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

National Cancer Institute  

Scientific Program Contact:
Mark Damico, Ph.D.
Phone: 240-276-5630
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Nicole Jones
Phone: 240-276-7156
Email:  [email protected]

NCI-Specific Information:

NCI requires a clear cancer focus in the research training and gives funding priority to applications for which the primary sponsor has cancer-related R01 (or equivalent) research funding. For the F30, R01-equivalent research funding includes peer-reviewed research grants with a minimum of 3 years in duration and $150,000 in annual direct costs. 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, PhD
Phone: 301-451-2020
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Wiiliam Darby
Phone: 301-451-2020
Email: [email protected]

NEI Specific Information:

See: /training/index.htm

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Scientific Program Contact:
Drew Carlson, PhD
Phone: (301) 435-0535
Email: [email protected]

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

NHLBI Specific Information:
 

The NHLBI is interested in supporting individual predoctoral fellowships for combined MD/PhD 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.”

Potential overlapping areas of interest shared by the NHLBI and other Institutes/Centers of the NIH include myeloproliferative and myelodysplastic disorders, hematological malignancies resulting from disruptions in hematopoiesis, and the use of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and other cellular therapies. The NHLBI does not support fellowship projects primarily focused on malignancy-related research, vaccine development, or pathogens per se. Therefore, applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the NHLBI before submitting an application to determine its appropriateness for this FOA and the mission of the NHLBI. Please see NOT-HL-12-162 for additional guidance.

NHLBI requires a Data and Safety Monitoring Plan for human subjects research with more than minimal risk.

National Human Genome Research Institute  

Scientific Program Contact:
Genomic Sciences:
Tina Gatlin, Ph.D.
Email: [email protected]

Genomic Medicine: 
Heather Junkins, M.S.
Email: [email protected] 

Ethical, Legal, Social Implications of Research:
Joy Boyer
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Susan Toy
Phone: 301-443-4935
Email: [email protected]

NHGRI Specific Information:

NHGRI has aligned its training and career development programs to its latest strategic plan: "Charting a course for genomic medicine from base pairs to bedside," (http://www.genome.gov/Pages/About/Planning/2011NHGRIStrategicPlan.pdf). See the 2013 NHGRI Training Workshop Report for more details (http://www.genome.gov/Pages/About/NACHGR/May2013
AgendaDocuments/Training_Career_Dev_Workshop.pdf).

NHGRI will give funding priority to: (a) applications that focus on genomic sciences and genomic medicine approaches with an emphasis on the quantitative sciences, bioinformatics or technology development, or (b) applications that focus on high priority ELSI issues and provide multidisciplinary conceptual and methodological training, and (c) applicants whose mentor(s) are funded by NHGRI.  NHGRI does not support disease-specific research.

Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact Program Directors to discuss their concept for this initiative during the development stages of the application.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Scientific Program Contact:
Microbiology and infectious disease (non-AIDS) research:
Christiane Robbins, M.P.H.; M.S.
Phone: 240-627-3357
Email: [email protected]

AIDS-related research:
Opendra Sharma, Ph.D.
Phone: 240-627-3203
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:
Laura Pone
Phone: (240) 669-2951
Email: [email protected]

NIAID Specific Information:

NIAID requires a clear scientific focus in graduate research training related to any of the NIAID mission areas: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/whoWeAre/planningPriorities/Documents/NIAIDStrategicPlan2013.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.

Please see also: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/researchfunding/t
raincareer/pages/fellowships.aspx, and http://www.niaid.nih.gov/researchfunding/
traincareer/Pages/default.aspx

NIBIB Specific Information: 

NIBIB supports dual-degree predoctoral research training in areas that are relevant to the scientific mission of NIBIB (http://www.nibib.nih.gov/about-nibib).

NIBIB will give priority to F30 applications with sponsors that are currently supported by NIBIB research grants, and where, in addition to the dissertation project, the applicant’s proposed training and future career goals are aligned with NIBIB’s mission areas.

For awards to be made, applications must clearly indicate the timeline of the entire dual degree program, and the portion of that program for which the award is requested. Should the awardee’s timeline change following submission of the application, awards will be adjusted as needed to maintain the minimum 50% predoctoral research requirement.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the NIBIB Scientific Contact on the left before they begin to prepare their application.  Additional information on NIBIB’s training programs can be found at http://www.nibib.nih.gov/training-careers.

