Training Grants

• Direct New Training Grant PIs to the appropriate NIH Institute & Center (IC) and assist New and Renewal grant PDs with strategic funding approach. Also provide:

  • Institutional data for TABLE 1 - Census of Participating Departments & Interdepartmental Programs.

  • Master TABLE 3 - Federal Institutional Research Training Grants and Related Support Available to Participating Faculty Members.

  • 5 Year Predoctoral student institutional data TABLE 6A - Applicants, Entrants, and Their Characteristics for the Past Five Years.

  • 5 Year available Postdoctoral data TABLE 6B – Applicants, Entrants, and Their Characteristics for the Past Five Years.

  • Templates or data table collection (Check compatibility with the Tables with which you are working).

  • Boilerplates for Diversity Component (Recruitment and Retention plans) and Campus Professional/Personal Development Resources for Trainees.

• Review completed Data Tables for accuracy and consistency.  (To ensure timely assistance, send completed Data Tables at least TWO weeks prior to date of submission or the planned date of submission.)
• Flex funds to be used for evaluation, retreats and professional development activities that cannot be covered by the training grant budget.

To receive above support for T32 training grants, R25, and any other training grant with elaborated tables, email a request including all information below to Finance Director Dessi Pickett (dpickett@uci.edu) and Database Manager Lily Truong (lily.truong@uci.edu), copying Associate Dean Adria Imada (aimada@uci.edu). To ensure a thorough and timely response, minimum lead time of 5 weeks (for Predoctoral ONLY application) and 8 weeks (for Predoctoral/Postdoctoral applications) prior to SPA due date is requested.

• Name of funding agency, Funding Opportunity Announcement with a weblink and title of training grant

• Date due to SPA

• If the grant will include both predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees (needed for Letter of Support)

• Number of predoctoral trainees to be supported and preliminary budget for stipends and tuition/fees for trainees (used for tracking Graduate Division cost share)

• For the predoctoral student data, please provide a list of graduate programs/departments included in the training grant proposal (Use the form here)
• If Graduate Division support is needed for a resubmission, submit a new request to Finance Director Dessi Pickett (dpickett@uci.edu) and Database Manager Lily Truong (lily.truong@uci.edu), copying Associate Dean Adria Imada (aimada@uci.edu).

If the training grant is funded, provide Graduate Division with a copy of the agency award letter (used for tracking Graduate Division cost share) and an annual progress report (same progress report submitted to funding agency). This should be emailed to Finance Director Dessi Pickett (dpickett@uci.edu) and Database Manager Lily Truong (lily.truong@uci.edu), copying Associate Dean Adria Imada (aimada@uci.edu).

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