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NIH Research Training & Research Career Development

http://grants.nih.gov/training/

Research and training opportunities at NIH, range from summer programs for high school students through employment for doctoral and postdoctoral scientists.

Extramural Training Mechanisms (Training Supported by NIH)

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) Training Grants and Fellowships

  • Partial listing of individual fellowships (F30, F31, F32, and F33) awarded to individuals at a specific stage of professional development.
    • Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows (F30)
      Supported by the NIA, NIAAA, NIDA, NIDCD, NIDDK, NIEHS, NIMH, NINDS, and ODS, this program is intended for individuals in combined MD/PhD fellowship training. Applicants must show potential to become productive, independent, highly trained physician-scientists, including patient-oriented physician-scientists, in scientific mission areas of one or more of the sponsoring NIH entities.

    • Individual Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
      Supported by NCI, NCCAM, NCRR, NEI, NHLBI, NHGRI, NIA, NIAAA, NIAID, NIAMS, NIBIB, NICHD, NIDCD, NIDCR, NIDDK, NIDA, NIEHS, NIGMS, NIMH, NINDS, NINR, and ODS, this program is intended to promote diversity in health-related research by supporting research training leading to the PhD or equivalent research degree, the combined MD/PhD degree; or another formally combined professional degree and research doctoral degree in biomedical, behavioral, health services, or clinical sciences.

    • Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31)
      This fellowship program is supported by the NIA, NIAAA, NIDA, NIDCD, NIDCR, NIMH, NINDS, and ODS. The programs objective is to provide support for promising doctoral candidates (PhD, MD/PhD, or equivalent) who will be performing dissertation research and training in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH entities.

    • Individual Predoctoral Fellowship Training in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (F31)
      The purpose of this NCCAM individual predoctoral fellowship is to help ensure that diverse pools of highly trained scientists will be available in adequate numbers and in appropriate research areas to carry out the Nation's biomedical, behavioral and clinical research agendas in complementary and alternative medicine.

    • Individual Postdoctoral Fellows (F32)
      Supported by NIA, NIAAA, NIAID, NIAMS, NIBIB, NCI, NICHD, NIDCD, NIDCR, NIDDK, NIDA, NIEHS, NEI, NIGMS, NHLBI, NHGRI, NIMH, NINDS, NINR, NCRR, and ODS, this program is to provide support to promising postdoctoral applicants who have the potential to become productive and successful independent research investigators in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers.

    • Postdoctoral Training in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (F32)
      The primary objective of this NCCAM funding opportunity is to help ensure that diverse pools of highly trained scientists will be available in adequate numbers and in appropriate research areas to carry out the Nation's biomedical, behavioral, and clinical CAM research agendas.

    • Individual Senior Fellows (F33)
      This is the NIH Omnibus F33 program supported by NCI, NEI, NHLBI, NHGRI, NIA, NIAAA, NIAID, NIAMS, NICHD, NIDCD, NIDCR, NIEHS, NIGMS, NINDS, NINR, NCCAM, and ODS. The objective of this program is to provide senior fellowship support to experienced scientists who wish to make major changes in the direction of their research careers or who wish to broaden their scientific background by acquiring new research capabilities as independent research investigators in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH.

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Career Development Awards (K Awards)

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  • Academic Career Award (K07).

  • Cancer Prevention, Control, Behavioral, and Population Sciences Career Development Award (K07)

  • Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (K08)

  • NIDDK Mentored Clinical Scientist Award to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (K08)

  • NCI Mentored Clinical Scientist Award to Promote Diversity (K08)

  • Career Transition Awards provide support to an individual postdoctoral fellow in transition to a faculty position (K22)

  • Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23)

  • NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Award (K99/R00)

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Intramural Training Mechanisms (Training within NIH)

  • Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research

    http://www.training.nih.gov/student/sip/
    The Summer Internship Program (SIP) at the NIH provides an opportunity to spend the summer working side-by-side with some of the leading scientists in the world in an environment devoted exclusively to biomedical research. Students sixteen years of age or older who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and are currently enrolled at least half-time in high school, an accredited U.S. college or university or an accredited U.S. medical/dental school are eligible to apply. Students who have been accepted into a college or university may also apply.

  • Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Program

    http://www.training.nih.gov/student/pre-irta/previewpostbac.asp
    The Postbaccalaureate IRTA program and the National Cancer Institute's CRTA program provide opportunities for recent college graduates to spend a year engaged in biomedical research at the NIH. U.S. citizens or permanent residents who have received a bachelor's degree from an accredited U.S. college or university and who have held the degree for less than two years are eligible to apply – stipends are provided.

  • NIH Academy

    http://www.training.nih.gov/student/pre-irta/previewacademy.asp
    The NIH Academy is a postbaccalaureate program that provides opportunities for recent college graduates to spend a year engaged in biomedical investigation at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. The mission of the Academy is to enhance research dedicated to the elimination of domestic health disparities through the development of a diverse cadre of biomedical researchers. Provides a stipend.