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:
Susan Parker
Phone: 301-435-7006
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: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/grants-funding/opportunities
-mechanisms/areas-research/Pages/default.aspx.

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.

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.

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.

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 General Medical Sciences

Scientific Program Contact:
Regine Douthard, M.D., MPH
Phone: 301-435-1759 
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Lori Burge, B.S.
Phone: 301-451-3781
Email: [email protected]

NIGMS Specific Information:
 
NIGMS supports advanced predoctoral research training in basic biomedical sciences that are relevant to the NIGMS mission (http://www.nigms.nih.gov/About/Pages/default.aspx). Applicants must have identified a research sponsor, and dissertation project that includes a promising approach to the problem, with strong training potential.

NIGMS will give priority to funding F30 applications that: a) have sponsors who are currently supported by NIGMS research grants, and b) are not from NIGMS-supported MSTP institutions.

Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact Institute program staff (http://www.nigms.nih.gov/training/indivpredoc/Pages/predoctoral-fellowship-f30.aspx) 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 of Mental Health

Scientific Program Contact:
Nancy L Desmond, PhD
Phone: (301) 443-3107
Email: [email protected]

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

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Scientific Program Contact:
Shelia A. McClure, PhD
Phone: 301-451-6536
Email: [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 Contact:
Tijuanna E. DeCoster, MPA
Phone: 301-496-9231
Email: [email protected]

NINDS Specific Information:

NINDS supports the career development of neuroscientists (some rare exceptions apply), so the applicant must propose dissertation research in an area within the scientific mission of the NINDS and a training program appropriate for a career in neuroscience research.

NINDS will not provide funding to applicants beyond the 8th year in a dual degree program and will hold strictly to the requirement that at least 50% of the funding be for support of research leading to the research doctorate. For awards to be made, applications must clearly indicate the timeline of the entire dual degree program, and the portion of that program for which the award is requested. Should the awardee’s timeline change following submission of the application, awards will be adjusted as needed to maintain the minimum 50% predoctoral research requirement.

Applicants should consult the NINDS training website for NINDS specific information and instructions:http://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/areas/training_and_career_development/index.htm

National Library of Medicine

Scientific Program Contact:
Clinical and Public Health Informatics:
Hua-Chuan Sim, MD
Phone: 301-594-4882
Email: [email protected]

Translational and Bioinformatics:
Jane Ye, PhD
Phone: 301-594-4882
Email: [email protected]

Consumer Health Informatics:
Alan VanBiervliet, PhD
Phone: 301-594-4882
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Mr. Dwight Mowery
Phone:  301-496-4221
Email: [email protected]

NLM Specific Information:

NLM supports research career development in clinical/public health informatics, bioinformatics, translational informatics and consumer health informatics. We define informatics as the intersection of computer, information, biomedical and behavioral sciences with one or more application domains. Application domains of interest include health care delivery, basic biomedical research, clinical and translational research, public health and others.

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

Scientific Program Contact:
John Williamson, Ph.D.
Phone:
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Shelley Carow
Phone: (301) 594-3788
Email: [email protected]

NCCIH Specific Information:
NCCIH uses this program to support predoctoral individuals in supervised research training experiences.
Per NOT-AT-13-002, NCCIH will not accept applications to this program proposing to conduct new, free-standing clinical trials or studies. Applicants to the fellowship programs interested in clinical research are encouraged to participate in the planning, design, and implementation of the mentor’s ongoing clinical trials and studies 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.

Office of Research Infrastructure Programs

Scientific Program Contact:
Manuel Moro, DVM, Ph.D.
Phone:  301-435-0960
Email: [email protected]

Grants Management Contact:
Justin Birken
Phone:  301-480-3777
Email: [email protected]

ORIP Specific Information: 

Before the application receipt date, applicants are strongly encouraged to discuss their proposed research interest with ORIP’s scientific program contact. 

ORIP supports training applications exclusively from highly qualified veterinary students or holders of degrees in veterinary medicine in biomedical areas related to comparative /translational medicine.