The Institutional Program Unifying Population and Laboratory Based Sciences (PUP) is an institutional training award that stimulates work that interfaces between the population and computational sciences and the laboratory-based biological sciences. This training award provides $500,000 per year for five years.

Eligibility requirements are as follows:

• Degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada may submit applications.
• Proposals must be driven by core components within medical and public health schools, but beyond those required components, departments or centers located within non-medical parts of a university, existing inter-institutional collaboratives, research museums, free-standing research institutes, and other non-profit institutions that provide advanced-level training are all acceptable as potential additional partners. Dental, osteopathic, and veterinary medical schools are appropriate applicants.
• Comparative medicine and animal science departments are advised to discuss their planned proposal with the program officer to ensure that their proposal will be human-focused enough to be competitive.
• Proposals that cross institutional boundaries are encouraged.
• Research groups working at national laboratories and within the federal government are allowable as partners, but funding to students doing research within these institutions must be channeled through an appropriate degree-granting institution.
• For-profit companies may not participate in the application, but could be valuable partners in such training programs. Proposals that may offer students access to research opportunities involving work in or data from the for-profit sector are welcome.