WOMEN IN NHLBI RESEARCH TRAINING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

NIH GUIDE, Volume 22, Number 17, April 30, 1993



P.T. 34, II



Keywords:

  Grants Administration/Policy+ 

  Biomedical Research Training 

  Biomedical Research, Multidiscipl 



The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute



Although the number of women in science has increased over the years,

women have yet to attain parity with their male colleagues in the

numbers trained in research or in positions of scientific leadership.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is strongly

committed to increasing the number of women represented in its research

training and career development programs in cardiovascular, lung, and

blood diseases.  To accomplish this goal, women are encouraged to apply

for research training, individual fellowships, and career development

grants and to serve as training faculty, sponsors, and mentors on

training, fellowship, and career development grant applications.  The

NHLBI encourages deans, department chairpersons, grantees, training

directors, and other individuals interested in cardiovascular, lung,

and blood research to consider creative ways by which women may be

recruited, retained, and supported in these research areas.



The NHLBI urges the scientific community to promote the recruitment and

inclusion of women in its biomedical research training and career

development programs in the following ways:



Institutional National Research Service Award (NRSA) Training Grants



o  Recruitment of women trainees.

o  Inclusion of women as training faculty.

o  Submission of applications from women.



Individual National Research Service Award Fellowships



o  Inclusion of women as sponsors of applications.

o  Submission of applications from women.



Career Development Awards



o  Inclusion of women as mentors on Clinical Investigator Development

Award applications.

o  Submission of career award applications from women, including the

Clinical Investigator Development        Award, the Research Career

Development Award, and the Academic Awards.



The objectives, mechanisms of support, and application procedures for

these programs have been published previously and are available from

the NHLBI staff listed below.  The most important factor in making

funding decisions is the initial review group's assessment of the

scientific and technical merit of an application.  However, the NHLBI

and its National Advisory Council also consider other factors such as

programmatic needs and balance.  The need for more women in our

training and career development programs as Principal Investigators and

as faculty, sponsors, and mentors will be another factor that will

enter into future funding decisions.



INQUIRIES



Inquiries concerning this policy can be directed to the respective

NHLBI Division staff below:



John Fakunding, Ph.D.

Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Federal Building, Room 3C01

7550 Wisconsin Avenue

Bethesda, MD  20892

Telephone:  (301) 496-1724

FAX:  (301) 402-2043



Mary Reilly, M.S.

Division of Lung Diseases

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Westwood Building, Room 640

Bethesda, MD  20892

Telephone:  (301) 594-7466

FAX:  (301) 594-7487



Fann Harding, Ph.D.

Division on Blood Diseases and Resources

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Federal Building, Room 5A08

7550 Wisconsin Avenue

Bethesda, MD  20892

Telephone:  (301) 496-1817

FAX:  (301) 496-9940



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