This FOA invites applications to develop and conduct short-term research education programs to improve the knowledge and research skills of biomedical and behavioral scientists conducting research in areas relevant to the mission of NICHD, including reproductive, developmental, behavioral, social, and rehabilitative processes that contribute to the health and well-being of newborns, infants, children, adults, families, and populations.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/25/2025
Size of the Grant: $150,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.
To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on:
- Courses for Skills Development
- Research Experiences
Areas of particular interest include:
- Training in specialized research techniques, research methodology, data sets, or statistical approaches.
- Training in advanced approaches to clinical, translational, or basic research, for instance, training in design and implementation of clinical trials or complex data collection projects.
- Training in the use of model organisms or systems.
- Short-term courses to expose upper undergraduates in the scientific areas that are within the scientific scope of the NICHD.
- Courses in computational analysis of genomic data to identify genomic variants associated with structural birth defects.
- Training in gene editing techniques for producing organisms modeling structural birth defects or studying genes involved with embryonic development.
- Training in approaches toward analyzing and modeling developmental gene regulatory networks.
- Training in the collection of phenotypic and clinical data using controlled vocabularies and ontologies for standardized phenotyping of structural birth defects.
- Virtual skills development courses and supporting resources for researchers on best practice topics such as:
- The inclusion and retention of pregnant and lactating persons and/or pediatric patients and their families in clinical research.
- Best practices for increasing the inclusion of under-represented groups in clinical research, focusing on outreach to members of under-represented groups, training of the researchers running the research projects, or both.
- Data management to address issues such as disclosure review, discoverability, multi-site access to restricted-access data, interoperability, and other aspects of ensuring confidentiality while maximizing data sharing and accessibility.
Funding Information
- Application budgets are limited to $150,000 direct costs per year.
- The maximum project period is 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Higher Education Institutions
- Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher Education
- The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
- Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- For-Profit Organizations
- Small Businesses
- For-Profit Organizations (Other than Small Businesses)
- Governments
- Local Governments
- State Governments
- County Governments
- City or Township Governments
- Special District Governments
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Indian/Native American Tribal
- Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
- Federal Governments
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
- U.S. Territory or Possession
- U.S. Territory or Possession
- Other
- Independent School Districts
- Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities
- Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
- Regional Organizations.
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