Welcome to NIGMS

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) supports basic research that increases understanding of biological processes and lays the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.​

Undergraduate Student Training and Workforce Development
Programs that foster research training and the development of a strong and diverse biomedical research workforce through a variety of programs at the undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty levels
Post-Doctoral Student Research Capacity Building
Programs that support research; faculty development; research training and capacity building; and science education
Principal Investigator Research Programs
Funding for principal investigators
Educator Educational Resources
Resources for students and educators intended to strengthen public understanding of science

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Headshots of the employees of NIGMS.  

Contacts by Research Area​

Find contact information for the program officer overseeing grants in your scientific area of interest, desired training program, or capacity building initiative.

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NIGMS Grantees Win 2024 Nobel Prize​​

Long-time grantees Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun awarded Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation, and David Baker awarded Nobel prize in chemistry for computational protein design​.​

Promoting A Broad NIGMS Community

​We at NIGMS believe that a biomedical research workforce richly diverse in perspectives, skills, and experiences best serves the scientific enterprise. We hope that by providing these resources here, you will learn about us, more easily identify funding mechanisms that best fit you and your research or scientific career needs, and find the tools to submit successful grant applications.​



Science for the Public

Strengthening public understanding and appreciation of science is a key NIGMS goal. As part of its efforts, the Institute provides free science education materials on a range of topics.

About NIGMS

Learn more about NIGMS' mission, vision, organizational structure, and leadership.  ​​


Feedback Loop Blog

A catalyst for interaction with the scientific community​​

Principal investigators (PIs) occasionally tell us they don’t plan to apply for the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) ​program because their institutions expect them to have multiple R01 grants and thus they need to stick with R01 funding.​

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Biomedical Beat Blog

Follow the process of discovery

“Curiosity was a central theme in my learning process,” says Sudha Chakrapani, Ph.D., a professor and chair of the department of pharmacology​​ at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. As a high schooler in India, she especially enjoyed her science classes because they fostered her curiosity and allowed her to ask more questions than other subjects did.​​

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This page last updated on 11/6/2024 2:30 PM