PA Options for Wellness Graduate Student Fellowship
The PA Options for Wellness Graduate Student Fellowship is offered by the Penn State College of Medicine’s Medical Marijuana Academic Clinical Research Center (MMACRC) within the Center for Cannabis and Natural Product Pharmaceutics (CCNPP).
The purpose of the fellowship is to encourage basic and clinical research into the benefits and dangers of medical cannabis. Ancillary goals include: helping students to develop grant writing and project leadership skills, the generation of preliminary data to support proposals for larger external grants and subsequent growth of the MMACRC/CCNPP. The fellowship is open to post-comprehensive graduate students at the Penn State College of Medicine or University Park campuses who are proposing research on medical cannabis or cannabinoids. Applications to the program are reviewed for scientific merit and prioritized for funding based on program relevance.
Submission information will be posted on PSU InfoReady when applications are being accepted.
Disclaimer: This summary is provided for informational purposes. For complete program details, including eligibility requirements and application submission guidance, please refer to an active RFA or contact the Administering Unit. Active RFAs will always supercede any information contained in this summary.
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Program Overview
- An applicant to this program must be a post-comprehensive exam graduate student at the Penn State College of Medicine or Penn State University Park campuses.
- The research project must involve basic, clinical, or translational research related to the use of cannabinoids or medical cannabis for those conditions which are currently approved by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the use of medical marijuana.
- Applicants must identify a primary research mentor who is a full-time faculty member with a primary appointment in any department at Penn State College of Medicine or at Penn State’s University Park campus who commits to provide advice, assistance and support in the conduct of the proposed research. The primary research mentor need not be a published cannabinoid researcher but must have the scientific expertise and laboratory research resources to support such a project.
- MMACRC will provide cannabinoids, cannabis extract, and limited other reagents for the proposed study.
- Awardees must present their data at the annual retreat of the MMACRC, participate in relevant MMACRC working group meetings, and submit an annual progress report to Research Development at the conclusion of the project with an emphasis on plans for peer-reviewed publications.
Applications will be reviewed for responsiveness to the program guidelines and scientific and technical merit by Penn State faculty members with appropriate expertise. Funding recommendations will be presented to a committee composed of leadership from the MMACRC and the corporate partner PA Options for Wellness who will make the award decisions. Applications will be prioritized for funding based on program relevance.
Applicants will receive written feedback from the review process.
Administering Unit
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