GRANTS AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS 
In 1987 the Institute established the Office of 
Grants and Special Programs to help strengthen edu- 
cation in biology and the related sciences, comple- 
menting its medical research activities. A major ob- 
jective of the grants program is to recruit and retain 
students in biomedical research and education and 
thereby foster scientific discovery. 
The Institute supports grant programs in gradu- 
ate, undergraduate, and precollege science educa- 
tion and research in the United States and abroad. In 
addition, the Office is undertaking a comprehensive 
assessment program. 
GRADUATE EDUCATION IN BIOLOGICAL 
SCIENCES 
Graduate education activities are aimed at ex- 
panding the pool of outstanding biomedical investi- 
gators, including physician-scientists, through the 
aw^arding of individual fellowships. In addition, a 
small number of grants have been awarded to se- 
lected institutions that have traditionally played a 
unique international role in biological science edu- 
cation and research training. After five years of 
grants program awards, the fellowship programs are 
now operating at steady-state levels. Over $11.5 
million went to the support of about 500 fellows in 
the Institute's three graduate science education fel- 
lowship programs during the 1992 fiscal year. 
Predoctoral Fellowships in Biological Sciences 
The goal of the Predoctoral Fellowships in Biolog- 
ical Sciences Program is to promote excellence in 
biomedical research by helping prospective re- 
searchers with exceptional promise obtain high- 
quality graduate education. Fellowships are 
awarded for full-time study toward a Ph.D. or Sc.D. 
degree in the biological sciences that parallel the 
Institute's scientific program areas. Each predoc- 
toral fellowship provides an annual stipend for up to 
five years and an annual cost-of-education allow- 
ance to the institution at which the fellow will 
study. The fellowships are intended for students at 
the beginning of their graduate study. Those eligible 
at the time of application may be college seniors, 
college graduates with no or limited postbaccalau- 
reate study in the biological sciences, or first-year 
graduate students, including foreign citizens as well 
as U.S. citizens. Students who hold or are pursuing 
degrees in medicine, veterinary medicine, or den- 
tistry also may apply for fellowships for study to- 
ward the Ph.D. degree. 
In the 1992 fellowship competition, about 1,400 
eligible applicants were evaluated by panels of dis- 
tinguished biomedical scientists convened by the 
National Research Council of the National Academy 
of Sciences, which administers the competition on 
behalf of the Institute. Based on these evaluations, 
the Institute selected 70 fellows. 
Drawn from 47 undergraduate institutions (in- 
cluding 6 outside the United States), the new fel- 
lows are undertaking graduate study at 23 academic 
institutions throughout the country and abroad. 
This past year, 297 predoctoral fellows and the 52 
universities they are attending received over $1 mil- 
lion for support of the fellows' graduate studies. The 
Institute will award about 66 new fellowships an- 
nually, so that approximately 330 predoctoral fel- 
lows will be supported in any given year. 
New Awards — Predoctoral Fellow 
Biochemistry and Structural Biology 
David Min Chao, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology 
Melinda Bonnie Fagan, Stanford University 
David Henry Hackos, University of California, 
San Francisco 
Stuart Spencer Licht, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology 
I-Fan Theodore Mau, University of California, 
San Francisco 
Kayvan Roayaie, University of California, 
San Francisco 
Jennifer Ellen Schmidt, University of 
Washington 
Kyle John Vogan, McGill University, Canada 
Edgar Chong Young, Brandeis University 
Karen Marie Zito, University of California, 
Berkeley 
Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and 
Mathematical Biology 
Anne M. Bronikowski, The University of Chicago 
Michael Joseph Daniels, Harvard University 
Cell Biology and Immunology 
Jose Antonio Alcantara, University of 
Pennsylvania 
Lara Jane Ausubel, Harvard University 
Michelle Leigh Boytim, Stanford University 
Bradley Brian Brasher, Harvard University 
George Yen-Hsi Liu, University of Cambridge, 
England 
Ellen Annette Lumpkin, University of Texas 
Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 
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