The NPDP Affiliate Program is designed to facilitate dialogue between academia and industry. Supported by organization member fees, the NPDP Affiliate Program provides an avenue for industry to engage and interact with researchers. Companies engage with our research programs and with participating faculty and students. Benefits of being an NPDP Affiliate include attending annual meetings, receiving copies of reports and publications, and having the opportunity to recruit students. Any interested company may join our affiliate program. The base membership fee is $2,500 per year.

Member companies may provide additional funding and all research results arising from the use of the additional funding will be shared with all program members and the general public. An Affiliate Program member may request the additional funding be used to support a particular area of program research identified on the program’s website, or the program research of a named faculty member, as long as the faculty is identified on the program website as participating in the Affiliate Program. In either instance, the director of the Affiliate Program will determine how the additional funding will be used in the program’s research.

Faculty and staff affiliated with the NPDP include Professor Ronaldo Borja, Professor Jack Baker, and Dr. Martin McCann. For more information on becoming an Affiliate of the NPDP, please contact Professor Martin McCann mmccann@stanford.edu

Stanford’s Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research provides detailed information about the Industrial Affiliates Programs Policies including its open research policy.