Who is eligible to apply...
Institutions of higher education, hospitals, and other institutions and organizations, both nonprofit and for-profit, seeking to establish, continue, or enlarge programs consistent with the objectives of the program. Applicants for NRSA must be citizens of the United States or be admitted to the United States for permanent residency. Applicants must be nominated and sponsored by a public or private nonprofit institution with staff and facilities suitable for the proposed research training. Nonprofit domestic organizations may apply for the institutional NRSA. To be eligible, post-doctoral awardees must have a professional or scientific degree (M.D., Ph.D., D.V.M., D.D.S., or equivalent degree). SERCA awardees must have a degree in veterinary medicine (D.V.M. or equivalent) and 3 years of post-doctoral experience in comparative medicine or comparative pathology areas. To be eligible for funding, the grant application must be approved for scientific merit and program relevance by a scientific review group and the national advisory council.
Credentials/Documentation
None is required for research grants. Individual NRSA grants require that the applicant's academic record, research experience, citizenship, institutional sponsorship, etc., be documented in the application form supplied by the Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health. Institutional NRSA grants require the institution to show the objectives, methodology and resources for the research training program, the qualifications and experience of directing staff, the criteria to be used in selecting individuals for award, and a detailed budget and justification for the grant funds requested. Costs will be determined in accordance with HHS Regulations 45 CFR, Part 74, Subpart Q, OMB Circular No. A-122, "Cost Principles for Nonprofit Organizations," OMB Circular No. A-21 for Educational Institutions, and OMB Circular No. A-87 for State and local governments. For-profit organizations' costs are determined in accordance with 48 CFR, Subpart 31.2 of the Federal Acquisition Regulations and 45 CFR, Part 92 for nonprofit organizations.
Note:This is a brief description of the credentials or documentation required prior to, or along with, an application for assistance.
About this section:
This section indicates who can apply to the Federal government for assistance and the criteria the potential applicant must satisfy.
For example, individuals may be eligible for research grants, and the criteria to be satisfied may be that they have a professional or scientific degree,
3 years of research experience, and be a citizen of the United States. Universities, medical schools, hospitals, or State and local governments may also be eligible.
Where State governments are eligible, the type of State agency will be indicated (State welfare agency or State agency on aging) and the criteria that they
must satisfy.
Certain federal programs (e.g., the Pell Grant program which provides grants to students) involve intermediate levels of application processing, i.e., applications
are transmitted through colleges or universities that are neither the direct applicant nor the ultimate beneficiary. For these programs,
the criteria that the intermediaries must satisfy are also indicated, along with intermediaries who are not eligible.