International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA)
Funds a U.S. postdoctoral researcher or junior faculty member's salary and mentored research at a site in a low- or middle-income country.
Some research questions can only be studied where the disease, the population or the health system actually is, and a promising early-career U.S. researcher rarely gets the backing to go there long enough to matter. This notice funds that time.
What it supports is salary and research support for an advanced U.S. postdoctoral researcher or junior faculty member, for intensive mentored research and…
Salary and mentored-research support for an advanced U.S. postdoctoral researcher or junior faculty member to do biomedical, behavioral or clinical research at a site in a low- or middle-income country, under joint senior U.S. and host-country mentorship, building toward an independent NIH research career.
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