The Minority Access to Research Careers Program, sponsored by the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences, was established in 1975 to help develop the talent and to increase the number of Ph.D. degrees awarded among certain ethnic groups that have long been underrepresented in the biomedical sciences.
Pre-Professional Health majors (Pre-Med, Pre-Dent., etc.) are not eligible.
MARC is funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS) T34GM08303