The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants (T32) to eligible, domestic institutions to develop and/or enhance predoctoral and postdoctoral research training, including short-term research training, to help ensure that a diverse and highly trained workforce is available to meet the needs of the Nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research agenda.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/25/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
Research training programs are expected to incorporate engaging, didactic, research, and career development elements to prepare trainees for careers that will have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the Nation. Programs proposing only short-term predoctoral research training should not apply to this announcement, but rather to the Kirschstein-NRSA Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grant Program (T35) exclusively reserved for predoctoral, short-term research training.
The purpose of the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grant (T32) program is to develop and/or enhance research training opportunities for individuals interested in careers in biomedical, behavioral or social sciences, and clinical research, in health services research, or in any other discipline relevant to the NIH mission. NIH encourages biomedical research training to keep pace with the rapid evolution of the biomedical research enterprise that is increasingly complex, interdisciplinary, quantitative, and collaborative. Programs should prepare trainees to effectively engage in a research enterprise characterized by increased breadth in the backgrounds of individuals participating, the approaches taken to investigate research questions, and the range of careers that biomedical doctoral recipients are pursuing. There is also increasing recognition of the need to enhance the reproducibility of biomedical research results through scientific rigor and transparency, and the skills of mentors to effectively engage a more diverse trainee population.
Each proposed program should provide rigorous research training, and mentored research experiences, and are expected to help trainees develop:
- The skills to independently acquire the knowledge needed to advance their chosen field;
- The ability to think critically and independently, and to identify important research questions and approaches that push forward the boundaries of their areas of study;
- An understanding of the health-related sciences and the relationship of their research training to health and disease;
- A strong foundation in scientific reasoning, rigorous and reproducible research design, experimental methods, quantitative and computational approaches, and data analysis and interpretation;
- The skills to conduct research in the safest manner possible, and a commitment to approaching biomedical research responsibly, ethically, and with integrity;
- Experience initiating, conducting, interpreting and presenting rigorous and reproducible research with increasing self-direction;
- The ability to work effectively in teams with colleagues from a variety of cultural and scientific backgrounds and to promote inclusive and supportive scientific research environments;
- The skills to teach and communicate scientific research methodologies and findings to a wide variety of audiences (e.g., discipline-specific, across disciplines, and the public); and
- The knowledge, professional skills, and experiences required to identify and transition into careers in the biomedical research workforce.
Grant Period
Awards for T32 institutional NRSA research training grants may be for project periods up to five years in duration and are renewable.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Organizations
- Higher Education Institutions
- Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher Education
- The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
- Higher Education Institutions
- Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Local Governments
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
- U.S. Territory or Possession
- Other
- Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
- Federal Governments
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
- U.S. Territory or Possession.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
