Cambridge Trust

NIH Cambridge Trust Scholarship

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Fees (International) , Maintenance , Student visa cost , Student immigration health surcharge , Other (see below)
Course length
Prospective applicant
PhD
Full Time
Required
2027/28

About

This scholarship is available to PhD candidates from the USA for the NIH MD/PhD programme. It is tenable at any College.

This scholarship is offered in partnership with the NIH Ox/Cam Programme, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Please note, you must apply via an external application to the funding partner as well as opting into this fund in the funding section of the Cambridge admissions application in order to be considered.

Award details

Course length
Fees (International) Maintenance Student visa cost Student immigration health surcharge Other (see below)

Various additional benefits, including an economy airfare to the UK, and an economy airfare from the UK to the student’s country of residence, by the lowest cost available route

4 (approximately)
2027/28
Yes

The Trust will, on application, provide up to a further 6 months of maintenance funding to support writing up the PhD.

Financial need (including Hardship) Academic merit

Eligibility

Prospective applicant
PhD
Full Time
National Institutes of Health Oxford/Cambridge Programme
Course

Candidates must be a citizen of and/or permanent resident in the USA, and should be accepted onto the NIH MD/PhD programme as well as gaining admission to the University of Cambridge, and should be highly-ranked by their prospective department within Cambridge.

Application Process

Yes
Yes

Key dates

Candidates should visit the website of the NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Programme for information on how to apply.

The Trust’s awarding period runs from the middle of February to the end of July and is an ongoing process throughout that period. Most of our awards are made early during the months of February and March, but some of our partner funded awards involve additional processes such as interviews, which means funding decisions tend to be later from April to June. Although we cannot provide funding updates for individual applicants, the Trust will confirm on our website once we have finished issuing offers for our main scholarship programmes. Throughout the awarding period the Trust will be reallocating awards that have not been taken up. Therefore, all applicants will remain under consideration for any reallocated award for which they are eligible until the end of July. If you have not been contacted by the Trust by the end of July, you should assume that your funding application has not been successful.

Last updated: 09 Sep 2026 11:35:15