Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowship for Students at Institutions Without NIH-Funded Institutional Predoctoral Dual-Degree Training Programs (Parent F30) PA-23-261

National Cancer Institute 

Scientific Program Contacts:
Mark Damico, Ph.D.
Email: [email protected]

Yansong Bian, M.D., Ph.D.
Email: [email protected]

Hana Odeh, Ph.D. 
Email: [email protected] 

Anu Puri, Ph.D. 
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Nailah Agyemann

Phone: 240-276-6290
Email: [email protected]

NCI Specific Information:

NCI requires a clear cancer focus in graduate research training and gives funding priority to applications whose sponsor and/or co-sponsor have active cancer-related R01, or R01-like, peer-reviewed research grants. For the NCI F30 Award, R01-like research funding includes peer-reviewed research grants from other federal sources and private foundations with a duration of at least 3 years with a minimum of $150,000 direct costs per year. Grants under a no-cost extension do not qualify.

Additional NCI-specific information/requirements can be found at: http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding/cancertraining/funding/f30

 

National Eye Institute

Scientific Program Contact:
Neeraj Agarwal, Ph.D.
Phone: (301) 451-2020
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Karen Robinson-Smith
Phone: (301) 451-2020
Email: [email protected]

NEI Specific Information:

See: /training/index.htm

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Scientific Program Contact:
Paula Einhorn, M.D.
Phone: (301) 435-0563
Email: [email protected]​

Grants Management Contact:
Kimberly Stanton
Phone: (301) 435-0166
Email: [email protected]

NHLBI Specific Information:

The NHLBI is interested in supporting individual predoctoral fellowships for combined MD/Ph.D. training in research areas relevant to the mission of the NHLBI. The NHLBI supports research training and career development of researchers in fundamental sciences and clinical disciplines related to heart, vascular, lung, and blood diseases; sleep disorders; and blood resources. See http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/org/mission.htm for NHLBI’s mission statement.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to read the NHLBI Strategic Plan http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/strategicplan/
documents/StrategicPlan_Appendix.pdf  to familiarize themselves with the research areas of interest to the Institute.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact NHLBI before submitting an application to determine its appropriateness for this NOFO and the mission of the NHLBI. NHLBI requires a Data and Safety Monitoring Plan for human subjects research with more than minimal risk.

National Institute on Aging

Scientific Program Contact:

Jamie Lahvic, Ph.D.

NIA Training Office
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Jessica Perez 
Phone: (301) 496-1472
Email: [email protected]

NIA Specific Information:

NIA’s focus is on aging and the contribution of aging to disease etiology, prevention and treatment. NIA has a particular focus on research into Alzheimer’s disease and its related dementias.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the appropriate NIA Program Official before preparing an application to discuss the relevance of the proposed research to the Institute’s research priorities. Information on the priority areas for the Behavioral and Social Research, Biology of Aging, Neuroscience and Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology Programs are found on the National Institute on Aging website: http://www.nia.nih.gov/research . Please see http://nia.nih.gov/research/dea/research-training-and-career-award-support for information about NIA’s support for F programs.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Scientific Program Contact:
Peter Gao, M.D.
Phone: (301) 443-6106
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Judy Fox
Phone: (301) 443-2434
Email: [email protected]

NIAAA Specific Information:

NIAAA sponsors a variety of fellowships and career development programs to ensure the training of highly qualified new investigators in alcohol-related research. Training opportunities under this announcement include research in the social, behavioral, biomedical, biological, and mathematical sciences as related to alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Please refer to the NIAAA website for a comprehensive description of NIAAA goals and priorities (http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/about-niaaa/our-work/strategic-plan). The NIAAA scientific program contact will be able to evaluate eligibility, recommend the most appropriate fellowship mechanism and refer you to the NIAAA program officer with relevant research expertise.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases  

Scientific Program Contacts:
Microbiology and Infectious Disease (non-AIDS) Research:
Stephanie Coomes, Ph.D.
Phone: (301) 761-6855
Email: [email protected]​

AIDS-Related Research:
Eric Refsland, Ph.D.
Phone: (301) 761-7193
Email: [email protected]

Basic Immunology, Allergy, Transplant, Autoimmunity, and Immune-Based Disease Research:
Timothy A. Gondre-Lewis, Ph.D.
Phone: (240) 627-3566
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Trevor Alford
Phone: (240) 747-7398
Email:  [email protected]

NIAID Specific Information:

NIAID requires a clear scientific focus in graduate research training related to any of the NIAID mission areas:
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/sites/default/files/NIAIDStrategicPlan2017.pdf

Applicants are encouraged to contact the appropriate NIAID Program Official before preparing an application to discuss the relevance of the proposed research to the Institute’s research priorities.  For additional Information please reference link here: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/grants-contracts/training-career-grant-programs

