Resources for Trainees and Early Career Investigators Applying for NIH Funding

Grants.nih.gov offers a platform where you can navigate to most of the resources below. But if you know the specific information you are looking for, you may reach it directly via the links below.

Listing of Active Funding Opportunities: 

• NIBIB-supported funding opportunities
• Funding opportunities by career stage: NIH Research Training and Development
• NIH official publication of notices and Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcement (NOFO)
• NIH Director’s Awards:
  • High-Risk, High-Reward Research
  • Pioneer Award
  • New Innovator Award
  • Transformative Research Award
  • Early Independence Award
• Policy supporting the Next Generation Researchers Initiative

Grant Writing Resources:

• Planning your application
• Subscribe to OERs ‘All About Grants’ Podcasts to learn more about the application and award process and insights on grants topics
• OER webinars
• How to apply application guide

 Other NIH Resources:

• Research training and career development FAQ’s
• List of NIH training contacts for extramural and intramural programs (MS WORD - 131KB)
• NIH Office of Extramural Research grants and funding homepage
• Subscribe to OER listservs and RSS feeds
• Access to NIH reports, data and analyses of NIH research activities and awards by location, Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT)
• Definition of Clinical Trials
• NIH OER biomedical research workforce data dashboard
• Center for Scientific Review (CSR) Early Career Reviewer Program

NIH Intramural Research Program Training Opportunities:

• Summer Internship Program, Postbac, and Graduate Opportunities
• Postdoctoral Positions at NIH

NIH Intramural Research Program Career Opportunities:

• Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigators
• Lasker Clinical Research Scholars
• Early Independent Scholars

Podcasts, Videos and Webinars

• Grants Podcasts
• NIH Grants Videos
• NIH Office of Extramural Research Webinars