Overview Both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Karolinska Institutet (KI) represent long-standing globally-recognized campuses for neuroscience research. Scientific interactions and academic exchanges began to occur in parallel with the development of the NIH Bethesda campus from the 1950s. While the NIH itself is not empowered to award its own graduate degrees, since 2000 it has established a strong role in the graduate training of biomedical scientists by partnering with other degree-awarding institutions, including many leading American universities, to establish training programs in either general or specific areas of biomedical research. The first such international partnership was a training program in Biomedical and Health Sciences, established with Oxford and Cambridge Universities in 2001; the program is still flourishing. The NIH-KI Graduate Training Partnership in Neuroscience was established in 2002, sparked by the interest of investigator recruits at a newly created laboratory at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)—the Molecular Imaging Branch—to continue and reinforce scientific collaboration with its strong counterpart at the KI. This program, now in its 10th year with approximately 24 students enrolled, offers a relatively rare transcontinental graduate training experience. To date, 16 students have graduated from the Program. At the NIH, the program was originally administered from within the Graduate Partnerships Program (GPP), but is now administered from the NIMH on behalf of all NIH Institutes. |
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