National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Ms. Linda Whipp
Chief, Grants and Contracts Management Office
National Institute on Aging
7201 Wisconsin Avenue
Suite 2N212
Bethesda, MD 20892-9205
Telephone: (301) 496-1472
FAX: (301) 402-3672
Email: WhippL@mail.nih.gov

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Dr. Dennis A. Twombly
Division of Neuroscience and Behavior
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
5635 Fishers Lane
Rm. 2048, MSC 9304
Bethesda, MD 20892
Telephone: (301) 443-9334
FAX: (301) 443-1650
Email: dtwombly@mail.nih.gov

Ms. Judy Fox
Chief, Grants Management Branch
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
5635 Fishers Lane, Rm. 3023, MSC 9304
Bethesda, MD., 20892-9304
Telephone: (301) 443-4704
FAX: (301) 443-3891
Email: jfox@mail.nih.gov

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

Janet L. Cyr, Ph.D.
Division of Scientific Programs
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication  Disorders
Executive Plaza So., Rm. 400C
6120 Executive Blvd., MSC-7180
Bethesda, MD 20892-7180
(for courier, zip code is 20852)
Telephone: (301) 402-3458
FAX: (301) 402-6251
Email: cyrj@nidcd.nih.gov

Mr. Christopher Myers
Grants Management Branch
Division of Extramural Activities National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Executive Plaza So., Rm. 400B
6120 Executive Blvd., MSC-7180
Bethesda , MD 20892-7180
Telephone: (301) 402-0909
FAX: (301) 402-1758
Email: myersc@mail.nih.gov

The NIDCD utilizes the F30 award for the research training of clinician-scientists pursuing the full-range of dual health professional/clinical (e.g., MD, DO, DDS, AuD, PsyD) and research (e.g., PhD, DSc) doctoral degrees in an integrated program, such that both degrees are conferred at the end of the period of doctoral study.  Health professional students who are pursuing a research doctoral degree independently of their clinical doctoral training (i.e., they are not enrolled in an integrated dual-degree program) should consider submitting a dissertation-stage F31 award application to the NIDCD.

The NIDCD requires that the sponsor hold NIH research grant support as a principal investigator in the area of the applicant's proposed research.

The NIDCD conducts the peer review of applications for this fellowship program within its Scientific Review Branch, based on an expedited review schedule of four-five months from submission to award. In order to maintain this schedule, it is imperative that applicants submitting applications that are determined, upon consultation with the Institute's research training program official noted above, to be within the scientific purview of the NIDCD concurrently send, at the time of submission to the NIH Center for Scientific Review, one of the application copies and all sets of appendix materials, if any, to:

Chief, Scientific Review Branch
Division of Extramural Activities
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
6120 Executive Boulevard , Room 400-C - MSC-7180
Bethesda , MD 20892-7180
Telephone: (301) 496-8683
FAX: (301) 402-6250
ATTN: NRSA predoctoral fellowship

Applications that are incomplete at the time of submission or are late will be deferred or returned.

The NIDCD expects that training in the responsible conduct of research be taken within the format of a semester-long course or seminar series, allowing for face-to-face discussion of material presented and assigned. Applicants who have not completed such training within the last three years should describe their plan to take another course or seminar series in the responsible conduct of research to update their knowledge in this dynamically changing domain.

Answers to common queries about NIDCD-specific fellowship policies and procedures are provided in the following document: http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/funding/types/fellowship_faqs.htm. Please contact the NIDCD program official noted above if you have any remaining questions.

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

For Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases:
James F. Hyde, Ph.D.
 6707 Democracy Blvd., Room 789
Bethesda, MD 20892-5460
Telephone: (301) 594-7692
Fax: (301) 480-0475
Email: HydeJ@mail.nih.gov

For Digestive and Liver Diseases, Obesity, and Nutrition:
Judith Podskalny, Ph.D.
6707 Democracy Blvd., Room 667
Bethesda, MD 20892-5450
Telephone: (301) 594-8876
FAX: (301) 480-8300
Email: PodskalnyJ@mail.nih.gov

For Kidney and Urologic Diseases:
Tracy L. Rankin, Ph.D.
6707 Democracy Blvd., Room 623
Bethesda, MD  20892-5854
Phone:  (301) 594-4748
FAX:  (301) 480-3510
Email:  RankinT@mail.nih.gov

For Hematologic Diseases:
Terry Rogers Bishop, Ph.D.
6707 Democracy Blvd., Room 619
Bethesda, MD 20892-5458
Telephone: (301) 594-7726
FAX: (301) 480-3510
Email: BishopT@mail.nih.gov

Shelly Carow
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH
6707 Democracy Blvd., Room 610
Bethesda, MD 20892-5453
Telephone: (301) 594-8853
FAX: (301) 594-9523
Email: CarowS@mail.nih.gov

Institute/Center Specific Information: NIDDK will support students who have identified a dissertation project, and appropriate dissertation director, in an area of research supported by the Institute: diabetes, endocrinology, metabolic diseases; gastroenterology, hepatology, obesity, nutrition; and kidney, urologic, and hematologic disorders.  Applicants are encouraged to contact the appropriate NIDDK program director before beginning the process of applying for a fellowship. 