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

Scientific Program Contact:
Kristy Nicks, Ph.D.
Phone: 301-594-5055
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Jamie Thompson
Phone:(301) 594- 3614
Email: [email protected]

NIAMS Specific Information:

Specific information on NIAMS F awards can be found at: http://www.niams.nih.gov/Funding/Funding_Opportunities/activity_codes.asp

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Scientific Program Contact:
Dennis A. Twombly, Ph.D.
Phone: (301) 451-3371
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Bryan S. Clark, MBA 
Phone: (301) 435-6975
Email: [email protected]

NICHD Specific Information:

NICHD offers fellowships in areas relevant NICHD’s mission, including demography, social sciences, and population dynamics; male and female fertility and infertility; developing and evaluating contraceptive methods; improving the safety and efficacy of pharmaceuticals for use in pregnant women, infants, and children; HIV infection and transmission, AIDS, and associated infections; pediatric growth and endocrine research; child development and behavior; developmental biology and typical and atypical development; intellectual and developmental disabilities; gynecologic health conditions, including pelvic floor disorders; and childhood injury and critical illness; and rehabilitation medicine.

The research interests of NICHD are described in more detail at: 
https://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/org/der/branches

Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact NICHD’s Scientific/Research Contact before preparing an application to discuss the relevance of the proposed research and training to the Institute’s research priorities.

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Scientific Program Contact:
Alberto L. Rivera-Rentas, Ph.D.
Phone: (301) 451-3245
Email:  [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Samantha Tempchin
Telephone: 301-435-1404
Email: [email protected]

NIDCD Specific Information:

The NIDCD conducts the peer review of applications for this fellowship program for students enrolled in integrated dual clinical-research doctoral degree programs (where both degrees will be conferred at the culmination of doctoral study) within its Scientific Review Branch based on the expedited review schedule of four to five months from submission to award.

NIDCD supports research and research training in hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech and language.  Since NIH Institutes have overlapping programmatic interests, prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the Institute’s Scientific Program Contact in the early stages of formulating an application to ensure that the proposed research is within NIDCD’s scientific purview.  In addition, please consult NIDCD’s Fellowship Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQs) at http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/funding/types/pages/fellowship_faqs.aspx.

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

Scientific Program Contact:

Rachel Saré, Ph.D.

Phone: 301-569-0273

E-mail: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Gabriel Hidalgo, MBA

Phone: 301-827-4630

E-mail: [email protected]

NIDCR Specific Information:

NIDCR supports predoctoral dual degree DDS/DMD and Ph.D. (or equivalent) research training programs. NIDCR does not support MD-Ph.D. or any other type of predoctoral dual-degree research training program.

Prospective applicants must demonstrate a commitment to a career in dental, oral, and craniofacial health research, and the proposed research training experience is expected to foster a career in research relevant to the NIDCR Strategic Plan (http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/Research/ResearchPriorities/StrategicPlan/ ).

All prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the NIDCR Scientific Program Contact before preparing an application to discuss eligibility and the relevance of the proposed research to the Institute’s research priorities.

NIDDK Specific Information:

NIDDK will support students who have identified a dissertation project, and appropriate dissertation director, in an area of research supported by the Institute: diabetes, endocrinology, metabolic diseases; gastroenterology, hepatology, obesity, nutrition; and kidney, urologic, and hematologic disorders.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the appropriate NIDDK program director before beginning the process of applying for a fellowship. 
 
 

National Institute on Drug Abuse

Scientific Program Contact:
Lindsey Friend
NIDA Office of Research Training, Diversity and Disparities
Phone: (301) 594-4673
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Nadia Felix
Phone: (301) 827-5701
Email:[email protected]

NIDA Specific Information:

NIDA supports the training of predoctoral fellows conducting drug abuse and addiction research. Prospective applicants are highly encouraged to contact a NIDA Program Official in their area of interest, prior to preparing an application.
For a list of NIDA training contacts, please see http://www.drugabuse.gov/ResearchTraining/Contacts.html. For additional guidance on applying for this predoctoral fellowship, visit http://www.nida.nih.gov/ResearchTraining/Predocfaqs.html.

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Scientific Program Contact:
Michael C. Humble, Ph.D.
Phone: (984) 287-3272
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Clark Phillips
Phone: (984) 287-3364
Email: [email protected] 

NIEHS Specific Information:

Training opportunities supported under this announcement by the NIEHS are expected to focus on the environmental health sciences and be responsive to the mission of the NIEHS, which is to reduce the burden of human illness and dysfunction from environmental causes by understanding how environmental factors, individual susceptibility and age interrelate in the disease process.

