Diversity
High School and Undergraduate Students
- Training and Career DevelopmentProvides administrative supplements to currently active NIH research grants to enhance the diversity of the research workforce.
Supports research education activities that: (a) Complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs; (b) Enhance the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research workforce; (c) Help recruit individuals with specific specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to research careers in biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences; or (d) Foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral and clinical research and its implications. View the additional NHLBI-specific funding announcement focused on diversity.
Postbaccalaureate
- Training and Career DevelopmentOffers opportunities for underrepresented post-baccalaureate individuals to receive training in basic, translational, and clinical research. Read about the Helena Mishoe Fellowship for Underrepresented Scientists.
Provides administrative supplements to currently active NIH research grants to enhance the diversity of the research workforce.
Graduate and Doctoral Students
- Training and Career DevelopmentProvides administrative supplements to currently active NIH research grants to enhance the diversity of the research workforce.
Enables 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. View the additional NHLBI-specific funding announcement focused on diversity.
Read the Supplemental Guidelines for the Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award.
Enhances the diversity of the health-related research workforce by supporting the research training of predoctoral students from population groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research workforce. The proposed mentored research training is expected to enhance the individual's potential to develop into a productive, independent research scientist.
Supports research education activities that: (a) Complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs; (b) Enhance the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research workforce; (c) Help recruit individuals with specific specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to research careers in biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences; or (d) Foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral and clinical research and its implications. View the additional NHLBI-specific funding announcement focused on diversity.
Postdoctoral
- Training and Career DevelopmentAll-expense-paid Summer Institute, research education and mentoring initiative sponsored by the NHLBI to address the difficulties experienced by junior investigators and transitioning postdoctoral scientists in establishing independent academic research careers and negotiating through the academic ranks.
Provides administrative supplements to currently active NIH research grants to enhance the diversity of the research workforce.
Provides administrative supplements to currently active NIH research grants to support individuals with high potential to re-enter an active research career after a qualifying interruption for family or other responsibilities.
Enables 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. View the additional NHLBI-specific funding announcement focused on diversity.
Read the Supplemental Guidelines for the Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award.
Early Career
- Training and Career DevelopmentEnhances the pool of highly trained investigators from diverse backgrounds underrepresented in research areas of interest to the NHLBI. Targeted toward individuals whose basic, clinical, and translational research interests are grounded in the advanced methods and experimental approaches needed to solve problems related to cardiovascular, pulmonary, and hematologic diseases and sleep disorders in the general and health disparities populations.
Provides administrative supplements to currently active NIH research grants to enhance the diversity of the research workforce.
Provides administrative supplements to currently active NIH research grants to support individuals with high potential to re-enter an active research career after a qualifying interruption for family or other responsibilities.
Established Investigator
- Training and Career DevelopmentProvides administrative supplements to currently active NIH research grants to enhance the diversity of the research workforce.
Provides administrative supplements to currently active NIH research grants to support individuals with high potential to re-enter an active research career after a qualifying interruption for family or other responsibilities.