National Institutes of Health
The KI-NIH Doctoral Partnership Programme in Neuroscience provides the possibility for doctoral students, from either the United States or Sweden, to divide their training for a doctoral degree between the two participating institutes.
The 2023 announcement of funding for financing of doctoral students in Neuroscience within the KI-NIH doctoral programme is closed. Read more at Staff Portal.
To apply for KI funding within the KI-NIH doctoral programme, the application should include a neuroscience project developed in collaboration with a co-supervisor based at NIH.
Please use the following links if you as a KI researcher are trying to find a new collaborator at NIH.
Intramural Investigators at NIMH
The students spend a minimum of 18 months of the project in an NIH laboratory or at KI and benefit from a broad scientific experience. The rest of the training period is spent at KI or NIH respectively, and it is KI that confers the doctoral degree after four years of study.
The aim is to promote ground-breaking research in fundamental areas of neuroscience and psychiatry that could lead to a better understanding of brain function, neurological diseases, neuropsychiatric disorders and new medical diagnostics and treatments. The programme additionally addresses the advancement of methodology for human brain imaging.
All doctoral students in this program are registered at KI. The funding and admissions process is divided into two parts, managed and financed separately by KI and the NIH.
At KI, project grant announcements are made every two years. Principal Investigators (PIs) and group leaders at KI are invited to apply for these grants. The awarded group leaders are responsible for recruiting suitable students. Note that students already registered as doctoral students at KI are not eligible for recruitment into this program. Admissions follow KI's standard process, and all positions are posted on the Available positions for doctoral education page on the KI website.
Knowledge of Swedish is not required, as English is the official language of instruction and communication.
For information on the NIH intake pathway, please refer to the NIH intake Process