Fellowship applications should examine/address how an environmentally relevant toxicant or exposure is, or might be, involved in a human health endpoint such as a specific human disease, dysfunction, pathophysiologic condition, or relevant disease process. Examples of environmentally relevant toxicants include industrial chemicals or manufacturing byproducts, metals, pesticides, herbicides, air pollutants and other inhaled toxicants, particulates or fibers, and fungal/bacterial or biologically derived toxins. Agents considered non-responsive to this announcement include, but are not limited to: alcohol, drugs of abuse, pharmaceuticals, chemotherapeutic agents, radiation which is not a result of an ambient environmental exposure, and infectious or parasitic agents, except when agents are disease co-factors to an environmental toxicant exposure to produce the biological effect.

Fellowship applications may include research in the Environmental Public Health field in which communities which are exposed to environmental exposures or have concerns about environmentally related diseases are actively engaged in all stages of research, dissemination and evaluation. Examples of proposals in the Environmental Public Health field include investigating the health effects / impacts of environmental exposures that disproportionately burden low income or minority communities, investigating emerging environmental threats to communities, investigating exposure-related diseases that are of great concern to a community, and research and evaluation methodology to improve the theories and implementation strategies for working with communities to address their environmental health concerns. Fellows would learn how to conduct research using community based participatory methods, create outreach and education programs and translate research finding to a vast array of stakeholders.

National Institute of Mental Health

Scientific Program Contact:
James Churchill, Ph.D.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Telephone: 301-443-3621
Email: [email protected]

Mark Chavez, Ph.D.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Telephone: 301-443-8942
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Tamara Kees
Phone: (301) 443-8811
Email: [email protected]

NIMH Specific Information:

The NIMH supports a broad spectrum of basic and translational research, including basic neuroscience, human genetics, adult and developmental translational research, services and intervention research, and AIDS-related research (https://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/organization/nimh-extramural-research-programs.shtml) that advances our mission and strategic research priorities. See https://www.nimh.nih.gov/funding/training/nimh-nrsa-practices-and-guidance.shtml for guidance about NIMH-specific practices for individual fellowship applications and awards.

Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact Institute program staff before preparing an application to discuss the relevance of the proposed research to the Institute’s research priorities and for guidance on the proposed research and training plans.

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Scientific Program Contact:
Dorothy M. Castille, Ph.D.

Phone: 301-594-9411

E-mail: [email protected]
E-mail: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Priscilla Grant, JD
Phone: (301) 594-8412
Email: [email protected]

NIMHD Specific Information:

The mission of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) is to lead scientific research to improve minority health and eliminate health disparities http://www.nimhd.nih.gov. Applications are accepted for all areas of research, including biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social sciences, as related to minority health or health disparities.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact the Institute’s Scientific Program Contact in the early stages of formulating an application to discuss the relevance of the proposed research to the Institute’s research priorities.

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Scientific Program Contact:
Stephen J. Korn, Ph.D.
Phone: (301) 496-4188
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Email: [email protected]

National Institute of Nursing Research

Scientific Program Contact:
Sung Sug (Sarah) Yoon, RN, PhD
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
Telephone: 301-402-6959
Email: [email protected] 

Grants Management Contact:
Randi Freundlich
Phone: (301) 594-5974
Email: [email protected]

NINR Specific Information:

NINR uses the F30 fellowship to provide support for individuals pursuing combined DNP/PhD graduate training.

Applications must have a clear focus in science areas related to the NINR mission, which is to promote and improve the health of individuals, families, and communities.  Applicants should also consider NINR areas of special interest identified in NOT-NR-21-001.

Those interested in applying for this opportunity are strongly encouraged to contact the NINR Program Director for Extramural Training. The applicant may contact the NINR Program Director by emailing a copy of their draft NIH Biosketch with any questions and a draft synopsis of interests and research/training aims.

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

Scientific Program Contact:

Jennifer N. Baumgartner, Ph.D.
Phone: 301-402-4084
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:

Debbie Chen 
Phone: (301) 594-3788 
Email: [email protected]

NCCIH Specific Information:

NCCIH uses this program to support predoctoral individuals in supervised research training experiences. NCCIH will not accept applications to this program proposing to conduct new, free-standing clinical trials. Applicants to the fellowship programs interested in clinical trial research are encouraged to participate in the planning, design, and implementation of the mentor’s ongoing clinical trials in order to gain the training and experience necessary to become independent clinical investigators. Before the application receipt date, applicants and mentor(s) are strongly encouraged to discuss their proposed research interest with an NCCIH Program Officer in the specific scientific area and/or intervention that is closely related to the proposed project to confirm its relevance to NCCIH's mission, research priorities, and strategic plan. A list of NCCIH program officials can be found at https://nccih.nih.gov/grants/contact#area.

Applications that will include the use of natural products or devices in an ongoing interventional research project should explicitly describe the status of the Investigational New Drug (IND) or Investigational Device Exemption (IDE). Applicants interested in natural products research are encouraged to review NCCIH's Natural Product Integrity Policy.