NIH EXTRAMURAL LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM REGARDING CLINICAL RESEARCHERS Release Date: September 17, 2001 NOTICE: NOT-OD-01-064 National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the availability of educational loan repayment under the NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Researchers (LRP-CR). The LRP-CR provides for the repayment of the educational loan debt of qualified health professionals who agree to conduct clinical research. The program provides for the repayment of up to $35,000 of the principal and interest of the educational loans of extramural grantees or awardees for each year of obligated service. Also, NIH covers the Federal taxes on the loan repayments, which are considered taxable income to program participants. The purpose of the Program is the recruitment and retention of highly qualified health professionals as clinical investigators. Through this notice, the NIH invites qualified health professionals who contractually agree to engage in clinical research as extramural grantees or awardees for at least two years, to apply for participation in the NIH Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Researchers. ELIGIBILITY. Specific eligibility criteria for the LRP for Clinical Researchers include the following: o Participants must be United States citizens, nationals, or permanent residents, o Participants must have a M.D., Ph.D., Pharm.D., D.O., D.D.S., D.M.D., D.P.M., D.C., N.D., or equivalent degree, o Participants must be affiliated with the NIH in one of the following ways: a) a recipient of postdoctoral National Research Service Award support on an individual postdoctoral fellowship (F32) or an institutional research training grant (T32). NRSA recipients will only be eligible for loan repayment during the first and third year of NRSA support. The second year of postdoctoral NRSA involves repayment of a service obligation incurred during the first year of NRSA support which eliminates the possibility of concurrent participation in the loan repayment program. b) a recipient of support under an individual or institutional research career development award including the following mechanisms: K01, the Mentored Research Scientist Development Award, K07, the Academic Clinical Scientist Development Award, K08, the Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award, K12, Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program Award, K22, the Career Transition Award with an extramural phase, K23, the Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award, or K25, the Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award. c) a first-time recipient of NIH grant support as the principal investigator of an: R01, a research project grant consisting of one research project, R03, a small research grant, R21, an exploratory/developmental grant, U01, a cooperative agreement consisting of one research project. d) a first-time director of subprojects on multicomponent center grants (P series grants, program project grants (P01)), or multicomponent cooperative agreements (U series). o Participants must have qualifying educational debt in excess of 20 percent of their annual income or compensation, as applicable, at their expected date of program eligibility. The expected date of program eligibility is the date by which the following conditions will be met: (a) award date of a qualifying grant, and (b) the NIH executes a LRP-CR contract. Contracts are not effective retroactive to the award date of the grant. o Participants must engage in clinical research, as defined by Section 206 of Public Law 106-505, the Public Health Improvement Act, which states: The term clinical research means patient-oriented clinical research conducted with human subjects, or research on the causes and consequences of disease in human populations involving material of human origin (such as tissue specimens and cognitive phenomena) for which an investigator or colleague directly interacts with human subjects in an outpatient or inpatient setting to clarify a problem in human physiology, pathophysiology or disease, or epidemiologic or behavioral studies, outcomes research or health services research, or developing new technologies, therapeutic interventions, or clinical trials. o Individuals with existing service obligations to Federal, State, or other entities will not be considered for the Program unless and until the existing service obligation is discharged or deferred for the length of Program participation. Further, any individual who has a Federal judgment lien against his/her property arising from a Federal debt is barred from receiving Federal funds, until the judgment is paid in full or satisfied. o Applicants will not be excluded from consideration under the Program on the basis of age, race, culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other non-merit factors. NIH will evaluate the applicant and awardee pools after the first year of operation to assess and measure the extent of recruitment and retention of qualified health professionals to clinical research. At that time, NIH will expand the pool of individuals eligible to apply for loan repayment. INQUIRIES Information regarding the eligibility requirements and benefits for the program may be obtained via the LRP website http://lrp.info.nih.gov. Requests for applications may be submitted via the LRP website https://lrp.info.nih.gov/NIHLRP/Apply.aspx. Application forms for this program are not currently available. Forms are being developed and are subject to approval by the Office of Management and Budget. It is anticipated that applications will be available by December 1, 2001. A receipt date for applications will be announced in a subsequent notice in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. G. Stephane Philogene, Ph.D. Associate Director for Policy Office of Loan Repayment and Scholarship OIR/OD/National Institutes of Health Website: http://lrp.info.nih.gov E-mail: lrp@nih.gov


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