Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $5 Million
The New York City-based Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced that it will renew its Clinical Research Fellowship (CRF) program for medical students with grants totaling $5 million to support three new classes of fellows beginning in July 2005.
Launched in 2000, the CRF program has enabled more than 250 medical students to take a year off from school to receive hands-on clinical research training at one of ten medical schools: Columbia, Harvard, the University of California in San Francisco, the University of Iowa, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Texas at Dallas, Washington University in St. Louis, Yale, and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Each of the participating schools selects at least five fellows per year and matches them with clinical-research mentors. Students at any U.S. medical school are eligible to apply. With this newest commitment, the Duke Foundation has awarded approximately $11.5 million to support the program.
"We are pleased to be able to renew our partnership with the ten distinguished medical schools participating in the CRF program," said DDCF president Joan E. Spero. "This renewal reconfirms our shared commitment to recruiting and training the next generation of physician-scientists conducting clinical research."
