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