Deadline: 10-Mar-23
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is offering grants to support Programs for Inclusion and Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE).
Scope
- The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research educational activities that complement other formal training programs in the mission areas of the NIH Institutes and Centers.
- The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research.
- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the NIH, provides global leadership for research, training, and education programs to promote the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood diseases, and sleep disorders and enhance the health of all individuals so that they can live longer and more fulfilling lives. The NHLBI expects efforts to diversify the workforce to lead to the recruitment of researchers from all groups, improve the quality of the educational and training environment, balance and broaden the perspective in setting research priorities, improve the ability to recruit subjects from diverse backgrounds into clinical research protocols, and improve the Nation’s capacity to address and eliminate health disparities.
- The overarching goal of this National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) R25 program is to support mentoring and research education activities that enhance the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research workforce. The major goal of this R25 program is to establish long-term mentoring that will enable junior faculty and transitioning postdoctoral students from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups that are underrepresented in the biomedical sciences, to develop a research program and work with their home institution to obtain NIH funding. This FOA specifically invites applications that would support senior faculty, established researchers, and experienced mentors to develop and direct the Summer Institutes for Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE) in order to mentor promising eligible junior faculty and transitioning postdoctoral students from diverse backgrounds who have specific scientific interests in heart, lung, blood and sleep (HLBS) disorders research.
- To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support educational activities with a primary focus on Research Experiences and Mentoring Activities:
- Research Experiences for participating junior faculty and transitioning postdoctoral students from diverse backgrounds to enhance their research skills, experiences, and knowledge base relative to HLBS scientific areas and cross-cutting methodological approaches. This can include transitioning postdoctoral scientists who have received a formal full-time faculty appointment letter in hand and will have completed their postdoctoral appointment by the time the Summer Institute program to which they are recruited is convened.
- Mentoring Activities by senior faculty, established researchers, and experienced mentors that include dedicated efforts to provide technical expertise, career advice, insight, and professional skills development opportunities to participating junior faculty and transitioning postdoctoral students from diverse backgrounds so that they can work with their institutions to compete for NIH grants successfully.
- Research education programs may complement ongoing research training and education occurring at the applicant institution, but the proposed educational experiences must be distinct from those training and education programs currently receiving Federal support. R25 programs may augment institutional research training programs but cannot be used to replace or circumvent Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) programs.
Purpose
- The primary goal of the Summer Institutes (SIs) of the PRIDE program is to establish long-term mentoring that will enable junior faculty and transitioning postdoctoral students from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups that are underrepresented in the biomedical sciences, to develop a research program and work with their home institutions to obtain NIH funding. Through active involvement in research education and mentorship activities, program participants will further develop their skills and gain experience in advanced methods and experimental approaches in the basic and applied sciences relevant to the NHLBI. Ultimately, the enhanced skills gained from participation in the PRIDE program will contribute to mentees’ career development as faculty members and scientists. SI programs have demonstrated efficacy for furtherance of participants’ research careers.
- This FOA specifically invites applications that would support senior faculty, established researchers, and experienced mentors to develop and direct SIs that will provide opportunities for skills development, research experiences, and mentoring to promising junior faculty and transitioning postdoctoral scientists from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups that are underrepresented in the biomedical sciences, who have received a formal, full-time, faculty appointment letter in hand by the time the SI program to which they are recruited is convened. In this FOA, ‘applicant’ refers to the Principal Investigator(s) of the SI program, and ‘mentees’ refers to the junior faculty/transitioning post-doctoral scientists.
Objectives
- This FOA will support the development, organization, and implementation of NHLBI mission-focused SI programs. The SI programs must be open nationwide to individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups that are identified by the National Institutes of Health as nationally underrepresented in the biomedical research workforce.
- SI applications must describe plans to support enhancement of mentees’ skills through focused research education and mentoring activities in NHLBI mission-relevant areas. It is intended that the SIs will be structured to provide research education activities related to research design, methodologies, skills and strategies important to preparing NIH research grants, as well as to provide mentorship on strategies for success and tips for obtaining external research funding related to HLBS disorders.
- Applications submitted in response to this FOA must propose to develop an NHLBI mission-focused research education and mentoring SI program during the last quarter of 2023 and early part of 2024, and to implement the proposed SI program during the summers of 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 with appropriate modifications or refinements following each of the prior years.
Topic Areas
Examples of relevant topic areas and research approaches include but are not limited to:
- Basic and clinical aspects of the mechanisms of and treatment for HLBS conditions
- Research to mitigate health or health care disparities in HLBS conditions in the United States and abroad
- Health services research focused on treatment optimizing the care for HLBS conditions
- Implementation science research to facilitate adoption of proven-effective interventions to treat and prevent HLBS related diseases
- Intervention research methods, such as adaptive and pragmatic trials, to enhance the efficiency and applicability to populations with HLBS conditions
- Behavioral and social science research targeted at the prevention and treatment of HLBS conditions in areas such as health communication, adherence, behavioral economics, and social and structural determinants of health
- Emerging technology and informatics, such as artificial intelligence/machine learning and integration of wearable technology in research and clinical care of HLBS conditions
- Genomics, “populomics”, and precision health to advance the science of tailored treatment approaches for HLBS conditions
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $317,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants:
- Small businesses
- City or township governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Private institutions of higher education
- Others
- Independent school districts
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- State governments
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Special district governments
- County governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Additional Information on Eligibility:
- Other Eligible Applicants include the following: Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions; Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISISs); Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government; Faith-based or Community-based Organizations; Hispanic-serving Institutions; Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized); Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations); Regional Organizations; Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs) ; U.S. Territory or Possession; Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are not eligible to apply Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply. Foreign components are allowed.
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