Training Modules for Enhancing Biomedical Research Workforce Training Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

These Frequently Asked Questions have been formulated to assist potential applicants in understanding the intent and requirements of PAR-24-040. Additional FAQs may be added as staff receive and respond to additional questions.

The NIH R25 award is a mechanism to support education projects.

These R25 awards are expected to produce, pilot and disseminate one or more exportable training modules. It is expected that the proposed training modules will be made available to the scientific community at no cost through a link posted on the NIGMS Clearinghouse website.

Modules are relatively short units of sufficient depth and coverage to achieve the training objective.

Applicants may request up to $250,000 in direct costs to cover the entire period of the award. Award periods of up to three years may be requested.

Yes. Multi PI teams that contain complementary expertise appropriate for the planned proposal are encouraged.

Instructor-led training would be limited in audience reach and timeliness and thus do not meet the goals of this program. Instructor-led discussion may be used in the development of the modules or to augment the modules as part of a training program. Projects focused on on-site, hands-on training experiences may be better suited for the IPERT funding mechanism.

NIGMS will host the modules when they are first ready to be utilized, which includes being 508 compliant. Grantees wishing to maintain, update and host their own modules are free to do so as long as they remain readily accessible to the research training community and NIGMS can link directly to them from its Web site. NIGMS will provide continued access to the modules when grantees do not wish to or are unable to host them beyond the period of support.

Topics areas for the 2025 receipt date can be found in the NOSI NOT-GM-24-039.

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