RR&D Research Career Scientist Award
Provides a career track and salary support for outstanding non-clinician scientists with sustained research productivity and commitment to VA rehabilitation research relevant to veterans' care.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)The award is described as salary support; no dollar figure is published on the public page. Amounts appear only in the RFA on the VA ORD intranet.
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · May, NovPublished deadline: 2026-11-01 — 79 days awayLetter of intent deadlines are May 1 (summer cycle) and November 1 (winter cycle), emailed as a PDF to rrdreviews@va.gov.
- Who can apply
- Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- For non-clinician scientists working on injuries, disorders and diseases causing long-term impairment in veterans, rehabilitation interventions and devices, or studies with functional outcome endpoints in veteran participants. An approved Letter of Intent is mandatory before a full application can be submitted.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- rehabilitation research · salary support · research career track · functional outcomes
- Apply at
- https://www.research.va.gov/isrm/rrdt/rcs.cfm
- 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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