U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
National Institutes of Health
Supporting Scientific Discovery
The NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) are a set of programs established by Congress and designed to recruit and retain highly qualified health professionals into biomedical or biobehavioral research careers. The escalating costs of advanced education and training in medicine and clinical specialties are forcing some scientists to abandon their research careers for higher-paying private industry or private practice careers.
The LRPs counteract that financial pressure by repaying up to $35,000 annually of a researcher's qualified educational debt in return for a commitment to engage in NIH mission-relevant research. Since tomorrow's medical breakthroughs will be made by investigators starting in their research careers today, the LRPs represent an important investment by NIH in the future of health discovery and the wellbeing of the Nation.
Application Periods and Documentation Deadlines
Extramural New & Renewal Awards
Online Application Period
Sep 1, 2016 - Dec 1, 2016
Colleague and Institutional Documentation Period
Sep 1, 2016 - Dec 1, 2016
Contract and Certification Documentation Deadline?Such as the Contract, Certification for Online Applications, Citizenship, and Disadvantaged Background
Dec 31, 2016
Intramural New Awards
Online Application Period
Sep 1, 2016 - Apr 3, 2017
Colleague Documentation Period
Sep 1, 2016 - Apr 17, 2017
Contract and Certification Documentation Deadline?Such as the Contract, Certification for Online Applications, Citizenship, and Disadvantaged Background
May 1, 2017
Intramural ACGME New Awards
Online Application Period
Sep 1, 2016 - Jun 15, 2017
Colleague Documentation Period
Sep 1, 2016 - Jun 30, 2017
Contract and Certification Documentation Deadline?Such as the Contract, Certification for Online Applications, Citizenship, and Disadvantaged Background
June 30, 2017
Intramural Renewal Awards
Online Application Period
Sep 1, 2016 - Feb 8, 2017
Colleague Documentation Period
Sep 1, 2016 - Feb 22, 2017
Contract and Certification Documentation Deadline?Such as the Contract, Certification for Online Applications, Citizenship, and Disadvantaged Background
March 1, 2017
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Featured Success Story
Receiving the LRP award was a great confidence booster for me
Tara Chang, M.D.
NephrologistDr. Chang received her B.A. in Biochemical Sciences in 1999 from Harvard University; her M.D. in 2003 from the University of Michigan Medical School; and her M.S. in Epidemiology in 2009 from Stanford University. From 2008-2012, Dr. Chang was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford University Medical Center and served as a Clinical Instructor at the University from 2009-2012.
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Featured Success Story
A young researcher would be crazy not to try for the LRP!
Brett Kissela, M.D., M.S.
NeurologistDr. Kissela received his B.S. in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology in 1991 (with honors) from Marquette University; his M.D. in 1995 from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; and performed his Neurology Residency from 1996 – 1999 at the University of Michigan Medical School, having interned at the Medical College of Wisconsin from 1995 to 1996.
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Featured Success Story
The LRP gave me time to devote to my research career
Kevin Erickson, M.D., M.S.
Nephrology; Polycystic Kidney DiseasesDr. Erickson received his B.A. in Economics in 2000 from Amherst College; his M.D. in 2006 from the University of Pennsylvania; and his M.S. in Health Services Research in 2012 from Stanford University. Dr. Erickson completed his residency and internship programs at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia and a Nephrology Fellowship at Stanford University.
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March 17-19 2017
2017 NIH Regional Seminar – Program Funding and Administration
New Orleans, LA
May 3-5 2017
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After losing one child to Neimann-Pick Disease Type C, the Marella family is hopeful that new experimental treatments at the NIH will allow their son Andrew, and several other children with the same disease, to have a better quaity of life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LGefTTpYQ0&feature=youtu.be
Thomas Reese (NIH/MBL): Visualizing Synaptic Signaling
How neurons work on a molecular level is the research focus of Dr. Thomas Reese’s NINDS Section on Structural Cell Biology. He talks about his four decades of neuroscience research at http://bit.ly/1t8Ep4t
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