Bridging Disciplines in the Brain, Behavioral, and Clinical Sciences (2000)
Chapter: Appendix D: Select National Institutes of Health Mechanisms for Training and Research Support
Select National Institutes of Health Mechanisms for Training and Research Support
Grant | Title | Description |
Fellowships | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | |||
T32 | National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training | Provides support to institutions to develop or enhance research training opportunities for predoctoral and postdoctoral students | |
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 | |
T35 | Short-Term Institutional Research Training | Provides support to institutions for predoctoral and postdoctoral training focused on biomedical and behavioral research | |
Cooperative Agreements | |||
U13 | Conference Award | Like R13, provides assistance for symposia, seminars, workshops, and so on, but with substantial programmatic involvement by NIH staff after award | |
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 | |
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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