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Intramural Research Program Personnel Demographics (End FY17)

IRP Principal Investigators by Gender

Intramural Professional Designation (IPD) Total Females Males
Senior Investigator (including
NIH Distinguished Investigators)1
822 191 (23%) 631 (77%)
Investigator (Tenure-Track)1 211 79 (37%) 132 (63%)
Senior Clinician1 25 8 (32%) 17 (68%)
Senior Scientist1 44 13 (30%) 31 (70%)
Assistant Clinical Investigator1 28 13 (46%) 15 (54%)

IRP Non-Principal Investigators by Gender

Intramural Professional Designation (IPD) Total Females Males
Staff Clinician3,4 277 137 (49%) 140 (51%)
Staff Scientist2,3 1,423 532 (37%) 891 (63%)
Clinical Fellow/Senior CF2 278 144 (52%) 134 (48%)
Research Fellow/Senior RF2 509 217 (43%) 292 (57%)

IRP Principal Investigators by Race/Ethnicity

IPD White/Not Hispanic Am. Indian/ Alaska Native Black/Not Hispanic Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander Foreign Nationals Total
Sr. Inv.
(incl. NDI)1
640 (78%) 1 (0.1%) 11 (1.3%) 29 (3.5%) 135 (16%) 6 (0.7%) 822
Inv.1 139* (66%)
*1 mix race
1 (0.5%) 7 (3.3%) 9 (4.3%) 51* (24%)
*1 mix race
5 (2.4%) 211
Sr. Clinician1 20 (80%) 0 0 2 (8%) 3 (12%) 0 25
Sr. Scientist1 38 (86%) 0 2 (4.5%) 0 4 (9%) 0 44
Asst. Clin. Inv.1 17 (61%) 0 3* (11%)
*1 mix race
2 (7%) 6* (21%)
*1 mix race
1 (3.6%) 28

Non-FTE Trainee Demographics5

Trainee Type Total
Postdoctoral IRTA/CRTA 843
Postdoctoral VF 1,443
Predoctoral IRTA/CRTA (graduate/medical/dental long-term students) 310
Predoctoral VF (graduate students) 79
Postbaccalaureate IRTA/CRTA (includes Bach. CRTA) 1,309
Technical IRTA (includes Master's CRTA) 57
Student, Short-Term (summer6, medical/dental, pre-Bac CRTA, etc.) 1,429

Note: IRTA/CRTA are U.S. Citizens or U.S. Permanent Residents; VFs are Foreign Nationals (on visas, non-U.S. citizens and non-U.S. permanent residents)

Data Source:
1 Office of Intramural Research (OIR), 10/1/2017.
2 Human Resources data in NIH nVision, 9/25/2017.
3 nVision contains IPD information only for appointments under Title 42. Thus, nVision Staff Clinician and Staff Scientist numbers do not include those with appointments under Title 5, Title 38 or the PHS Commissioned Corps. For StSc there is a very small number in T5, mostly legacy (<50).
4 For Staff Clinicians, the more accurate number shown on the table is from the Clinical Center for credentialed StCl, which includes all appointment mechanisms (vs the nVision number of 191), with OIR verifications since the credentialed list also includes non-FTEs. The number shown are only FTEs.
5 NIH nVision - Fellowship Payment System, 9/25/2017.
6 Office of Intramural Training and Education (OITE), OIR.


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