The Section on Comparative Medicine within the Pathology Department at Wake Forest University School of Medicine offers a rolling total of four post-DVM fellowships; two will be available in July 2026. The program is supported by the National Institutes of Health through an institutional T32 training grant. The mission of this training program is to prepare comparative medicine scientists for productive careers in research, in academic institutions, government and the private sector.
The program may be used to pursue PhD training in one of 8 Biomedical Research training programs, and allows for 25% time for specialized training in veterinary anatomic pathology or laboratory animal medicine
The 27 training faculty committed to the program represent a variety of basic and clinical disciplines. The broader school of medicine community consists of more than 400 faculty comprising 46 academic departments and 19 Centers or Institutes. Major institutional resources include the Wake Forest Primate Research Center, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Hypertension and Vascular Research Center, the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Prevention.
Salary is commensurate with the NIH post-doctoral scale.
