The NIBR Global Scholars Program (NGSP) is a competitive program designed for innovators from invited institutions to gain funding for breakthrough science not covered by traditional grant support. Through this program, NIBR supports projects focused on novel science with the objective of being translated to drug discovery and/or clinical research.

Resources for breakthrough science
Each Scholar will receive up to 1 mil USD funding over three years along with drug-hunting expertise from dedicated NIBR scientific collaborators. In addition, a dedicated alliance manager will ensure a productive collaboration environment between NIBR and the academic institution by handling all operational facets of the NGSP.
Access to inter-disciplinary expertise
Academic scholars have access to disease biology, drug-hunting and translational research expertise. Each selected scholar will join forces with other entrepreneurially motivated NIBR scientists to challenge the status quo and take bold risks for potential big rewards and will have an opportunity to advance research into early development stages.
Meet the 2022 recipients of the NIBR Global Scholars Program
With these distinguished scholars, we will focus on innovative medicines to address the worldwide burden of disease.
- Aravind Asokan (Duke University)
- Brent Ferrell (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
- Hidetoshi Masumoto (Kyoto University)
- Magdalini Polymenidou (University of Zurich)
- Sereina Riniker (ETH Zurich)
Meet the 2021 recipients
- Jeffrey Bode (ETH Zurich)
- Paul Bowness (University of Oxford)
- Stephanie Dakin (University of Oxford)
- Christoph Rademacher (University of Vienna)
- Adam Walker (UniQuest)
NGSP 2020 Scholars
- David Andrews (Sunnybrook Research Institute)
- Matthew Greenblatt (Weill Cornell Medicine)
- Junyeop Lee (Asan Medical Center)
- Alison Narayan (University of Michigan)
- Ellis Reinherz (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
- Jin Zhang (University of California, San Diego)
Over 50 world-class institutions are participating in NGSP 2023
The following institutions have been invited to participate in the 2023 NGSP. We look forward to receiving their investigators’ proposals for innovative projects that will advance our mission to improve and extend peoples’ lives.
Academic Institution | Academic Institution | ||
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Medical University Vienna | AT | Seoul National University Hospital | KR |
University of Vienna | AT | Instituto de Medicina Molecular | PT |
Monash University | AU | Boston University | US |
University of Melbourne | AU | Brigham and Women’s Hospital | US |
UniQuest | AU | Columbia University | US |
WEHI (Walter & Eliza Hall Inst.) | AU | Weill Cornell Medicine | US |
Sunnybrook Research Institute | CA | Duke University | US |
The Hospital for Sick Children | CA | Emory University | US |
University of Toronto | CA | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | US |
ETH Zurich | CH | Mass Eye and Ear | US |
University of Basel | CH | Massachusetts General Hospital | US |
University of Geneva | CH | Morehouse School of Medicine | US |
Geneva University Hospitals | CH | Northwestern University | US |
University of Zurich | CH | Ohio State University | US |
LMU Munich | DE | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | US |
University Hospital Munich | DE | Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear |
US |
Institut Pasteur | FR | Temple University | US |
Francis Crick Institute | GB | Tufts University | US |
Imperial College London | GB | University of California, Los Angeles | US |
University of Birmingham | GB | University of California, Berkeley | US |
University of Oxford | GB | University of California, San Diego | US |
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research - Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB) |
IN | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | US |
Tel Aviv University | IS | University of Arizona | US |
Weizmann Institute of Science | IS | University of Chicago | US |
Kyoto University | JP | University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School | US |
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology | JP | University of Michigan | US |
Osaka University | JP | University of Pittsburgh | US |
University of Tokyo | JP | Vanderbilt University | US |
Asan Medical Center | KR | Washington University in St. Louis | US |
Yale University | US | ||