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Opportunity Summary:

The NIDA Research Education Program for Clinical Researchers and Clinicians (R25), Funding Opportunity Number PAR-10-173, is a discretionary NIH grant program from the National Institute on Drug Abuse designed to build and strengthen research education and research training for people pursuing clinically focused careers. The central aim is to develop the research skills, knowledge, and experience of participants who are on paths to become clinical researchers, practicing clinicians and service providers, or, ideally, professionals who can bridge both roles by combining research and clinical work. A key limitation is that this R25 mechanism is not intended to pay for purely clinical, non-research training; proposed activities must be explicitly research education and research training rather than general clinical instruction or service delivery preparation.

Applicant organizations are expected to propose structured research education experiences for specific career stages only. Under this opportunity, NIDA limits eligible participant levels to medical or graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, medical residents, and independent scientists. In other words, the program is meant to support research education spanning early professional development through more advanced, independent career phases, but it is not a catch-all training vehicle for every possible level or type of learner. The design should align clearly with one or more of those allowed stages and show how the curriculum, mentorship, and research exposure will move participants toward clinically oriented research careers.

In terms of content, the program is broadly open to research education and training activities in any topic area related to substance use, substance abuse, and addiction. NIDA highlights several areas as especially relevant: etiology (how substance use disorders develop and what drives risk and resilience), clinical assessment and diagnostics, treatment and intervention development, prevention research, health services research (including how care is delivered and improved in real-world settings), clinical neuroscience, medical consequences of drug abuse, and preclinical research when it is clearly connected to translational goals (for example, preclinical work that informs clinical approaches or accelerates movement from bench findings to patient care). The opportunity also encourages interdisciplinary approaches, including training that addresses comorbid conditions and downstream consequences of drug use, with HIV/AIDS named as a specific example. Programs that bring together multiple disciplines, perspectives, or methods to address complex substance-related health problems are consistent with the intent of the announcement.

Collaboration is another emphasized feature. NIDA encourages education partnerships and broader collaborations, which can include cross-departmental efforts within an institution, partnerships between institutions, or relationships with clinical sites and community-based settings when those partnerships meaningfully enhance research education. The overarching expectation is that the proposed environment and relationships will expand the quality, reach, and practical relevance of the research education experience, especially for clinically grounded participants.

The funding mechanism is the NIH Research Education (R25) grant. Awards under this mechanism support the design and implementation of research education programs rather than individual research projects, and they are institution-based in the sense that the education program is tied to the applicant organization. The announcement notes that research education programs funded through this mechanism generally may not be transferred from one institution to another unless there is a strong justification, signaling that the program is expected to be stable, institutionally anchored, and supported by the applicant organization’s training and research infrastructure.

Budget size, award duration, and the anticipated number of awards are not fixed in the summary information provided because NIDA expects applications to vary widely in scope and structure. As a result, both the amount of funding and the number of awards depend on the volume of applications received and, importantly, their quality, duration, and proposed costs. The opportunity does not require cost sharing or matching.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of organizations, spanning public and private institutions of higher education, state and local governmental entities, tribal governments and tribal organizations, nonprofit organizations (including both 501(c)(3) and certain non-501(c)(3) nonprofits), for-profit organizations other than small businesses, small businesses, independent school districts, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, and a range of mission-focused institutions and communities such as HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions, tribally controlled colleges and universities, faith-based or community-based organizations, eligible federal agencies, and U.S. territories or possessions. The program falls under CFDA 93.279 (Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs) and is categorized under Education/Health.

Administratively, the opportunity was posted on April 20, 2010, with an original and current closing date of September 7, 2012, and an archive date of October 8, 2012, indicating it is no longer active as a current competition under that specific posting. The full announcement and official details were made available through the NIH grants guide (PAR-10-173), and NIH provided a general contact route via the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) webmaster for access or linking issues.

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