##  [Novartis Global Scholars Program](/research-and-development/research-collaborations/novartis-global-scholars-program "Novartis Global Scholars Program") 

 The Novartis 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, Novartis Biomedical Research supports projects focused on novel science with the objective of being translated to drug discovery and/or clinical research.

 ![Curve of life world image](/sites/novartis_com/files/styles/crop_freeform/public/2021-09/curve-of-life-world.jpg.webp?itok=pYLcOwb2 "Curve of life world image")

 

## Resources for breakthrough science

Each Scholar will receive up to 1 mil USD funding over three years along with drug-hunting expertise from dedicated Biomedical Research scientific collaborators. In addition, a dedicated alliance manager will ensure a productive collaboration environment between Novartis 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 Novartis Biomedical Research 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 2023 recipients of the Novartis Global Scholars Program

With these distinguished scholars, we will focus on innovative medicines to address the worldwide burden of disease.

- [Carlo Rinaldi](https://www.paediatrics.ox.ac.uk/About/team/carlo-rinaldi) (University of Oxford)
- [Jess Cardin](https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/jess-cardin/) (Yale University)
- [Julian Downward](https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/julian-downward) (Francis Crick Institute)
- [Lars Fugger](https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/research/oxford-centre-for-neuroinflammation) (University of Oxford)
- [Oliver Distler](https://www.usz.ch/en/team/oliver-distler/) (University of Zurich)

## NGSP 2022 Scholars

- [Aravind Asokan](https://surgery.duke.edu/profile/aravind-asokan) (Duke University)
- [Brent Ferrell](https://wag.app.vanderbilt.edu/PublicPage/Faculty/Details/40263) (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
- [Hidetoshi Masumoto](https://kdb.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/profile/en.20a12e57c9dcaf25.html) (Kyoto University)
- [Magdalini Polymenidou](https://www.dqbm.uzh.ch/en/research/polymenidou.html) (University of Zurich)
- [Sereina Riniker](https://riniker.ethz.ch/the-group/person-detail.MTIwNjc3.TGlzdC8xNDkzLC04NTQ1MTI4MDM=.html) (ETH Zurich)

## NGSP 2021 Scholars

- [Jeffrey Bode](https://bode.ethz.ch/people/the-boss.html) (ETH Zurich)
- [Paul Bowness](https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/team/paul-bowness) (University of Oxford)
- [Stephanie Dakin](https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/team/stephanie-dakin) (University of Oxford)
- [Christoph Rademacher](https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/uniview/professuren/cv/artikel/univ-prof-drrernat-christoph-johannes-heinrich-rademacher/) (University of Vienna)
- [Adam Walker](https://qbi.uq.edu.au/profile/7017/adam-walker) (UniQuest)

## NGSP 2020 Scholars

- [David Andrews](https://sunnybrook.ca/research/team/member.asp?t=10&m=514&page=172) (Sunnybrook Research Institute)
- [Matthew Greenblatt](https://weillcornell.org/magreenblatt) (Weill Cornell Medicine)
- [Junyeop Lee](https://eng.amc.seoul.kr/gb/lang/specialities/doctors/doctorsDetail.do?searchHpCd=D032&drEmpId=WUp4a01mT0twa0VQNWhZNzdGYldQZz09) (Asan Medical Center)
- [Alison Narayan](https://www.lsi.umich.edu/science/our-labs/alison-narayan-lab) (University of Michigan)
- [Ellis Reinherz](https://www.dana-farber.org/find-a-doctor/ellis-l-reinherz/) (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
- [Jin Zhang](http://jinzhanglab.ucsd.edu/) (University of California, San Diego)

## 60 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 InstitutionAcademic InstitutionMedical University ViennaATSeoul National University HospitalKRUniversity of ViennaAT Instituto de Medicina MolecularPT Monash UniversityAUBoston UniversityUS University of MelbourneAUBrigham and Women’s HospitalUSUniQuestAUColumbia UniversityUSWEHI (Walter & Eliza Hall Inst.)AUWeill Cornell MedicineUSSunnybrook Research InstituteCADuke UniversityUSThe Hospital for Sick ChildrenCAEmory UniversityUSUniversity of TorontoCAFred Hutchinson Cancer Research CenterUSETH ZurichCH Mass Eye and EarUSUniversity of BaselCHMassachusetts General HospitalUSUniversity of GenevaCHMorehouse School of MedicineUSGeneva University HospitalsCHNorthwestern UniversityUSUniversity of ZurichCHOhio State UniversityUSLMU MunichDERutgers, The State University of New JerseyUSUniversity Hospital MunichDESchepens Eye Research Institute  
of Mass Eye and EarUSInstitut PasteurFRTemple UniversityUSFrancis Crick InstituteGBTufts UniversityUSImperial College LondonGBUniversity of California, Los AngelesUSUniversity of BirminghamGBUniversity of California, BerkeleyUSUniversity of Cambridge GBUniversity of California, San DiegoUSUniversity of OxfordGBUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillUSCouncil of Scientific & Industrial Research -  
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB)INUniversity of ArizonaUSTel Aviv UniversityISUniversity of ChicagoUSWeizmann Institute of ScienceISUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical SchoolUSKyoto UniversityJPUniversity of MichiganUSOkinawa Institute of Science and TechnologyJPUniversity of PittsburghUSOsaka UniversityJPVanderbilt UniversityUSUniversity of TokyoJPWashington University in St. LouisUSAsan Medical CenterKRYale UniversityUS