Mentors
Selecting a mentor is one of the most important tasks a new graduate student must complete. For a discussion of issues to consider, please read Thoughts on Choosing a Research Mentor. For practical help in identifying mentors, read on.
The NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP) is comprised of ~1200 tenured and tenure track investigators, many Investigators expressing an interest to train future scientists. A complete list of the NIH investigators and their research interests may be found by searching the NIH Intramural Annual Reports (NIDB Resources).
In addition to the NIH Intramural Annual Reports, the following series of links provide additional options to find investigators with similar research interests.
NIH Institute-Center WebPages of the Intramural Research Program (IRP)
- NCI - National Cancer Institute
- NEI - National Eye Institute
- NHLBI - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- NHGRI - National Human Genome Research Institute
- NIA - National Institute on Aging
- NIAAA - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
- NIAID - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- NIAMS - National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
- NICHD - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- NIDA - National Institute on Drug Abuse
- NIDCD - National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
- NIDCR - National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
- NIDDK - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- NIEHS - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- NIMH - National Institute of Mental Health
- NINDS - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- NINR - National Institute of Nursing Research
- NLM/NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information / National Library of Medicine
