Intramural AIDS Research Fellowship Program

The Intramural AIDS Research Fellowship (IARF) program is a collaborative effort of the Office of AIDS Research, the Office of Intramural Training & Education, and the Office of Intramural Research, designed to further cross disciplinary research into HIV and AIDS at the NIH. The aim of the program is to recruit graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from all scientific disciplines to the broad field of AIDS research and to provide a funding opportunity for intramural fellows whose work can be directly related to HIV and AIDS.

The program seeks to promote research within the comprehensive portfolio of basic and clinical AIDS research at the NIH.  This includes work in the following fields: natural history and epidemiology; etiology and pathogenesis; therapeutics research; vaccines; microbicides; and behavioral and social science research to address HIV infection and its associated coinfections, opportunistic infections, malignancies, and other complications.

Graduate students in the NIH Graduate Partnerships Program and postdoctoral trainees in the NIH Intramural Research Program, both U.S. citizens and individuals from abroad, are eligible to apply. (NOTE: Research and Clinical Fellows and others appointed as FTEs are NOT eligible to apply.)  The 11 award recipients for 2012 represent five different Institutes at the NIH and their research covers multiple disciplines. 

The IARF is designed to provide funding to the next generation of AIDS researchers as well as recruiting the attention of established investigators in the intramural program.  Awardees will be individuals who show outstanding scientific potential through both an imaginative and thoughtful research plan and a well thought out career development plan.  For further details on the application process and requirements, please download the 2013 call for applications.  You can also contact Dr. Phil Ryan or Dr. Shauna Clark in the OITE.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The original 2013 call for applications indicated that the career development plan should be one page, double-spaced.  The page limitation has been revised to two pages, double-spaced.