Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual NRSA (F31)
Dissertation-stage fellowship covering stipend, tuition and training costs while you finish the doctorate. A Diversity F31 runs in parallel under its own announcement.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (stipend)NRSA stipend plus tuition and an institutional allowance, on the NIH stipend schedule for the award year.
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · Apr, Aug, DecNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Three standard fellowship due dates a year.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate
- Eligibility
- US citizen or permanent resident, enrolled in a research doctoral programme, with a sponsor and a training plan. The training plan is scored as heavily as the science.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- dissertation · training plan · mentorship · diversity supplement
- Apply at
- https://grants.nih.gov/funding/activity-codes/F31
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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