Training and Career Development Opportunities
Types of research training and career development awards with links to specific program announcements (PAs). Includes Undergraduate, Graduate, Postdoctoral, Independent Career, and CAM Practitioners.
On this page:
- Undergraduate Students
- Graduate Students
- Postdoctoral Trainees
- Newly Independent Investigators
- Mid-Career and Senior Investigators
- CAM Practitioners
- NCCAM Contacts
Undergraduate Students
For Individuals
Graduate Students
For Individuals
- F31: NCCAM Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
- Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
For Institutions
- Re-Issuance of Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA)
- T32: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Program
- T35: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grant
Postdoctoral Trainees
This includes applicants who have received a D.C., D.D.S., D.O., D.Psy., D.P.M., Dr.P.H., D.Sc., D.S.W., D.V.M., Eng.D., M.D., N.D., O.D., O.M.D., Pharm.D., or Ph.D., or equivalent doctoral degree from an accredited domestic or foreign institution.
For Individuals
- F32: NCCAM Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows
- K99/R00: NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Award
- Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
- Research Supplements to Promote Reentry into Biomedical and Behavioral Research Careers
For Institutions
- Re-Issuance of Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA)
- T32: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Program
- T35: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grants
Newly Independent Investigators
NCCAM is strongly committed to assisting new investigators in establishing a research career. Each Advisory Council round, based on available funds, NCCAM: 1) will consider early stage or new investigator status as one of the criteria for designating grant applications as being of high program priority and 2) may make additional R01 grant awards to new and early stage investigators with percentiles or scores beyond the formal payline.
For Individuals
- K01: Mentored Research Scientist Development Award
- K07: Academic Career Award (Development)
- K08: Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award
- K23: Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award
- Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
- Research Supplements to Promote Reentry into Biomedical and Behavioral Research Careers
Mid-Career and Senior Investigators
For Individuals
- K07: Academic Career Award (Leadership)
- K24: Mid-Career Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research
- Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
- Research Supplements to Promote Reentry into Biomedical and Behavioral Research Careers
CAM Practitioners
NCCAM Contacts
Dr. Alberto Rivera-Rentas
E-mail: alberto.rivera-rentas@nih.gov
Dr. Rivera-Rentas can answer questions about the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Training Grants, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowship Awards, and career development awards (T, F, and K awards). He is also the contact for diversity and reentry research supplements.
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