The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Education Program supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/14/2026
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
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 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will support educational activities with a primary focus on:
- Courses for Skills Development
- Mentoring Activities
- Curriculum or Methods Development
Non-Responsive Applications
Applications with the following characteristics will be considered non-responsive to this NOFO and administratively withdrawn:
- Applications that do not include plans for at least one of the following activities: Courses for Skills Development, Curriculum or Methods Development,or Mentoring Activities.
- Applications with senior/key personnel who have current or previous NIGMS IPERT R25 or R13 support for the proposed activities that do not include the Results from Related NIGMS Support section of the Research Education Program Plan.
- Applications proposing programs aimed at participants in a single organization.
- Applications proposing project-based research experiences as integral to the proposed IPERT program (such as traditional mentored research experiences where the primary purpose is training individuals in the process of research while seeking to discover novel information). IPERT research experiences may be acceptable if they occur within a course where the primary purpose of the research is educational or skills training (for example, to learn the course concepts or methodology/research techniques).
Funding Information
Application budgets should reflect the actual needs of the proposed project and are limited to $500,000 per year in direct costs.
Project Period
The scope of the proposed project should determine the project period. 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:
- Hispanic-serving Institutions
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
- Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)
- Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
- Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs)
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)
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
- 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
Foreign Organizations
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations) are not eligible to apply
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply.
- Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are not allowed.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
