Individual Predoctoral NRSA for M.D./Ph.D. Fellowships (F30)

Individual fellowships for predoctoral training which leads to the combined M.D./Ph.D. degrees.

Purpose

The purpose of this Kirschstein-NRSA program is to enhance the integrated research and clinical training of promising predoctoral students, who are matriculated in a combined MD/PhD or other dual-doctoral degree training program (e.g. DDS/PhD, AuD/PhD, DVM/PhD), and who intend careers as physician-scientists or other clinician-scientists.

Organization Eligibility

  • Eligibility: U.S. domestic institutions
Carefully read the Eligibility section of the funding opportunity for opportunity-specific organization eligibility requirements.

Project Director/ Principal Investigator (PD/PI) Eligibility

  • PD/PI U.S. Citizenship Requirement: Yes
  • Career Stage: Predoctoral

U.S. citizen or permanent resident, enrolled in a dual-degree program.

Carefully read the Eligibility section of the funding opportunity for opportunity-specific PD/PI eligibility requirements.

Award Information

  • Funding Instrument: Grant
  • Funding Category: Research Training and Career Development
  • Budget Mechanism Code: TR - Training, Individual
  • Mentored: Yes

Application and Submission Information

  • Reference Letters: Required (min 3 , max 5)

Parent Announcements

F30 Parent Announcements are available.

  • Parent announcements are broad funding opportunities that applicants can use to submit investigator-initiated applications for a range of popular programs. They do not specify any particular area of scientific interest. They simply provide the standard forms and instructions needed to apply. 

  • Not all NIH institutes and centers participate on all parent announcements. Check the participating organization in the funding opportunity before applying.

After identifying a funding opportunity, follow guidance in the How to Apply – Application Guide including any Fellowship (F) instruction call-outs, except where instructed to do otherwise in the funding opportunity or related notices.

Individual Predoctoral NRSA for M.D./Ph.D. Fellowships (F30)
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Due Dates

The Key Dates section of funding opportunities lists specific due dates. Many opportunities indicate Standard Due Dates apply.

Standard Application Due Dates (when applicable) Review and Award Cycles
New Renewal, Resubmission,
Revision as Allowed		 AIDS and AIDS Related
Grant Applications		 Scientific Merit Review Advisory Council
Review		 Earliest Start Date

Participating Funding Organizations

Each funding opportunity specifies the participating organizations. Applications must fit within the mission of at least one participating funding organization and meet all opportunity-specific requirements.

The following funding organizations participate on at least one active funding opportunity.

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
  • National Eye Institute (NEI)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
  • National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
  • National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
  • National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

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Contact

  • Your organization's sponsored programs office or grants administrators can answer many internal and agency policy and process questions. 
  • Understand NIH Staff Roles details how and when to find the right NIH contacts:
    • Before you apply, check your chosen funding opportunity for application submission, scientific/research, peer review, and financial/grants management contacts.  
    • After you apply, find NIH staff assignments in the Status module of eRA Commons.

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