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Important note regarding Diversity Recruitment and Retention: The new T32 announcement describes a major policy change, calling for a "Recruitment and Retention Plan to Enhance Diversity." However, new instructions for responding to this policy will not be available until sometime in 2008. Therefore, applications will not be held to this new policy until a new set of instructions are published. We encourage program directors to review the new policy in preparation for future applications. The new policy guidance can be found on the NIH Office of Extramural Research website.
The NINDS supports four types of Institutional Training Grants (T32; see below). The Broadly Based, Highly Focused, and Program to Increase Diversity support both predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees. The Jointly Sponsored Predoctoral Training Program supports only predoctoral candidates. There is just one application deadline, May 25, for all active programs.
The Broadly Based and Highly Focused Training grants may be used to support any combination of advanced (dissertation phase) predoctoral Ph.D. and M.D. candidates, who may be appointed for periods of one or more years, and postdoctoral candidates, who may be appointed for a period of one to three years. NINDS will not support first and second year, or pre-dissertation graduate students, under these programs. Support for first and second year graduate students in the neurosciences is provided through the Jointly Sponsored NIH Predoctoral Training Program in the Neurosciences (see below).
Applications must specify the anticipated predoctoral to postdoctoral ratio. After a training grant has been awarded, T32 directors who wish to make changes in this ratio must obtain prior approval of the Director of Training and Career Development. If the original application requested support exclusively for either pre-doctoral or postdoctoral trainees, additional information, provided for administrative review, is required for approval to support the alternative category of trainee. A letter of intent is NOT required for either of these two types of grants.
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Last updated August 19, 2008