Institutional National Research Service Award (T32)

To enable institutions to make National Research Service Awards to individuals selected by them for predoctoral and postdoctoral research training in specified shortage areas.

Purpose

The purpose of this Kirschstein-NRSA training program is to enable institutions to recruit individuals selected by them for predoctoral and postdoctoral research training in specified shortage areas. The goal of this program is to prepare qualified predoctoral and/or postdoctoral trainees for careers that have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the Nation.

Related Program

The Jointly Sponsored NIH Predoctoral Training Program in the Neurosciences (JSPTPN) supports broad and fundamental research training in the neurosciences via institutional NRSA research training grants (T32) at domestic institutions of higher education. Trainees appointed to this training grant are financially supported for either one or two years, during the first 2 years of their graduate research training. The primary objective is to prepare individuals for careers in neuroscience that have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the Nation. For additional information, please click here.

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: No
  • Career Stage: Established Investigator

Established investigator capable of providing administrative and scientific leadership.

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

Appointee Eligibility

  • Career Stage: Predoctoral, Postdoctorate/Residency

U.S. citizens or permanent residents enrolled in a research or clinical doctoral or postdoctoral program.

Carefully read the Eligibility section of the funding opportunity for opportunity-specific Appointee eligibility requirements.

Award Information

  • Funding Instrument: Grant
  • Funding Category: Research Training and Career Development
  • Budget Mechanism Code: TI - Training, Institutional

Application and Submission Information

Parent Announcements

T32 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 Training (T) instruction call-outs, except where instructed to do otherwise in the funding opportunity or related notices.

Institutional National Research Service Award (T32)
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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.

  • Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP)
  • 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 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)
  • Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)
  • Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH)

FAQs

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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