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Training, Fellowship, and Career Awards

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Here you will find information on a variety of fellowships, training grants, career development awards, and loan repayment programs. Learn about NIEHS-supported predoctoral and postdoctoral training and career development opportunities at universities and other institutions across the country as well as how supplements to existing research grants can be used for training purposes.

Career Development Awards

The purpose of Career Development Awards is to provide support and protected time for an intense, career development experience in the environmental health sciences. Applications must contain both a research proposal and a structured career development plan.

Fellowships

Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellowships provide an annual stipend, an allowance for tuition and fees, and an institutional research allowance. Applicants must identify a sponsoring institution and an individual who will serve as a sponsor (mentor or supervisor) and who will supervise the training and research experience.

Institutional Research Training

The NRSA program supports predoctoral training, postdoctoral training, and short-term research training experiences for medical students at selected universities across the United States. Institutional NRSA training grants are designed to allow the director of the program to select the trainees and to develop a curriculum of study and research experiences necessary to provide high quality research training.

Loan Repayment Program

The Loan Repayment Programs are designed to attract health professionals to careers in clinical, pediatric, health disparities, or contraceptive and infertility research. NIEHS participates in two of the five programs: clinical research and pediatric research.

Supplements

NIEHS supports a variety of supplement awards to help with improving diversity in research, responding to unforeseen events, or taking advantage of emerging technologies.

Support for International Scientists

NIEHS supports research training programs for international scientists at U.S. and non-U.S. institutions.

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