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    Training at the NHLBI
                                            - Training and Career Development
                                        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 Programprovides 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.
                                                                                                                Funding for Training
                                            - Training and Career Development
                                        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
                                                Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp)
                                                                                            SUPP
                                                                                                                                        DIVERSITY
                                                        **Admin Supp - Clinical Trial Not Allowed (****PA-21-071****)**Provides administrative supplements to currently active NIH research grants to enhance the diversity of the research workforce.
                                                
      Tawanna Meadows, B.S.
				
            meadowst@mail.nih.gov
      
				
            (301) 435-0535
      
				
				
      Division of Cardiovascular Sciences
              Kristen Williams
				
            Kristen.williams@nih.gov
      
				
            (301) 827-5513
      
				
				
      Division of Extramural Research Activities
    Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual Predoctoral NRSA for MD/PhD and other Dual Degree Fellowships
                                                                                            F30
                                                        **PA-21-049**Enhances the integrated research and clinical training of promising predoctoral students, who are matriculated in a combined MD/PhD who intend careers as physician-scientists.
                                                
      Paula Einhorn, M.D., M.S.
				
            paula.einhorn@nih.gov
      
				
            301-435-0563
      
				
				
      Division of Cardiovascular Sciences
              Kimberly Stanton
				
            stantonk@mail.nih.gov
      
				
            301-827-8054
      
				
				
      Division of Extramural Research Activities
    Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Parent F31 - Diversity)
                                                                                            F31
                                                                                                                                        DIVERSITY
                                                        **Parent F31-Diversity (PA-20-251)**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.
                                                
      Marquitta White, M.S., Ph.D.
				
            marquitta.white@nih.gov
      
				
            (301) 827-4822
      
				
				
      Division of Lung Diseases
              Kimberly Stanton
				
            stantonk@mail.nih.gov
      
				
            301-827-8054
      
				
				
      Division of Extramural Research Activities
    Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award
                                                                                            F31
                                                        **Parent F31 (PA-21-051)**Enables promising predoctoral students with potential to develop into a productive, independent research scientists, to obtain mentored research training while conducting dissertation research. The F31 is also used to enhance workforce diversity though a separate program.
                                                
      Marquitta White, M.S., Ph.D.
				
            marquitta.white@nih.gov
      
				
            (301) 827-4822
      
				
				
      Division of Lung Diseases
              Kimberly Stanton
				
            stantonk@mail.nih.gov
      
				
            301-827-8054
      
				
				
      Division of Extramural Research Activities
                                                                                                                                        Institution
                                                NRSA Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grant
                                                                                            T35
                                                        **Parent T35 (PA-23-080)**Supports short-term research training often during the summer for students in health professional schools in focused, often emerging scientific areas.
                                                
      Tawanna Meadows, B.S.
				
            meadowst@mail.nih.gov
      
				
            (301) 435-0535
      
				
				
      Division of Cardiovascular Sciences
              Jasmine Johnson
				
            jasmine.johnson@nih.gov
      
				
            (301) 827-8177
      
				
				
      Division of Extramural Research Activities
    Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award
                                                                                            T32
                                                        **Parent T32 (PA-20-142)**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.
                                                
      Traci Heath Mondoro, Ph.D.
				
            NHLBI_Blood_Training@nhlbi.nih.gov
      
				
            301-435-0050
      
				
				
      Division of Blood Diseases and Resources
              Jasmine Johnson
				
            jasmine.johnson@nih.gov
      
				
            (301) 827-8177
      
				
				
      Division of Extramural Research Activities
    Short-Term Research Education Program to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research
                                                                                            R25
                                                                                                                                        DIVERSITY
                                                        **Clinical Trial Not Allowed (RFA-HL-22-012)**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.
                                                
      Li-Shin Huang, Ph.D.
				
            li-shin.huang@nih.gov
      
				
            301-435-0535
      
				
				
      Division of Cardiovascular Sciences
              Tracee Foster
				
            fosterts@nhlbi.nih.gov
      
				
            301-402-3843
      
				
				
      Division of Extramural Research Activities
    T32 Training Program for Institutions That Promote Diversity
                                                                                            T32
                                                                                                                                        DIVERSITY
                                                        **Diversity T32 (RFA-HL-22-001)**The NHLBI's T32 Training Program for Institutions That Promote Diversity is a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Program intended to support training of predoctoral and health professional students and individuals in postdoctoral training institutions with an institutional mission focused on serving health disparity populations not well represented in scientific research, or institutions that have been identified by federal legislation as having an institutional mission focused on these populations, with the potential to develop meritorious training programs in cardiovascular, pulmonary, and hematologic diseases, and sleep disorders.
                                                
      Traci Heath Mondoro, Ph.D.
				
            NHLBI_Blood_Training@nhlbi.nih.gov
      
				
            301-435-0050
      
				
				
      Division of Blood Diseases and Resources
              Jasmine Johnson
				
            jasmine.johnson@nih.gov
      
				
            (301) 827-8177
      
				
				
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