Types of NIH grants

Types of programs

• Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards
• F30: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows
• F31: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
• F31: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellows
• F32: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows
• F33: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Senior Fellows
• Descriptions of  career development awards (K awards), the  K Kiosk, and the career award wizard
• K01: Mentored Research Scientist Development Award
• K02: Independent Scientist Award
• K07: Academic Career Award
• K08: Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award
• K22: NIAID Research Scholar Development Award
• K99/R00: NIH  Pathway to Independence (PI) Award for new investigators
• R01: Research Project Grant (NIH's standard competitive grant)
• R03: Small Grant Program (useful for generating preliminary data in preparation of an R01 submission)
• R15: Research grants for faculty in units that have not been major recipients of NIH funding (CVM qualifies in 2010)
• R21: Exploratory/Developmental Research Grants
• T32: National Research Service Awards for Institutional Research Training Grants (T32)
• T35: National Research Service Awards , Short-term Institutional Research Training Grants
• Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)