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NIGMS Support of Career Development (K) Awards

Wednesday, Dec 5, 2012 12:32 PM EST by Alison Cole | 0 Comments

NIH offers a wide variety of career development (K) awards, and NIGMS participates in a number of them. Here are answers to questions we often get about NIGMS support of these awards. Which career development awards (K awards) does NIGMS support? We support: Mentored Clinical Career Development Awards (K08, K23) in clinical research areas funded [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Funding Opportunities, Resources, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/12/05/nigms-support-of-career-development-k-awards/

New Resource for Individual Development Plans

Monday, Sep 10, 2012 3:58 PM EST by Judith Greenberg | 0 Comments

Our Strategic Plan for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Training stresses the importance of creating an individual development plan (IDP) for every graduate student and postdoctoral scholar, not just those supported on formal training grants. The plan’s implementation blueprint addresses this action item, and we’ve since posted more information and links to sample IDPs. The latest [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Director’s Messages, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/09/10/new-resource-for-individual-development-plans/

IDeA Program Infrastructure for Clinical and Translational Research

Thursday, Sep 6, 2012 1:31 PM EST by Rafael Gorospé | 0 Comments

As I discussed in an earlier post, the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program supports the development of infrastructure and capacity to enable investigators in IDeA-eligible states to become more competitive for NIH and other biomedical research funding opportunities. While the program has led to significant progress in the basic sciences, clinical and translational research in [...]

Filed under: Collaborative Research, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/09/06/idea-program-infrastructure-for-clinical-and-translational-research/

Workforce Development and Diversity Recommendations to NIH Resonate with NIGMS Training Strategic Plan

Tuesday, Jun 19, 2012 11:52 AM EST by Judith Greenberg | 2 Comments

Last week, the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) of NIH released two reports that are very relevant to the NIGMS missions of supporting research training and promoting a diverse biomedical workforce. The reports, produced by working groups with impressive membership rosters, have many elements in common with our training strategic plan. For example, the [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages, NIH, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/06/19/workforce-development-and-diversity-recommendations-to-nih-resonate-with-nigms-training-strategic-plan-2/

Apply for New Fellows Program to Reinvent Undergraduate Biology Education

Wednesday, Jun 6, 2012 3:41 PM EST by Shawn Drew Gaillard | 1 Comments

A national effort called PULSE (Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education)  is under way to transform undergraduate biology education at the departmental level. Along with the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, we will select 40 “Vision and Change Leadership Fellows” to devise prototypic solutions that facilitate the systemic changes outlined in Vision [...]

Filed under: Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/06/06/apply-for-new-fellows-program-to-reinvent-undergraduate-biology-education/

Guidance for Implementing NIGMS’ Training Strategic Plan

Friday, May 11, 2012 3:31 PM EST by Judith Greenberg | 1 Comments

Earlier this year, we issued a Blueprint for Implementation of our Strategic Plan for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Training. Since then, we’ve developed guidance to help the academic community implement the plan. This includes several short documents on the topics below: Improvement of Research Training Activities Individual Development Plans Evidence-Based Mentoring Limitation of Training Time [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Director’s Messages, Training/Fellowships, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/05/11/guidance-for-implementing-nigms-training-strategic-plan/

Introducing the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Program

Thursday, May 10, 2012 11:07 AM EST by Rafael Gorospé | 0 Comments

IDeA-Eligible States As Judith Greenberg reported earlier this year, NIH has moved the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program to NIGMS from the now-dissolved National Center for Research Resources. For those who may not be familiar with this program, here’s an overview. Established by Congressional mandate in 1993, the IDeA program’s goal is to broaden the [...]

Filed under: Collaborative Research, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/05/10/introducing-the-institutional-development-award-idea-program-2/

Register Now for First TWD Division Grantee Meeting

Monday, Apr 9, 2012 8:20 AM EST by Shawn Drew Gaillard | 0 Comments

The first meeting of NIGMS Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity (TWD)  grantees will be held on June 12-15, 2012, in San Antonio, Texas. The meeting will provide TWD grantees with the opportunity to meet NIGMS program, review and grants management staff as well as incoming NIGMS Director Chris Kaiser. General sessions planned for this [...]

Filed under: Meetings/Events, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/04/09/register-now-for-first-twd-division-grantee-meeting/

Upcoming NIGMS Training Grant (T32) Application Deadline

Tuesday, Mar 20, 2012 12:24 PM EST by Alison Cole | 0 Comments

The next submission date for NIGMS predoctoral T32 applications is May 25. If you plan on submitting an application, please see my earlier post with reminders about mandatory requirements related to recruitment and retention plans for students with disabilities, training in the responsible conduct of research and NIGMS-specific guidelines. Feel free to contact me with [...]

Filed under: Training/Fellowships, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/03/20/upcoming-nigms-training-grant-t32-application-deadline/

Optimizing the Research Training Partnership

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 12:43 PM EST by Judith Greenberg | 10 Comments

It’s been nearly a year since we posted our Strategic Plan for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Training. In August, I announced that we were on course to implement most of the plan in early 2012. I’m very pleased to tell you that our Blueprint for Implementation is now available. As you’ll see, it’s truly a [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Director’s Messages, Training/Fellowships, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/02/13/optimizing-the-research-training-partnership/

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