Beginning in fiscal year 2025, NIH will provide childcare cost support to individuals supported as full-time recipients of Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00) programs during the F99 phase of the award.
We occasionally look at the breakdown of our supported workforce by educational degree to gain further insights into topics like age at first award, funding inequalities, and demographic diversity. Here we focus on the number of applications and awards by degree type over the past ten fiscal years (FYs) to see how researchers with these varied professional backgrounds are included in our grant portfolio.
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NIH is dedicated to improving the postdoctoral experience to ensure the biomedical research enterprise can retain and attract our nation’s brightest scientific minds and remain globally competitive. Today, we seek your input to help us implement specific Advisory Committee to the NIH Director recommendations to re-envision the postdoctoral experience.
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In recent years, we have supported record high numbers of early stage investigators (ESIs) designated on new (type 1) R01-equivalent awards. Today, we are pleased to share an update on the number of ESIs supported in FY 2023 with the addition of data on age.
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We are pleased to announce updates to Institutional Training Grant applications and required data tables, beginning with submissions due on or after January 25, 2025. The changes are intended to reduce applicant and reviewer burden, and further support the development of a biomedical research workforce that will benefit from the full range of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds needed to advance discovery.
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Thinking about a career in research or wondering how to move forward in your journey to becoming an independent researcher? Whether you’re an undergraduate or graduate student, a postdoc, early stage or an established investigator, there is an NIH funding program out there for you!
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In 2021, we showed that the age at which a researcher is designated on an NIH award for the first time had increased since 1995 and plateaued in the 2010s, and that age differences were most correlated with the terminal degree of the investigator. Today we are sharing an update on these data for FYs 2021-2023, including information related to degree, gender, race, ethnicity, and disability status.
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We are committed to sustaining the vitality of the future biomedical research workforce, including providing appropriate support and addressing the many challenges faced by postdoctoral scholars in biomedicine. As part of this commitment, we are pleased to announce stipend and childcare subsidy increases for the over 17,000 early career scholars supported on NIH Kirschstein National Research Service Awards.
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In this All About Grants podcast episode, we explore ways early career researchers can align and apply their strengths to advance their professional development. Dr. Marguerite Matthews, a program director and co-host of Building Up the Nerve with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and Dr. Ericka Boone, Director of the Division of Biomedical Research Workforce at the NIH Office of Extramural Research, join us in this conversation.
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In this guest blog, Dr. Marie Bernard describes the diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) mentorship funding opportunity and shares valuable resources.
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