Michigan
• Briana Simms, PhD, University of Cincinnati