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NIA offers multiple opportunities to support graduate students, up to and including dissertation research. Some of these grants are awarded to individuals, and some are awarded to institutions. Regardless of the funding mechanism, the purpose of these awards is to enhance research experiences in age-related research for students pursuing graduate degrees.
To search for NIA-funded investigators at your institution, use NIH RePORTER and filter results by states.
Individual Support for Graduate Students
| Activity Code | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| F30 | Individual Predoctoral Dual Degree Fellows Award | To enhance the training of promising predoctoral students who are matriculated in a combined M.D./Ph.D. or other dual-doctoral degree training program (e.g., D.O./Ph.D., D.D.S./Ph.D., Au.D./Ph.D., D.V.M./Ph.D.) and intend careers as physician/clinician-scientists. |
| F31 | Individual Predoctoral fellowship | To enable predoctoral students to obtain individualized, mentored research training from faculty sponsors while conducting dissertation research in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. |
| FM-1 | NIH Medical Scientist Partnership Program | For students applying to or in the first year of clinical or dual-degree programs. |
| F99/K00 | Transition to Aging Research for Predoctoral Student s | To support Ph.D. students at the dissertation stage and continuing on through a postdoctoral position. |
| Administrative Supplement | Research Supplements to Promote Re-Entry, Re-integration into, and Re-training in Health-Related Research Careers | To provide full or part-time mentored research training experiences for individuals to re-enter, re-integrate into, or re-train in an active research career after an interruption for family responsibilities or other qualifying circumstances. |
Institutional Support for Graduate Students
| Activity Code | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| R15 | Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) | To support small scale research grants at institutions that do not receive substantial funding from NIH so that health professionals and students at these institutions can receive biomedical research experiences. |
| R25 | INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE (INCLUDE) | To support creative and innovative short courses that train the next generation of Down syndrome researchers in state-of-the-art clinical research skills. NOFO: PAR-22-195 | Expires Sept. 8, 2025 |
| R25 | REDI Entrepreneurship Enhancement Award | To develop entrepreneurial education programs to prepare graduate students and postdocs for a wide range of career paths, including outside the normal research environment. |
| D43 | International Research Training Grants | To support research training programs for US and foreign professionals and students to strengthen global health research and international research collaboration. |
| T32 | Ruth L. Kirtschstein National Research Service Award | To support domestic institutions to enhance predoctoral and postdoctoral research training. |
| AD/ADRD T32 | Institutional Training Programs to Advance Translational Research on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD) Institutional Awards | To support domestic institutions to enhance predoctoral and postdoctoral AD/ADRD translational research training. |
| Predoctoral T32 in Neuroscience | Jointly Sponsored Institutional Predoctoral Training Program (JSPTPN) | To support domestic institutions to provide predoctoral research training in the neurosciences. |
| T35 | Short-Term Training for Health Professional Students | To support domestic institutions to provide individuals with research training during off quarters or summer periods. |