Felllowship Program

Fellowship Program

Founded in 2018, the KGI School of Pharmacy fellowship program provides exceptional biopharmaceutical industry training for Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) graduates with a broad exposure to the areas fundamental to drug discovery, development, and commercialization.

This program prepares fellows for a career in the pharmaceutical industry by focusing on developing a deep understanding of how companies operate. Each position affords significant experience in a corporate setting, enabling fellows to hone their business and clinical skills. The program also fosters professional development; provides intensive, hands-on training; and exposes fellows to a variety of industry and academia-based opportunities.

A structured one- or two-year work experience designed to provide hands-on training in functions fundamental to bringing innovative medical products through development and into commercialization. An industry-based training program for individuals with a doctorate in pharmacy to further their experience in the biopharmaceutical industry through work experience and clinical research.

To develop strong, confident, and competent biopharmaceutical industry leaders through the following:

  • Professional development to promote learning agility, scholarship, enhance leadership, critical thinking, and team-building skills
  • Networking to establish both personal and professional relationships among colleagues, alumni, industry professionals, and healthcare providers
  • Community service to contribute and remain connected within the community

KGI provides a graduate academic environment to guide and support fellows towards building a successful career in the biopharmaceutical industry. KGI recognizes that solving practical, real world challenges—for physicians and pharmacists, as well as industry executives and entrepreneurs—requires close teamwork, creative and critical-thinking skills, and cross-functional fluency. KGI’s interdisciplinary curricula integrate technology and management in an innovative and practical way. As a result, our students graduate with a thorough understanding of the results-oriented, collaborative culture in which scientists, doctors, engineers, and managers operate.

A successful candidate must be a PharmD graduate from an ACPE accredited institution. Substantial background knowledge in a related field is a plus. All candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Why Sponsor a Fellow?

Over the last decade, fellowship programs have expanded rapidly across the U.S. as sponsor companies develop the next generation of industry leaders. Sponsor companies offer innovative, challenging, and promising positions to help reflect their needs in a rapidly changing marketplace.

Each position provides significant experience in a real-world corporate setting to allow the fellow to rapidly develop their business and clinical skills. The program provides professional development, intensive hands-on training, and exposes fellows to a variety of industry and academia-based opportunities.

The fellows contribute by leading and delivering key projects as well as serving as preceptors for students on rotation. Sponsor companies use the fellowship program as their future pipeline leadership talent.