NIGMS TWD Funding Opportunities
TWD Programs
PA-23-189; Shakira Nelson; Jeremy McIntyre; Joyce Stamm
This program employs the research project grant as the platform for intensive mentored research experiences within the scope of the grant during the continuum from high school to the postdoctoral level and investigators developing independent research careers. The goal is to increase the nation's pool of students from underrepresented groups by preparing them to continue their training and career advancement in biomedical research.
PAR-20-239; PAR-20-244; PAR-20-153; Tony Beck
SEPA supports educational activities, including interactive digital media resources, which complement or enhance workforce training to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs. SEPA promotes interactive partnerships between biomedical and clinical researchers and pre-kindergarten to grade 12 (P-12) pre-service and in-service teachers, schools, and other interested organizations. The program provides opportunities for students from underserved communities to consider careers in basic or clinical research; provides teachers with professional development in science content and teaching skills; and improves community health literacy through SEPA-funded science centers and museum exhibits on health and medicine.
PAR-22-125; Shakira Nelson; Laurie Stepanek
The goal of the program is to provide structured activities to prepare a diverse cohort of community college students to transfer to and complete a bachelor's degree in biomedical research fields. The program supports institutions that develop and implement effective, evidence-informed approaches to biomedical training and mentoring. This program requires partnerships between two-year post-secondary educational institutions granting the associate degree with four-year colleges or universities that offer the baccalaureate degree.
RFA-RM-13-016; Lameese Akacem; Marie Harton; Kalynda Gonzales Stokes; Laurie Stepanek; Consortium contact: Alison Gammie
BUILD awards are designed to implement and study innovative approaches to engaging and retaining students from diverse backgrounds in biomedical research, potentially helping them on the pathway to become future contributors to the NIH-funded research enterprise. BUILD awards differ from other NIH-funded training grants in that they aim to achieve simultaneous impact at the student, faculty, and institutional levels.
RFA-RM-18-002; RFA-RM-18-003; RFA-RM-18-004; Michael Sesma; Mercedes Rubio; Consortium contact: Alison Gammie
The National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) resource center provides mentoring and networking opportunities for biomedical researchers from diverse backgrounds, including those from underrepresented groups, from the undergraduate level through early career faculty. The NRMN coordination center brings together the NRMN awardees, including the resource center and the research on mentoring, networking and navigating critical transition points.
PAR-21-147; Lameese Akacem; Kalynda Gonzales Stokes
The goal of the program is to develop a diverse pool of undergraduates who complete their baccalaureate degree, and transition into and complete biomedical, research-focused higher degree programs (e.g., Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D.). MARC is an undergraduate student training program for institutions with research-intensive environments. Eligible institutions must have a 3-year average of NIH research project grant funding greater than or equal to $7.5 million in total costs per year.
PAR-24-236; Kalynda Gonzales Stokes
The purpose of the Tribal Undergraduate to Graduate Research Training and Leadership Experiences (TURTLE) program is to fund federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Tribes, Tribal Colleges or Universities, Tribal health programs, or Tribal organizations (collectively termed, eligible Tribal Entities) to develop a pool of scientists to conduct research on AI/AN health and health disparities. The overall goal is to support the development of individuals who have the technical, operational, and professional skills required to conduct AI/AN health research in a culturally appropriate, ethically responsible and rigorous manner, to complete their degrees in a biomedical field, and to transition into careers in the biomedical research workforce.
PAR-21-146; Marie Harton; Joyce Stamm
The goal of the program is to develop a diverse pool of undergraduates who complete their baccalaureate degree, and transition into and complete biomedical, research-focused higher degree programs (e.g., Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D.). U-RISE is an undergraduate student training program for institutions with research-active environments. Eligible institutions must have a 3-year average of NIH research project grant funding less than $7.5 million in total costs per year.