[Jobs] FW: NIH Loan Repayment Programs - Apply Now for 2011 Awards

[Leora Lawton]

While this isn't quite a job, it may be very relevant for new PhDs on the
job market.

-leora

 

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From: Mike Hout [mailto:mikehout at berkeley.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 8:39 PM
To: Leora Lawton
Subject: Fwd: NIH Loan Repayment Programs - Apply Now for 2011 Awards

 

...for the pop newsletter.  -Mike

 

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From: "LRP Main (NIH/OD)" <LRPmain at MAIL.NIH.GOV>

Date: 1September 2010 6:38:26 AM PDT

To: NIH_LRP at LIST.NIH.GOV

Subject: NIH Loan Repayment Programs - Apply Now for 2011 Awards

Reply-To: "LRP Main (NIH/OD)" <LRPmain at MAIL.NIH.GOV>





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Participants Receive Up to $35,000 Annually to Repay Student Loans

New Application Deadline is November 15, 2010

 

The 2011 application cycle for the National Institutes of Health's Loan
Repayment Programs is now open, and applications can be found online
atwww.lrp.nih.gov <http://www.lrp.nih.gov/> . The LRPs repay the outstanding
student loans of researchers who are or will be conducting nonprofit
biomedical or behavioral research, and opportunities are available in five
research areas - clinical, pediatric, health disparities, contraception and
infertility and clinical research for individuals from disadvantaged
backgrounds. Applications will be accepted until 8:00 p.m. Eastern time on
November 15, 2010.

 

Please share this e-mail with researchers in your organization who may
benefit from this career-enhancing opportunity.

 

BENEFITS: New LRP contracts are awarded for a two-year period and repay up
to $35,000 of qualified educational debt annually. Tax offsets also are
provided as an additional benefit. Participants may apply for competitive
renewals, which are issued for one or two years. Undergraduate, graduate,
medical school, and other health professional school loans qualify for
repayment. An NIH grant or other NIH funding is not required to apply for or
participate in the LRPs. 

 

ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must possess a doctoral-level degree (with the
exception of the contraception and infertility research LRP); be a U.S.
citizen, national or permanent resident; devote 20 hours or more per week to
conducting qualified research funded by a domestic nonprofit, university or
government entity; and have qualified educational loan debt equal to or
exceeding 20 percent of their institutional base salary.

 

AWARDS: Each year, nearly 1,600 research scientists benefit from the more
than $70 million NIH invests in their careers through the extramural LRPs.
Twenty-six percent of awards are made to individuals within one to five
years of receiving their doctoral degree. More than 75 percent of awards go
to individuals within 10 years of receiving their doctoral degree.
Approximately 40 percent of new applications and 70 percent of renewal
applications are funded. 

 

For guidance on the application process and NIH Institute and Center (IC)
research priorities, potential applicants should review "Tips for Completing
a Competitive Application" at
http://www.lrp.nih.gov/pdf/0310_1_application_tips.pdf and contact an IC LRP
liaison. The list of ICs and their liaisons can be found at
http://www.lrp.nih.gov/contact_us/contact_list.aspx

 

QUESTIONS? Visit the LRP website at www.lrp.nih.gov
<http://www.lrp.nih.gov/>  for more information and to access the online
application. For additional assistance, call or e-mail the LRP Information
Center at (866) 849-4047 or lrp at nih.gov. Also, receive application cycle
updates through Twitter @NIH_LRP orwww.twitter.com/NIH_LRP.

 

 

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