During the fellowship, major attention must be placed on research training. Research Training Fellowships for Medical Students support 1 year of full-time research, and continued fellowships help fellows complete their medical studies. Postdoctoral Research Fellowships for Physicians support 3 years of full-time research. The problems of hypertension, kidney failure, and polycystic kidney disease are also being investigated by many of the researchers the Foundation supports in laboratories throughout the United States. The NKF provides grants to young physician-scientists who have completed their training and are junior faculty members.
Eligible applicants are domestic and foreign tax-exempt, public institutions.
Recent awardees have included colleges and universities, hospitals, research centers, and other health organizations. The sponsor has no established indirect costs policy. Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships for basic and physician Scientists.