NIH Research Software Engineer (RSE) Award
Funds the salary of a research software engineer building and sharing biomedical, behavioural or health software, tools and algorithms.
Research software is written by people who are usually paid out of somebody else's project grant, and who leave when it ends. This award pays their salary directly.
What it covers is salary support for exceptional research software engineers. Not a project, not equipment — a person's time.
The work in scope is the development and dissemination of biomedical, behavioural or health-related softwar…
Salary support for research software engineers contributing to the development and dissemination of biomedical, behavioural or health-related software, tools and algorithms, and to the training of prospective users of those tools. Clinical trials are not allowed.
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