Mental Health National Research Service Awards for Research Training

Uses and Use Restrictions

Individual fellowships are made to students seeking predoctoral or postdoctoral support for full-time research training or who are enrolled in an established M.D./Ph.D. program. An institutional allowance will be provided to the sponsoring institution for each awardee. In addition, any domestic public or nonprofit institution may apply for an institutional research training grant in a specified area of research from which a number of stipend awards will be made to individuals selected by the training program director at the institution. Support is available for both predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees and will include an amount for institutional expenses. Indirect costs may be requested at 8 percent of total direct costs, exclusive of tuition and related fees and expenditures for equipment, or actual indirect costs, whichever is less. Postdoctoral students receiving fellowships or stipend support under both individual and institutional grants for 12 months or less are obligated to pay back this support through an equivalent period of continued postdoctoral training or a period of health related research and/or teaching activities after the completion of their training. Postdoctoral students in their thirteenth and subsequent months of support will incur no further obligation, and such support will be considered acceptable postdoctoral payback service. Annual FY 06 stipend levels will be $22,772 for predoctoral awards and $35,568 to $51,036 for postdoctoral awards dependent upon the number of years of postdoctoral relevant experience. Research training support may not be used for internships or other clinical training. COR Honors Undergraduate grants are to increase the number of well-prepared students from institutions with substantial minority enrollments and who can compete successfully for entry into Ph.D. level programs. Stipends of $10,956 per year may be requested for each full-time, Junior/Senior level trainee and other related institutional costs may be requested as described in the applicable program announcement.