Graduate and Doctoral Students
Training and career development opportunities at the NHLBI in Bethesda, Maryland cover a broad spectrum of disciplines for individuals at career stages ranging from high school students, graduate students, scientists, clinicians, and healthcare professionals. Click on the program names below for detailed descriptions and information on how to apply.
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Graduate Training at the NHLBI
Brings PhD graduate students to the NIH Intramural Research Program for dissertation research. Participants enjoy the academic environment of a university, the extensive research resources of the NIH, and the breadth and depth of the research programs of both the host university and the NIH.
MD/PhD Partnership Training Program
Encourages the success and development of students pursuing a future as physician-scientists in basic and translational biomedical research. The program fosters innovative and interdisciplinary PhD partnerships in an accelerated setting with a completion time of approximately four years.
Summer Internship Program (SIP)
The Summer Internship Program provides high school, college, medical and graduate students the opportunity to conduct intramural research in NIH laboratories in Bethesda, Maryland and Framingham, Massachusetts. Summer interns spend six - eight weeks working in basic and clinical research areas under the mentorship of an NHLBI principal investigator. Students also participate in an array of professional development events and have mentorship opportunities.
The NHLBI supports fellowships, research career development awards, and training/education research for those pursuing biomedical or behavioral research careers in cardiovascular, pulmonary, or hematologic health and disease, sleep disorders, or transfusion medicine, at universities and institutions across the country. Click on the program names below for detailed descriptions and information on how to apply.
Individual
F30 – Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Predoctoral NRSA for MD/PhD and other Dual Degree Fellowships
Enhances the integrated research and clinical training of promising predoctoral students, who are matriculated in a combined MD/PhD or other dual-doctoral degree training program who intend careers as clinician-scientists. The F30 program is specifically designed to support combined, dual-degree training leading to award of both a health professional doctoral degree (e.g., MD, DO, DDS, AuD, DVM, PharmD) and a research doctoral degree (e.g., PhD, DrPH) from an accredited program.
For Scientific Program, Grants Management, and Eligibility Inquiries, Contact:
NHLBI_F30@nhlbi.nih.gov
F31 - Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award
- Parent F31 (PA-25-422)
Enables promising predoctoral students with potential to develop into productive, independent research scientists, to obtain mentored research training while conducting dissertation research.
For Scientific Program, Grants Management, and Eligibility Inquiries, Contact:
NHLBI_F31@nhlbi.nih.gov
Research Supplements to Promote Re-Entry, Re-Integration into, and Re-training in Health-Related Research Careers (Admin Supp) (NOSI)
- Admin Supp - Clinical Trial Not Allowed (NOT-OD-23-170)
Provides administrative supplements to currently active NIH research grants to support individuals with high potential to re-enter, re-integrate into, or re-train in an active research career after an interruption for family responsibilities or other qualifying circumstances.
Institution
T32 - Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award
- Parent T32 (PA-25-168)
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.
Read the Supplemental Guidelines for the Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award.
For Scientific Program, Grants Management, and Eligibility Inquiries, Contact:
NHLBI_T32@nhlbi.nih.gov
T35 - NRSA Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grant
- Parent T35 (PA-25-280)
Supports short-term research training, often during the summer, for students in health professional schools in focused, often emerging scientific areas.
For Scientific Program, Grants Management, and Eligibility Inquiries, Contact:
NHLBI_T35@nhlbi.nih.gov