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Mary F. Curvey
Division of Neuroscience and Basic Behavioral Science
National Institute of Mental Health
6001 Executive Blvd.
Room 7213 MSC 9647
Bethesda, MD 20892-9647
Telephone: (301) 443-3107
FAX: (301) 443-4822
Email: mcurvey@mail.nih.gov

Ms. Rebecca Claycamp
Chief, Grants Management Branch
National Institute of Mental Health
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 6122, MSC 9605
Bethesda, MD 20892-9605
Telephone: (301) 443-2811
FAX: (301) 443-6885
Email: rclaycam@mail.nih.gov

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Gary Fleming, J.D.
Chief, Grants Management Branch/OPRM
National Institute on Drug Abuse/NIH/DHHS
6101 Executive Boulevard, Room 270
Bethesda, MD 20892
Telephone: (301) 443-6710
FAX: (301) 594-6849
Email: gfleming@nida.nih.gov

National Institute of Environmental Sciences (NIEHS)

Mrs. Lisa Edwards
Grants Management Branch EC-22
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
P.O. Box 12233
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Telephone: (919) 541-0751
FAX: (919) 541-2860

Institute/Center Specific Information

Training opportunities supported under this announcement by the NIEHS are expected to focus on the environmental health sciences and be responsive to the mission of the NIEHS, which is to reduce the burden of human illness and dysfunction from environmental causes by understanding how environmental factors, individual susceptibility and age interrelate in the disease process.

Fellowship proposals should examine/address how an environmentally relevant toxicant or exposure is, or might be, involved in a human health endpoint such as a specific human disease, dysfunction, pathophysiologic condition, or relevant disease process.  Examples of environmentally relevant toxicants include industrial chemicals or manufacturing byproducts, metals, pesticides, herbicides, air pollutants and other inhaled toxicants, particulates or fibers, and fungal/bacterial or biologically derived toxins. Agents considered non-responsive to this announcement include, but are not limited to:  alcohol, drugs of abuse, pharmaceuticals, chemotherapeutic agents, radiation which is not a result of an ambient environmental exposure, and infectious or parasitic agents, except when agents are disease co-factors to an environmental toxicant exposure to produce the biological effect.

Fellowship proposals may include research in the Environmental Public Health field in which communities which are exposed to environmental exposures or have concerns about environmentally related diseases are actively engaged in all stages of research, dissemination and evaluation.  Examples of proposals in the Environmental Public Health field include investigating the health effects / impacts of environmental exposures that disproportionately burden low income or minority communities, investigating emerging environmental threats to communities, investigating exposure-related diseases that are of great concern to a community, and research and evaluation methodology to improve the theories and implementation strategies for working with communities to address their environmental health concerns. Fellows would learn how to conduct research using community based participatory methods, create outreach and education programs and translate research finding to a vast array of stakeholders.

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

Stephen J. Korn, Ph.D.
Director of Training and Career Development
NINDS, NIH
Neuroscience Center, Rm 2186
6001 Executive Blvd.
Bethesda, MD 20892-9531(Courier: Rockville, MD 20852)
Phone: (301) 496-4188
Fax: (301) 480-1080 
Email: korns@ninds.nih.gov

Yvonne Talley
Grants Management Specialist
6001 Executive Blvd. NSC/Rm. 3252
Bethesda, MD 20892-9537
Rockville,  MD 20852-(Express Mail)
Phone: (301) 496-7432
Fax: (301) 451-5635
Email: talleyy@mail.nih.gov

The NINDS supports researchers who propose to conduct biomedical research in areas of high priority/public health significance to neurological sciences and who document that the proposed graduate program and proposed research project offer them an opportunity to develop expert research skills and knowledge leading to a research career in neurological sciences. Applicants for F30 awards are STRONGLY encouraged to contact an NINDS Program Director before they begin to prepare their application, as NINDS will consider only those applications that are designed to support the training and development of scientists with interests relevant to the mission of NINDS.

It is requested that applicants provide a timeline in all F30 submissions of their entire MD/PhD program, and specify when during this timeline medical school curricula and research will be pursued. This timeline should list the actual months and years (i.e. calendar months and years, not just “year 1, year 2, year 3”, etc.) of their program, with highlighted reference to the dates within that timeline for which F30 support is requested. A convenient place to put this information would be at the end of item 20, on a continuation page if necessary, on Form page 3 of the 416 application form.

Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Not Applicable