Institutional National Research Service Award (T32)

To enable institutions to make National Research Service Awards to individuals selected by them for predoctoral and postdoctoral research training in specified shortage areas.

Purpose

The purpose of this Kirschstein-NRSA training program is to enable institutions to recruit individuals selected by them for predoctoral and postdoctoral research training in specified shortage areas. The goal of this program is to prepare qualified predoctoral and/or postdoctoral trainees for careers that have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the Nation.

Organization Eligibility

  • Eligibility: U.S. domestic institutions
Carefully read the Eligibility section of the funding opportunity for opportunity-specific organization eligibility requirements.

Project Director/ Principal Investigator (PD/PI) Eligibility

  • PD/PI U.S. Citizenship Requirement: No
  • Career Stage: Established Investigator

Established investigator capable of providing administrative and scientific leadership.

Carefully read the Eligibility section of the funding opportunity for opportunity-specific PD/PI eligibility requirements.

Appointee Eligibility

  • Career Stage: Predoctoral, Postdoctorate/Residency

U.S. citizens or permanent residents enrolled in a research or clinical doctoral or postdoctoral program.

Carefully read the Eligibility section of the funding opportunity for opportunity-specific Appointee eligibility requirements.

Award Information

  • Funding Instrument: Grant
  • Funding Category: Research Training and Career Development
  • Budget Mechanism Code: TI - Training, Institutional

Application and Submission Information

Parent Announcements

T32 Parent Announcements are available.

  • Parent announcements are broad funding opportunities that applicants can use to submit investigator-initiated applications for a range of popular programs. They do not specify any particular area of scientific interest. They simply provide the standard forms and instructions needed to apply.
  • Not all NIH institutes and centers participate on all parent announcements. Check the participating organization in the funding opportunity before applying.

Related Program

The Jointly Sponsored Institutional Predoctoral Training Program in the Neurosciences (JSPTPN), formerly described under PAR-22-265 (expired), supports broad and fundamental research training in the neurosciences. This initiative began in 1997 to provide support during the early years of graduate training, the first and second years, typically before full-time thesis research begins. This opportunity is a program within the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research in conjunction with the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). The primary objective of the JSPTPN is to prepare individuals for careers in neuroscience that have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the nation. The NIH Blueprint will only support programs that fulfil the following criteria:

1) provide broad and fundamental research training in the neurosciences;

2) include a curriculum that provides a strong foundation in experimental design, statistical methodology and quantitative reasoning;

3) include laboratory rotations that allow students to explore different research areas, scientific approaches, and laboratory cultures; and

4) students may only be appointed to this training grant during the first 2 years of their graduate research training.

Applicants for 2025 should apply to the Parent T32 announcement (PA-25-168), indicate that they are applying for the NIH Blueprint JSPTPN in the application cover letter and direct their application to NINDS in the Assignment Request Form. The next application deadline is May 25, 2025. (see NOT-NS-25-020).

Questions should be directed to the Scientific Program Contacts: Ashlee Van’t Veer ([email protected]) and Lauren Ullrich ([email protected]).

FAQs

The Jointly Sponsored Institutional Predoctoral Training Program in the Neurosciences is managed by an NIH-wide steering committee with one member from each of the participating Institutes.

National Institute on Aging (NIA) 
Contact: Laura Major ([email protected])

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) 
Contact: Jennifer Baumgartner ([email protected])

National Eye Institute (NEI) 
Contact: Ed Clayton ( [email protected])

National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) 
Contact: Miri Gitik ([email protected])

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) 
Contact: Zeynep Erim ([email protected])

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) 
Contact: Ralph Nitkin ([email protected])

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (NIDA) 
Contact: Edgardo Falcon-Morales ([email protected])

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) 
Contact: Michele McGuirl ([email protected])

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) 
Contact: Carol Shreffler ([email protected])

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (NIMH) 
Contact: Ashlee Van't Veer (ashlee.van'[email protected])

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) (NINDS) 
Contact: Lauren Ullrich ([email protected])

Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) 
Contact: Dana Schloesser ([email protected])

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) 
Contact: Alberto Rivera-Rentas ([email protected])

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) 
Contact: Jeremy McIntyre ([email protected])

California

University of California Berkley 
Title: Neuroscience Training Program at UC Berkeley
Program Director: Helen Bateup, Ph.D. ([email protected])

