Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Senior Fellowship (Parent F33) PA-23-263

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Scientific Program Contact:
Wayne Wang, PhD
Phone: 301-435-0535
E-mail: [email protected]

Seung Kyoon Woo, Ph.D.
Phone: 301-435-0535
E-mail: [email protected] 

Karen Neilson Ph.D.
Phone: 301-451-1975
E-mail: [email protected] 

Grants Management Contact:
Chantal Falade
Phone: (301) 827-5870
Email: [email protected]

NHLBI Specific Information:

The NHLBI supports senior fellows who can continue as experienced scientist researchers in the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lungs, and blood; and in the uses of blood and blood resources.

See NHLBI Mission Statement. Prospective applicants are encouraged to read the NHLBI Strategic Plan to familiarize themselves with the research areas of interest to the Institute. 

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:

Information on NIA’s mission in supporting genetic, biological, clinical, behavioral, social, and economic research on aging can be found at: http://www.nia.nih.gov/research

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

National Institute on Drug Abuse

Scientific Program Contact:
Lindsey Friend
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 postdoctoral 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 postdoctoral fellowship, visit http://www.nida.nih.gov/ResearchTraining/Postdocfaqs.html..

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 welcomes senior fellowship applications from experienced scientists (at least seven years beyond the qualifying doctoral degree), enabling them to update their skills or make changes in the direction of their careers. Support may be requested for up to two years.

Applicants must conduct research relevant to the NIDCR Strategic Plan and demonstrate a commitment to a career in dental, oral, and craniofacial health research. Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the NIDCR Scientific Program Contact before preparing an application to discuss the relevance of the F33 proposal to the Institute’s research priorities. 

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.