Find the Right Training Grant for U
The University of Utah Health is proud to offer a wealth of institutional training grants that provide valuable research training and professional development for graduate students and postdoctoral trainees in a wide range of disciplines. If you are interested in a particular training program you can contact the Principle Investigator of that program, or contact BREO.
Eligibility & Expectations
Eligibility
Trainees must be citizens, noncitizen nationals, or permanent residents of the United States at the time of appointment.
Predoctoral trainees must be enrolled in a program leading to a PhD or in an equivalent research doctoral degree program. Postdoctoral trainees must have received, as of the beginning date of the NRSA appointment, a PhD, MD, DDS, or comparable doctoral degree from an accredited domestic or foreign institution.
Expectations
All trainees are required to pursue their research training full-time, normally defined as 40 hours per week, or as specified by the sponsoring institution policies. Appointments require a two-year commitment to research training.
Institutional Training Grants for Pre- and Post-Doctoral Trainees
Biomedical Informatics Training Grant
PI: Karen Eilbeck
Focus Areas: Health Care/Clinical Informatics, Clinical Research Informatics, Public Health Informatics, Translational Bioinformatics
Accepts: Predoctoral and Postdoctoral
Applications Due: July (annually)
Cancer Genetics, Epigenetics, Models, & Signaling (GEMS T32) Training Program
PIs: Don Ayer, Sheri Holmen, Sean Tavtigian
Focus Areas: Cancer-related - genetics, epigenetics, modeling, and signaling
Accepts: Predoctoral Only
Applications Due: July (annually)
GEMS is a robust two-year predoctoral training program that leverages existing Huntsman Cancer Institute research and infrastructure. The program integrates trainee interactions with cancer patients, cancer clinicians, and our Disease Centers to provide broad multidisciplinary training in cancer biology.
Cardiovasomobility Research Training Program
PIs: Mark Supiano, Walter Wray
Focus Area: Mobility and cardiovascular health research.
Accepts: Predoctoral and Postdoctoral
Applications Due: July (annually)
Cross-Disciplinary Training in Immunology, Inflammation, and Infectious Disease
PI: Brian Evavold, Matthew Williams
Focus Area: Infectious, autoimmune, inflammatory, and immunodeficiency diseases
Accepts: Predoctoral Only
Applications Due: July (annually)
Developmental Biology Training Program
PI: : H. Joseph Yost, Kristen Kwan
Focus Areas: Developmental Biology, Genetics, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology
Accepts: Predoctoral & Postdoctoral trainees
Applications Due: April (annually)
Genetics Training Program
PI: Gillian Stanfield, David Grunwald, Kent Golic
Focus Are: Genetics research
Accepts: Predoctoral Only
Applications Due: July (annually)
Initiative for Maximizing Student Development
PIs: H. Joseph Yost, Kristen Kwan
Focus Areas: Diversity in STEM, Biomedical science
Accepts: Predoctoral Only
Applications Due: by Invitation Only
Interdisciplinary Training in Cancer, Aging & End-of-Life Care
PI: Lee Ellington, Andrea Wallace
Focus Areas: Cancer, Care-giving, End-of-Life Care
Accepts: Predoctoral and Postdoctoral
Applications Due: May (annually)
Interdisciplinary Training in Computational Approaches to Diabetes & Metabolism Research
PI: Karen Eilbeck, Marcus Pezzolesi
Focus Area: Computational biology, Mathematical biology, Metabolic disease.
