The PSDP receives allied funding from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Pediatric Society (APS), partnerships that have successfully trained some of the brightest physician scientists throughout North America.
To increase the number of slots we can offer, we are partnering with pediatric research-oriented foundations. With financial support from non-NIH funds, we are able to support additional candidates, while maintaining our commitment of accepting only the highest quality applicants. Partnering programs supporting applicants whose research is aligned with that of their foundation include the American Heart Association (AHA), March of Dimes (MOD), the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF), the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF), the Warren Alpert Foundation (WAF), Illumina, Arthritis Foundation (AF), Rheumatology Research Foundation (RRF), and the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA).
In conjunction with our funding partners, we are particularly seeking proposals within the following areas:
- Research on diseases that occur in the first year of life, including those associated with prematurity
- Research on cystic fibrosis and disease that relates to cystic fibrosis
- Basic and early translational work
- Strategies to achieve optimal health & research that broadly impacts the health of all children
- Research on congenital heart defects or pediatric heart transplantation (e.g., single ventricle disease, acute/chronic rejection, allograft vasculopathy, or complications of long‑term immunosuppression).
- Research in juvenile arthritis or related autoimmune/autoinflammatory diseases (e.g., biomarkers, precision medicine, mechanisms, epidemiology, mental health, health disparities, or health care delivery).
If you are interested in applying to the PSDP and have a research proposal that falls within one of these priority areas, please contact the PSDP Program Manager, jal2059@med.cornell.edu for more details so we can make a match during our selection period!
Eligible applicants whose work does not fall within these priority areas are encouraged to apply for one of the five NICHD-funded slots available annually.