Receive Up to $35,000 Annually –December 1, 2008 Deadline
Dear Colleague:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will repay your outstanding student
loans through its extramural Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) if you are or will
be conducting nonprofit biomedical or behavioral research and meet eligibility
requirements. The application cycle for the extramural LRPs opened September 1
and includes programs for Clinical Research, Pediatric Research, Health Disparities
Research, Contraception and Infertility Research, and Clinical Research for
Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds. Applications will be accepted online
until 8:00 PM on December 1, 2008 at
www.lrp.nih.gov.
Please share this e-mail with researchers in your organization who may
benefit from this career-enhancing opportunity. The December 1 deadline will
approach quickly.
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 (except for
the Contraception and Infertility Research LRP); be a U.S. citizen or permanent
resident; devote 20 hours or more per week to conducting qualified research
funded by a university, nonprofit organization, or federal, state, or local
government entity; and have qualified educational loan debt equal to or exceeding
20 percent of their institutional base salary.
AWARDS: Each year, some 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 after receiving
their doctoral degree. More than 75 percent of awards go to individuals within
10 years after receiving their doctoral degree. Approximately 40 percent of new
applications and 70 percent of renewal applications are funded.
QUESTIONS? Visit the LRP website at
www.lrp.nih.gov for more information
and to access the online application. For additional assistance, call or e-mail
the DLR Information Center at (866) 849-4047 or
lrp@nih.gov.
Sincerely,
Stephen J. Boehlert
Director of Operations
NIH Division of Loan Repayment
