Select National Institutes of Health Mechanisms for Training and Research Support
Grant |
Title |
Description |
Fellowships |
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F30 |
Individual Predoctoral National Research Service Award for MD/PhD Fellowship |
Fellowship award that provides combined medical school and predoctoral PhD support for a maximum of 6 years |
F31 |
Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award |
Fellowship award that provides up to 5 years of support for research training leading to the PhD or equivalent research |
F32 |
Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award |
Fellowship award that provides postdoctoral research training to broaden scientific background |
F33 |
National Research Service Award for Senior Fellow |
Fellowship award that provides opportunities for experienced scientists to broaden scientific background |
Career Awards |
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K01 |
Mentored Research Scientist Development Award |
Provides salary and fringe benefits for awardees for career development experience |
K02 |
Independent Scientist Award |
Provides up to 5 years of salary and fringe benefit support for newly independent scientists |
K05 |
Senior Scientist Award |
Provides salary and fringe benefit support for outstanding scientists to enhance skills in their research field |
K08 |
Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award |
Provides salary and fringe benefit support for the development of clinician research scientists |
K12 |
Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program Award |
Provides support to an educational institution for career development experiences for clinicians leading to research independence |
K23 |
Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award |
Provides salary and fringe benefit support for the development of patient-oriented research scientists |
K24 |
Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research |
Provides salary and fringe benefit support to allow protected time for patient-oriented research and time to act as mentors for beginning clinical investigators |
K25 |
Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award |
Provides salary and fringe benefit support for career development for scientists with quantitative and engineering backgrounds to foster interdisciplinary collaboration in biomedical research |
Program Grants |
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P01 |
Research Program Project |
Provides support for an integrated, multiproject research program involving a number of independent investigators who share knowledge and common resources |
P20 |
Exploratory Grant |
Provides support for the development of new or interdisciplinary programs or the expansion of existing resources |
P30 |
Center Core Grant |
Provides support for shared resources and facilities to a program providing a multidisciplinary approach with existing research funds |
P50 |
Specialized Center Grant |
Provides support to assemble “critical masses” of basic and clinical scientists to work together collaboratively |
Research Awards |
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R01 |
Research Project Grant |
Provides support for a discrete, specified, and circumscribed project that ranges in initial length from 2 to 5 years |
R13 |
Conference Grant |
Provides support for a symposium, seminar, workshop, or other formal conference assembled to exchange and disseminate information or to explore a subject, problem, or field of knowledge |
R25 |
Education Project Grant |
Provides support to develop a program in education, information, training, technical assistance, or evaluation |
Training Grants |
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T32 |
National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training |
Provides support to institutions to develop or enhance research training opportunities for predoctoral and postdoctoral students |
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T34 |
National Research Service Award-Institutional Undergraduate Research Training |
Provides support to institutions to promote undergraduate research training to underrepresented groups in the biomedical and behavioral sciences |
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T35 |
Short-Term Institutional Research Training |
Provides support to institutions for predoctoral and postdoctoral training focused on biomedical and behavioral research |
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Cooperative Agreements |
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U13 |
Conference Award |
Like R13, provides assistance for symposia, seminars, workshops, and so on, but with substantial programmatic involvement by NIH staff after award |
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U19 |
Research Project |
Like P01, provides assistance for broadly based multidisciplinary research programs, but with substantial NIH scientific and/or programmatic involvement during performance of research |
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U54 |
Specialized Center |
Provides assistance for multidisciplinary approaches to a specific disease or biomedical problem with programmatic involvement by NIH staff after award |
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