Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD and Other Dual Doctoral Degree Fellows (Parent F30) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD and Other Dual Doctoral Degree Fellows (Parent F30) is an NIH fellowship opportunity designed to support students who are pursuing integrated clinical and research doctorates, such as MD/PhD and other dual-degree paths like DO/PhD, DDS/PhD, or AuD/PhD. The central goal is to help develop the next generation of clinician-scientists who can bridge patient care and biomedical research. NIH is looking for applicants who show strong promise to become productive, independent investigators, including those focused on patient-oriented research, and whose proposed training and research fit within the scientific missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. In practical terms, the program aims to increase the number of researchers who have both rigorous clinical training and deep research skills in basic, translational, or clinical research settings.

This opportunity uses the NIH NRSA F30 mechanism, which is specifically tailored for individuals enrolled in dual doctoral degree programs. Unlike many grants that primarily fund a lab or a department, the F30 is an individual fellowship that follows the trainee and is structured around a defined research and training plan. The application is expected to reflect not only a compelling scientific question, but also a well-constructed training experience that explains how the fellow will gain the technical, conceptual, and professional development needed to transition into a physician-scientist or clinician-scientist career. Because it is a parent announcement, it functions as a broad umbrella opportunity, and the specific NIH Institute that ends up supporting an award will depend on how well the proposed research aligns with that Institute's mission area.

Award sizes and project periods are not fixed across all applicants, because NIH anticipates that research training plans will differ widely in scope, complexity, and cost. As a result, the duration and total funding levels can vary from one fellowship to another. The number of awards is also not pre-set; it depends on the volume of applications received, their overall quality, their requested timelines, and the associated costs, as well as the availability of funds and priorities within the relevant NIH Institutes. Importantly, there is no cost sharing or matching requirement listed for this opportunity, which means applicants are not expected to provide institutional or third-party matching funds as a condition of support.

The announcement is categorized as a discretionary grant and falls under an education and training-focused activity area, with strong ties to health and biomedical research. The listed CFDA programs indicate that the fellowship can be relevant across a wide range of NIH research domains, including environmental health, oral health, deafness and communication disorders, drug abuse and addiction, mental health research training, diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases, neurosciences and neurological disorders, and aging research. This breadth reinforces that the F30 is meant to support dual-degree trainees in many different scientific fields, as long as the research and training plan fits within NIH mission priorities.

Eligibility for submitting organizations is broad and includes public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations (including 501(c)(3) and certain non-501(c)(3) nonprofits), and for-profit organizations other than small businesses, along with other entities as clarified in the full announcement. The opportunity also highlights inclusion of institutions that serve specific populations, such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-serving Institutions, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities, and Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, as well as eligible federal agencies. While institutions submit the application, the fellowship is fundamentally intended to support an individual trainee within an eligible dual-degree program.

Administratively, this opportunity was issued by the National Institutes of Health and is identified by Funding Opportunity Number PA-10-107. It was posted on February 16, 2010, created on November 5, 2010, and reflects an archived funding announcement with historical closing dates listed (original closing date January 7, 2013; a current closing date shown as January 7, 2011; archive date February 7, 2011). Anyone needing the full official requirements, application instructions, and any Institute-specific nuances is directed to the NIH Grants Guide page for PA-10-107. For technical issues accessing the announcement or linking to it, NIH provides contact support through the NIH Office of Extramural Research webmaster email listed in the notice.

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