Notice Number: NOT-DK-17-017

Key Dates
Release Date: August 17, 2017

Issued by
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

Purpose

The purpose of this Notice is to expand the list of eligible individuals for PAR-16-064 "Small Grants for New Investigators to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (R21)" to include researchers with a PharmD degree.

Part 2. Section III. Eligibility Information
Eligible Individuals (Program Director/Principal Investigator)
B. Eligible Health Professional or Doctoral Degrees

Currently reads:

Eligible doctoral degrees include the MD, DO, DDS, DVM, PsyD, DrPH, OD and PhD. Applicants are recommended to have completed a postdoctoral research experience which lasted a minimum of two years at the time of application.

In the list of Eligible Individuals, the list of doctoral degrees has been modified to include "PharmD":

Eligible doctoral degrees include the MD, DO, DDS, DVM, PharmD, PsyD, DrPH, OD and PhD. Applicants are recommended to have completed a postdoctoral research experience which lasted a minimum of two years at the time of application."

All other aspects of this Funding Opportunity Announcement remain the same.

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

Salina P. Waddy, MD
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Telephone: 301-594-7608
Email: SmallGrant4Diversity@niddk.nih.gov