Collaborative Co-Mentored Dissertations Spanning Institutions: Influences on Student Development

Students of the GPP are supported by funds from the Intramural Research Program of the NIH and by direct or in-kind resources of the universities in which they are enrolled. We gratefully acknowledge the extraordinary efforts of the NIH and university partnership directors in creating and continually improving their programs for the benefit of their students. A listing of the partnerships and directors can be found at http://gpp.nih.gov/UniversityPartners/Partnerships.htm. We especially acknowledge the efforts of the leaders of the NIH–OX/CAM and NIH–KI partnerships that have been instrumental in pioneering the collaborative dissertation model: Drs. Michael Lenardo and Ronald Schwartz, NIH Partnership Directors for Oxford and Cambridge; Dr. Stephen Kennedy at the University of Oxford; Dr. Kenneth G.C. Smith at the University of Cambridge; Drs. Robert Innis and Victor Pike, NIH Partnership directors with the Karolinska Institutet; and Dr. Abdel El Manira of the Karolinska Institutet. We also acknowledge the financial and programmatic support of the Division of Intramural Research, NIH, and the scientific directors of the individual institutes and centers of the NIH for commitment to the graduate students on the NIH campuses. The self-study of the GPP was supported by a grant from the NIH IRP Evaluation Set-Aside Fund. We thank Dr. Jill Keller for many helpful conversations about this study and editorial contribution to the manuscript.