FOA-Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Researchers (LRP-CR); November 22, 2020

 

Notice Number: NOT-OD-20-133

 

Key Dates
Release Date: July 16, 2020
Application Period: Annually from September 1 through November 20, 8:00 p.m. EST

 

Issued by
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

 

Purpose

This Notice replaces NOT-OD-19-116 and provides program-specific information for Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Researchers (LRP-CR). 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. Additional detailed information about each LRP is provided at www.lrp.nih.gov/about_the_programs/index.aspx and www.lrp.nih.gov/apply.

The NIH invites qualified health professionals who contractually agree to engage in NIH mission-relevant research for an average of at least 20 hours each week for at least two years, initially, to apply for an award in the Extramural LRP. The Extramural LRP repays up to $50,000 annually of a researcher's qualified educational debt in return for a commitment to engage in NIH mission-relevant research at a domestic, nonprofit, or government entity. Research funding from NIH is not required to participate in the Extramural LRP. LRP awards are based on an applicant's potential to build and sustain a research career.

Extramural LRP applications are accepted annually from September 1 through November 20, 8:00 p.m. EST. All LRP applications must be submitted electronically using the NIH LRP Website, www.lrp.nih.gov.

No individual may submit more than one LRP application to the NIH in any fiscal year.

LRP-CR Objective

The objective of the LRP-CR is to recruit and retain highly qualified health professionals into biomedical or biobehavioral research careers.

NIH defines Clinical Research as patient-oriented research conducted with human subjects, or research on the causes and consequences of disease in human populations involving material of human origin (such as tissue specimens and cognitive phenomena) for which an investigator or colleague directly interacts with human subjects in an outpatient or inpatient setting to clarify a problem in human physiology, pathophysiology or disease, or epidemiological or behavioral studies, outcomes or health services research, or developing new technologies, therapeutic interventions, or clinical trials.

Link to Full Announcement

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-20-133.html

 

Please note that similar programs are available:

NOT-OD-20-134 - Extramural Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds (LRP-IDB)
NOT-OD-20-135 - Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Contraception and Infertility Research (LRP-CIR)
NOT-OD-20-136 - Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Pediatric Research (LRP-PR)
NOT-OD-20-137 - Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Health Disparities Research (LRP-HDR)