Program Description
This program offered by the: Office of Training and Diversity, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
APPLICATION PERIOD OPENS AUGUST 15
Outstanding undergraduate, graduate, and medical students will be selected to participate. Expenses for travel, hotel accommodations, and meals will be paid.
Students participating in the 4-day INRO program will:
- Learn about research and training opportunities in NIAID’s Division of Intramural Research (DIR).
- Hear scientific lectures and participate in informal discussions with world-renowned researchers within the various NIAID laboratories.
- Tour NIAID laboratories on the Bethesda and Rockville, MD, campuses.
- Interview with NIAID principal investigators seeking to fill training positions, such as postbaccalaureate and postdoctoral.
What training opportunities will participants learn about at NIAID?
The INRO program seeks students desiring placements at the Institute to conduct research in allergy, immunology, or infectious diseases. Only those students actively pursuing a research training position at NIAID will be selected. Students will learn about the various training opportunities available to them at NIAID. These training programs include:
- Summer Internship Program
Successful applicants will join one of NIAID’s research laboratories for a minimum of 8 consecutive weeks between late May and August. Some flexibility in scheduling exists to accommodate individual student needs. - Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training
Recent college graduates will spend a year engaged in biomedical investigation at one of NIAID's research laboratories. In addition, during their tenure in the program, postbaccalaureate fellows also are expected to initiate the application process for graduate or medical school. The duration of the program is normally 1 year, but the fellowship can be extended for an additional year provided the performance of the trainee is satisfactory and continued support by the laboratory is available. - Postdoctoral Intramural Research Training
Various training opportunities are available in NIAID’s intramural laboratories and at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) research hospital, the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center. These opportunities include training in the basic sciences as well as subspecialty and fellowship training for physicians and dentists. - Graduate Partnerships Program
Students spend their first year at the university while taking graduate-level courses. In the second year, students move partially or completely to the NIH campus for their research and continue in higher-level graduate courses. The following years are dedicated completely to research. Affiliation with the home university is maintained throughout the graduate program experience. - Year-Off Training Program for Graduate and Medical Students
These programs are designed to provide research training at NIAID for students who are enrolled in graduate or medical degree programs and have permission from their institution to interrupt their current education, with the understanding that they will return to their degree-granting institution within 1 year.
INRO is intended to support underrepresented minority students interested in pursuing a research career in allergy, immunology, or infectious diseases. If your interests lie outside the biomedical research areas of NIAID, NIH offers a number of other training programs for which you may be eligible. For information on all of NIH's training programs, please visit Research and Training Opportunities.
Participation in INRO does not guarantee a training position at NIAID. Every effort will be made to identify laboratories within NIAID that would be a good match for INRO participants.
Contact Information
For questions related to INRO, please e-mail the INRO Program Coordinator at INRO@niaid.nih.gov.
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