 Jessica McKlveen, Ph.D.
June 28, 2024 Do you direct a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutional Training Award or hope to do so in the future? If so, then this blog post is for you! On May 31, 2024, NIH announced upcoming changes to Institutional Training Award grant applications and aspects of the peer review process for applications due on or after January 25, 2025. Notably, these changes differ from the simplified peer review framework changes for most research project grant applications that will take effect in the same timeframe. Institutional Training Awards are an important mechanism at NIH for supporting research training opportunities for trainees at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels, through awards made to support an institutional-run training program rather than individual-level training (e.g., through a fellowship or career development award). The upcoming changes to these awards are informed by experience, lessons learned about mentoring of research trainees, and the NIH UNITE initiative. They are expected to reduce applicant and reviewer burdens and advance the development of a biomedical research workforce that will benefit from the full range of perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds needed to spur discovery. |
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