Accepts: Predoctoral and Postdoctoral
Applications Due: July (annually)
Interdisciplinary Training Program in Metabolism
PI: Scott Summers
Focus Areas: Mitochondria, Lipid metabolism, Adipose biology, Diabetes
Accepts: Predoctoral and Postdoctoral
Applications Due: July (annually)
Multidisciplinary Pulmonary and Critical Care Research Training Program
PI: Robert Paine
Focus Area: Pulmonary and critical care medicine
Accepts: Postdoctoral Only
Applications Due: July (annually)
Program for Interdisciplinary Training in Chemical Biology
PI: Michael Kay
Focus Areas: Chemical biology, Drug discovery
Sponsor/Institute: Predoctoral Only
Applications Due: July (annually)
Spheres of Translation Across the Research Spectrum (STARS)
PI: Angie Fagerlin, Keke Fairfax
Focus Area: Translational science, Biomedical science, Implementation
Accepts: Predoctoral and Postdoctoral
Applications due: July (annually)
Neuroimmunology Training Program
PIs: Ryan O'Connell, Karen Wilcox
Focus Areas: Neuroimmunology, Neurobiology of Disease, Glia Biology
Accepts: Predoctoral Only
Applications Due: July (annually)
Cardiovascular Research
PIs: Stavros Drakos, Robin Shaw
Focus Area: Pathophysiology and treatment of cardiovascular disease
Accepts: Postdoctoral Only
Applications Due: July (annually)
Training in Development of Interventions for the Treatment of Neurological & Neurobehavioral Disorders
PI: Kristen Keefe
Focus Areas: Translational science, Neuroscience, Neurology, Device and Drug development
Accepts: Predoctoral and Postdoctoral
Applications Due: July (annually)
Training Program in Genomic Medicine
PI: Lynn Jorde
Focus Areas: Human genetics, Bioinformatics, Epidemiology, Molecular diagnostics, Pharmacogenomics
Accepts: Postdoctoral Only
Applications Due: July (annually)
Training Program in Microbial Pathogenesis
PI: Matthew Mulvey, Vicente Planelles
Focus Areas: Microbiology, Immunology, Infectious diseases, Host defense.
Accepts: Predoctoral and Postdoctoral
Applications Due: July (annually)
Vision Research Training Grant
PI: David Krizaj
Focus Areas: Vision science, Connectomics, Visual behavior, Translational science
Accepts: Predoctoral and Postdoctoral
Applications Due: July (annually)
Medical Student Training Grants (T35)
These grants provide medical students with superlative research experience and specialty training led by top scientists.
Short-Term Training: Students in Health Professional Schools
PIs: Martin Tristani-Firouzi (martin.tristani@utah.edu), Matt Rondina
Medical students work with established mentors on heart, lung, and/or blood research generating results in basic or clinical research that are presented at local and national meetings and published in peer-reviewed journals, preparing them for futures in academic medicine.
Sponsor/Institute: NIH-NHLBI
Medical Student Research Program in Eye Health and Disease
PI: ME Hartnett (me.hartnett@hsc.utah.edu)
Sponsor/Institute: NIH-NEI
Medical Student Research Program in Metabolism, Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases
PIs: Srini Beddhu (srinivasan.bedduh@hsc.utah.edu), June Round
This program nurtures and builds the physician-scientist workforce of tomorrow through mentored summer research experiences and an innovative course on creative and critical thinking in the research fields of metabolism, diabetes, digestion, hematologic, or kidney disease.
Sponsor/Institute: NIH-NIDDK
Career Development Training Grants for Residents and Junior Faculty
U of U Health offers growth opportunities throughout a researcher's career. These career development grants prepare outstanding residents for a career in academic medicine and clinical investigation and to provide research experience and mentorship to junior faculty.
Utah Stimulating Access to Research in Residency Transition Scholar (StARR)
PIs: Kola Okuyemi (kola.okuyemi@hsc.utah.edu), Molly Conroy
The goal of StARR is to transition resident investigators to successful careers as physician researchers to conduct clinical, translational, and health services research. Trainees will be provided didactic coursework in research methods, leadership training and career development, and extensive mentoring throughout the program.
Sponsor/Institute: NIH-NHLBI
Pediatric Critical Care and Trauma Scientist Development Program
PIs: Heather Keenan (heather.keenan@hsc.utah.edu)
The goal of the PCCTSDP is to increase the number of diverse, well-trained, successfully funded physician-scientists in pediatric critical care and trauma surgery who are capable of sustaining careers in basic, clinical, translational and health services research that advance the understanding and care of critically ill and injured children and their families.
Sponsor/Institute: NICHD
Utah Women's Reproductive Health Research Career Development Program
PI: Robert Silver (bob.silver@hsc.utah.edu)
The Utah WRHR Program will continue to prepare clinical and translational research scholars to lead research programs that will improve women's health across the life course.
Sponsor/Institute: NICHD
Institutional Career Development Core
PI: Maureen Murtaugh (maureen.murtaugh@hsc.utah.edu)
The CTSI KL2 Program rationale has been to distinguish itself by providing promising junior faculty researchers with multidimensional mentored research experiences that enable them to develop, demonstrate, and disseminate translational science to advance health.
Sponsor/Institute: NCATS
Individual Fellowships
A number of national organizations offer fellowships to trainees at specific stages in their career, or who fall in certain categories, or perform research in target areas. Browse the lists below to find a fellowship that is right for you.