NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Programs
Repays educational debt for researchers doing qualifying research outside NIH, across 24 participating institutes.
The NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRP) are congressionally established programs that recruit and retain health professionals in biomedical and biobehavioral research careers by repaying up to $50,000 per year of qualified educational debt in return for a commitment to conduct NIH mission-relevant research. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute participates in three of the five extramural LR…
Heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorder biomedical research conducted by extramural health professionals in clinical, pediatric, and health disparities research tracks.
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