Emerging Scholars Program
The Emerging Scholars Program provides support for clinician scientists on the U-M faculty who are in the early stages of their research careers.
There is a pressing need in the scientific community to do more to support early-career researchers who are increasingly choosing to leave the laboratory. We are at risk of losing the next generation of our best and brightest scientists.
The Emerging Scholars Program will offer an opportunity for them to establish their credentials in order to secure traditional funding in the future.
At our first Advisory Board last year, we identified a pressing issue in the field of medical research – the need to do more to support physician scientists in the early stages of their research careers.
Many of our brightest young clinicians are choosing to leave research, despite the passion and promise they have shown for the work.
The Institute is in the process of establishing the A. Alfred Taubman Research Institute Emerging Scholars program. The goal of this program is to create a mechanism to support promising clinical scientists (M.D.’s or M.D./Ph.D.’s) early in their research careers, helping them establish credentials so they may more readily secure traditional funding in the future.
