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NIH/Alpert Medical School
T32 Research Training Fellowships
Support

 

Fellows receive health benefits, vacation days and sick days. The amount of Fellow stipends is decided by the awarding unit, NIH, and is based on graduate status of the Fellow. The stipend increases with the number of years of relevant post-doctoral experience at the time of the appointment. The annual stipend levels for all individuals receiving support through institutional or individual National Research Service Awards (NRSA) made under Section 487 of the Public Health Service Act are:

2007 Stipends

Post-doctoral with 0 years experience 36,996
Post-doctoral with 1 years experience 38,976
Post-doctoral with 2 years experience 41,796
Post-doctoral with 3 years experience 43,428
Post-doctoral with 4 years experience 45,048
Post-doctoral with 5 years experience 46,992
Post-doctoral with 6 years experience 48,852
Post-doctoral with 7 or more years experience 51,036

Taxability of Stipends

Since the income tax reform bill of 1986, fellowship stipends are taxable.

Period of Appointment

While appointments are necessarily made for one-year periods, it is expected that training periods will ordinarily be for at least two years.
Under various circumstances the Fellow may wish to choose to continue his/her training program for a third year. In such instances the Fellow will submit an application describing his/her progress to-date and plans for what is to be accomplished in the third year of training. The training committee decides on these applications in February of the second year. Often, one or two second year Fellows continue into a third year of training. NIH allows a maximum of three years of training at the post-doctoral level.

Citizenship

A Fellow must be a citizen or a non-citizen national of the United States or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence at the time of appointment. To assure that this will not be a problem, we expect that Fellows already meet eligibility requirements at the time their applications are submitted. A non-citizen national is a person who although not a citizen of the United States, owes permanent allegiance to the U.S. They are generally persons born in lands which are not States, but are under U.S. sovereignty, jurisdiction, or administration, for example American Samoa. An individual lawfully admitted for permanent residence must submit a notarized statement upon activation of the award, indicating possession of the alien registration receipt card (I-151 or I-551). Individuals on temporary or student visas are not eligible for support from the NRSA.

Payback Provisions

Trainees in the first twelve months of postdoctoral NRSA support will incur one month of obligation for each month of support. Trainees in the 13th and subsequent months of NRSA support will incur no further obligation. Furthermore, each month of training in the second year constitutes a month of payback. Consequently, completion of two years of training fulfills the one-year payback requirement and no other service is required. (If a Fellow were to leave at the end of the first year of training he/she would have incurred one year of training payback requirement. This has ordinarily been satisfied by teaching or research activities that add up to a year's subsequent employment).