  • Master of Science in Biotechnology with a Concentration in Molecular Targets and Drug Discovery Technologies, National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Johns Hopkins University

    http://ccr.nci.nih.gov/careers/jhu/
    This competitive program will recruit immediate post-baccalaureates to work in CCR/NCI laboratories on projects related to the Molecular Targets Initiative. While studying for the Master of Science in Biotechnology, the fellows will receive paid tuition for up to two years and an annual stipend.

  • Center for Cancer Research Interns in Residence (CRIR), NCI

    http://ccr.cancer.gov/careers/clinical_programs.asp
    The Cancer Research Interns in Residence (CRIR) Program was inaugurated in 2004 to further embrace diversity of trainee applicants to CCR. The Office of Training and Education provides the training dollars, some Service & Supply funds, and housing for financially qualified. CRIR has expanded the network of colleges, universities, and minority-targeted programs to bring a new group of interns to the Center for Cancer Research each summer.

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NCI Fellowships and internships

  • Behavioral Research Career Resources and Training Announcements

    http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/brp/about/career_training.html
    Fellowship opportunities for graduates of postdoctoral, master's, and bachelor's degree programs with education and interest in cancer control research, including health promotion, health communications, informatics, and other areas of behavioral and social science.

  • Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics: Fellowships

    Postdoctoral and predoctoral fellowship opportunities, as well as summer research programs for high school, college, and graduate students, including medical and dental students - in epidemiology and genetics and the etiology of cancer in human populations. Nutrition Epidemiology Branch

  • Health Communications Internship Program

    https://hcip.nci.nih.gov/
    Offers paid six-month internships in health communications and science writing; provides students who are completing their master's or doctorate degrees with an opportunity to be a part of vital health and science communications projects.

  • Training Resources at the NCI

    http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding/training

    • Predoctoral Candidates
      Cancer Education and Career Development Program (R25T)
      Institutional award for predoctoral or postdoctoral candidates or mentored junior faculty who are pursuing careers in cancer prevention, control, behavioral, and population sciences.

    • Transdisciplinary Sciences
      Cancer Education and Career Development Program (R25T)
      Institutional award for predoctoral or postdoctoral candidates or mentored junior faculty who are pursuing careers in cancer prevention, control, behavioral, and population sciences or transdisciplinary sciences.

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Other Government Internships

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Non Government Opportunities

  • The American Dietetic Association Foundation (ADAF)

    http://www.adaf.org/cps/rde/xchg/adaf/hs.xsl/adaf.html Exit Disclaimer
    As the largest provider of dietetic scholarships, the ADA Foundation provides funding to deserving students at all levels of study.

  • International Food Information Council

    http://www.ific.org/about/sroweaward.cfm Exit Disclaimer
    Sylvia Rowe Fellowship Award: Internship in Nutrition, Food Safety, Risk Communication - established to help promising nutrition and food safety communicators enhance their capabilities. The recipient will be awarded a six to 12 week paid internship at the IFIC Foundation offices in Washington, DC. The internship needs to be completed by the end of the year in which it is awarded.

  • The National Academies, Fellowships Office of Policy and Global Affairs

    http://www7.nationalacademies.org/FELLOWSHIPS/ Exit Disclaimer
    Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships for Achieving Excellence in College and University Teaching are designed to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships are available.

  • American Society for Nutritional Sciences

    http://www.nutrition.org/about-asn/awards/pre-doctoral/ Exit Disclaimer
    Predoctoral Fellowships in Nutrition Research provides 1-year awards are for $5,000 each.

  • American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences

    http://www.aafcs.org/ Exit Disclaimer
    Annually offers 25 graduate Student Fellowships, most of the awards support nutrition research as one of the "family and consumer" sciences.

  • American Association of Cereal Chemists

    http://www.scisoc.org/aacc Exit Disclaimer
    The Graduate Fellowship Program supports nutrition research related to cereals and oilseeds. Approximately 15 fellowships may be awarded for $2,000 to $3,000 each.

  • Dannon Institute

    http://www.dannon-institute.org/ Exit Disclaimer
    Postdoctoral Nutrition Fellowship program that accepts proposals in interdisciplinary nutrition research and in children's nutrition research.

  • Kaiser Family Foundation

    http://www.kff.org/ Exit Disclaimer

    • The Kaiser Media Internships in Health Reporting
      http://www.kff.org/mediafellows/mediainternships.cfm#AboutInternship Exit Disclaimer
      The Kaiser Media Internships Program is an intensive 12-week summer internship for your journalists interested in specializing in health reporting with a particular commitment to coverage of health issues affecting diverse and immigrant communities. Stipends are provided.

    • The Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program
      http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/bjscholars/index.cfm Exit Disclaimer
      This program brings talented college seniors and recent graduates to Washington, D.C., where they are placed in congressional offices and learn about health policy issues, with a focus on issues affecting racial and ethnic minority and underserved communities. Through the nine-week program, Scholars gain knowledge about federal legislative procedure and health policy issues, while further developing their critical thinking and leadership skills.

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Additional Resources

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