NIH EXTRAMURAL LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCHERS Release Date: January 8, 2002 NOTICE: NOT-OD-02-025 National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the availability of educational loan repayment under the NIH Extramural Pediatric Research Loan Repayment Program (PR-LRP). The PR-LRP provides for the repayment of the educational loan debt of qualified health professionals who agree to conduct pediatric research. The Program provides for the repayment of up to $35,000 of the principal and interest of the educational loans of extramural grantees or awardees for each year of obligated service. Also, NIH covers the Federal taxes on the loan repayment, which are considered taxable income to program participants. The purpose of the Program is the recruitment and retention of highly qualified health professionals as pediatric researchers. Through this notice, the NIH invites qualified health professionals who contractually agree to engage in pediatric research as extramural grantees or awardees for at least two years, to apply for participation in the NIH Pediatric Research Loan Repayment Program. ELIGIBILITY. Specific eligibility criteria for the Pediatric Research LRP include the following: o Participants must be United States citizens, nationals, or permanent residents; o Participants must have a M.D., Ph.D., Pharm.D., D.O., D.D.S., D.M.D., D.P.M., D.C., N.D., or equivalent degree; o Participants must be affiliated with the NIH in one of the following ways: a) a recipient of postdoctoral National Research Service Award support on an individual postdoctoral fellowship (F32) or an institutional research training grant (T32). NRSA recipients will only be eligible for loan repayment during the first and third year of NRSA support. The second year of postdoctoral NRSA involves repayment of a service obligation incurred during the first year of NRSA support, which eliminates the possibility of concurrent participation in the loan repayment program. b) a recipient of support under an individual or institutional research development award including the following mechanisms: K01, the Mentored Research Scientist Development Award, K07, the Academic Clinical Scientist Development Award, K08, the Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award, K12, Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program Award, K22, the Career Transition Award with an extramural phase, K23, the Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award, or K25, the Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award. c) a first-time recipient of NIH grant support as the principal investigator of an: R01, a research project grant consisting of one research project, R03, a small research grant, R21, an exploratory/developmental grant, U01, a cooperative agreement consisting of one research project. d) a first-time director of subprojects on multicomponent center grants (P series grants, program project grants (P01)), or multicomponent cooperative agreements (U series) or e) a recipient of a minority supplement to one of the qualifying grants or awards above. o Participants must have qualifying educational debt equal to or in excess of 20 percent of their annual income or compensation, as applicable, at their expected date of program eligibility. The expected date of program eligibility is the date the NIH executes a LRP-CR contract. Contracts are not effective retroactive to the award date of the qualifying grant. o Participants must engage in qualified pediatric research. The term pediatric research, according to P.L. 106-310 (Title X, Section 1001), refers to "research that is directly related to diseases, disorders, and other conditions in children." o Individuals with existing service obligations to Federal, State, or other entities will not be considered for the Program unless and until the existing service obligation is discharged or deferred for the length of Program participation. Further, any individual who has a Federal judgment lien against his/her property arising from a Federal debt is barred from receiving Federal funds, until the judgment is paid in full or satisfied. o Applicants will not be excluded from consideration under the Program on the basis of age, race, culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other non-merit factors. o Applicants must have at least two years of funding support remaining on their qualifying grant or award at the time the LRP contract is awarded. Applicants with less than two years of funding support remaining on their qualifying grant or award as of the time the LRP contract is awarded must have a statement from the institution, where they are engaged in research, that provides assurance of support to conduct research for the balance of time required to comprise two years. o Applicants with a pending NIH grant application may be considered if the application will be acted upon no later than the May 2002 or June 2002 meeting of the Institute or Center National Advisory Council. The grant must be funded before the end of the fiscal year (September 30, 2002). INQUIRIES AND APPLICATIONS Information regarding the eligibility requirements and benefits for the program may be obtained via the LRP website http://www.lrp.nih.gov. Applications are collected electronically, and must be submitted via the LRP website http://www.lrp.nih.gov. DEADLINE DATE Completed applications must be received no later than February 28, 2002, 5 PM EST to be considered for funding in FY 2002 (ending September 30, 2002). G. Stephane Philogene, Ph.D. Associate Director for Policy Office of Loan Repayment Office of the Director National Institutes of Health Website: http://www.lrp.nih.gov E-mail: lrp@nih.gov
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