University of California San Diego 
Title: Neurosciences Graduate Training Program
Program Director: Brenda Bloodgood, Ph.D. ([email protected])

University of California San Francisco 
Title: Predoctoral Training in Neurobiology
Program Director: Samuel Pleasure, MD/Ph.D. ([email protected])

Stanford University 
Title: Neuroscience Research Training
Program Director: Merritt Maduke, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Colorado

University of Colorado Denver 
Title: Neuroscience Training Grant
Program Director: Nathan Schoppa, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Connecticut

Yale University 
Title: Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Program Director: Charles Greer, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Florida

University of Florida 
Title: Broad-based Research, Analytics and Innovation in Neuroscience (B2RAIN) predoctoral Training Program
Program Director: Jennifer Bizon, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Georgia

Emory University 
Title: Training in System and Integrative Biology Neuroscience
Program Director: Yoland Smith, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Iowa

University of Iowa 
Title: Neuroscience Training Program
Program Director: Daniel Tranel, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Maryland

John Hopkins University 
Title: Training Program in Neuroscience
Program Director: James Knierim, Ph.D. ([email protected])

University of Maryland Baltimore 
Title: Multidisciplinary Training Program in Neuroscience
Program Director: Jessica Mong, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Massachusetts

Harvard University 
Title: PhD Training in Neuroscience
Program Director: John Assad, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Boston University Medical Campus 
Title: Graduate Program for Neuroscience
Program Director: Shelley Russek, Ph.D.  ([email protected])

Michigan

University of Michigan Ann Arbor 
Title: Early Stage Training in Neuroscience
Program Director: Carol Elias, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Minnesota

University of Minnesota 
Title: Predoctoral Training of Neuroscientists
Program Director: David Redish, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Missouri

Washington University 
Title: Neuroscience Training Program at Washington University
Program Director: Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD. ([email protected])

New York

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 
Title: Training Program in Neuroscience
Program Director: George Huntley, Ph.D. ([email protected])

State University of New York at Stony Brook 
Title: Training Program in Neuroscience at Stony Brook University: Fostering Quantitative Literacy and Experimental Rigor
Program Director: Arianna Maffei, Ph.D. ([email protected])

University of Rochester 
Title: Graduate Training in Neuroscience
Program Director: Anna Majewska, Ph.D. ([email protected])

North Carolina

Wake Forest University Health Sciences 
Title: Neuroscience Training at Wake Forest
Program Director: Paul Czoty, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Duke University 
Title: Neurobiology Training Program
Program Director: Richard Mooney, Ph.D. ([email protected])

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
Title: Neuroscience Predoctoral Training at UNC-Chapel Hill
Program Director: Mark Zylka, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Ohio

University of Cincinnati 
Title: Predoctoral Training Program in the Neurosciences
Program Director: James Herman, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Oregon

Oregon Health & Science University 
Title: Multidisciplinary Training in Neuroscience
Program Director: Kelly Monk, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania 
Title: Graduate Training in Neuroscience
Program Director: Minghong Ma, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Rhode Island

Brown University 
Title: Interdisciplinary Predoctoral Neuroscience Training Program in the Neuroscience Graduate Program
Program Director: David Sheinberg, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Texas

Baylor College of Medicine 
Title: Graduate Training in the Neurosciences
Program Director: Mathew Rasband, Ph.D. ([email protected])

University of Texas San Antonio 
Title: Integrated Graduate Training Program in Neuroscience, UTHSCSA
Program Director: David Morilak, Ph.D. ([email protected])

University of Texas at Austin 
Title: Pre-Doctoral Training in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience
Program Director: Amy Lee, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Washington DC

Georgetown University 
Title: Predoctoral Training in Integrative Neuroscience
Program Director: Ludise Malkova, Ph.D. ([email protected])

Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin at Madison 
Title: Neuroscience Training Program
Program Director: Ari Rosenberg, Ph.D. ([email protected])

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Due Dates

The Key Dates section of funding opportunities lists specific due dates. Many opportunities indicate Standard Due Dates apply.

Standard Application Due Dates (when applicable) Review and Award Cycles
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Participating Funding Organizations

Each funding opportunity specifies the participating organizations. Applications must fit within the mission of at least one participating funding organization and meet all opportunity-specific requirements.

The following funding organizations participate on at least one active funding opportunity.

  • Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
  • National Eye Institute (NEI)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
  • National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
  • National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
  • National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  • Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH)

FAQs

Contact

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