Baylor College of Medicine has a long history of securing federal research funds from the federal, state and local resources. In fact, in 2020 Baylor received $507 million in total funding from sponsored project awards. These sponsored awards include institutional training or other training related grants, fellowships, and/or career development grants which help to provide direct support for trainee stipends, tuition and other training related expenses for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and early career investigators in coordinated training programs.
To further aid in Baylor's mission to improve health through science, scholarship and innovation, the Graduate School of Biomedical Science’s Office of Training Grants and Fellowships (OTGF) was established to help further maintain a strong internal resource for training related grant applications.
The OTGF can assist you with the following:
- Training related data management and outcomes tracking
- GSBS Instruction to Responsible Conduct of Research
- GSBS Budget Templates
- Providing GSBS student time-to-degree information
- Sharing of best practices and communications for training-related grants
- Providing funding opportunities for training faculty, GSBS postdocs and GSBS students
- Institutional Letter of Support for Harassment and Discrimination Protections in NIH Training Applications (NOT-OD-19-056)
If you are a faculty member desiring to apply for a new training grant, competing renewal and/or have a training grant RPPR due we encourage you to contact our office in advance (preferably 60‐90 days prior to the deadline) to allow sufficient time to prepare data tables.
Updates to NIH Institutional Training Grant Applications (On or after Jan 2025)
The NIH link here details the updates being made to NIH institutional training grant applications for due dates on or after January 25, 2025. The slide deck here provides a summary of the changes: Drop-in-slides-Training-Grant-Application-Updates.pptx
The updates to NIH Institutional Training Grant Applications include three key changes:
- The Recruitment Plan to Enhance Diversity will be its own attachment in the PHS 398 Research Training Program Plan Form.
- Mentor training expectations will be more clearly defined in the parent T32 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).
- Institutional Training data tables will be updated to reduce burden and promote consistent information collection across training programs.
NIH has made significant investments to develop, implement, assess and disseminate innovative, effective approaches to research training and mentoring and to prepare trainees for a variety of career paths in the biomedical research workforce. Additionally, NIH established the UNITE initiative to identify structural barriers and promote equity in the NIH-supported biomedical research ecosystem. Through these initiatives, the research community has identified the need for:
- Broader outreach activities to foster awareness of research training opportunities for potential trainees from all backgrounds, including individuals from underrepresented groups,
- Targeted recruitment activities to diversify training program applicant pools, and
- Increased mentorship opportunities to facilitate trainee success (see Re-envisioning NIH Supported Postdoctoral Training; UNITE Listening Sessions)
NIH will leverage the lessons of these initiatives to enhance institutional research training programs, including by enhancing opportunities to strengthen mentor training.
Institutional Resources
- Tuition and Fees
- Responsible Conduct of Research (Baylor login required)
- Institutional Resources
- Fellowship Resources
NIH Guidelines and Notices
Training Grant PD/PI or Other Key Personnel
In circumstances in which a Baylor faculty member is subject to administrative or disciplinary action that significantly impacts their ability to fulfill their obligations as a program director or principal investigator or other key personnel on a federally funding training grant [e.g. National Institutes of Health, institutional training grants: T15, T32, T34, T35, T36, T37, T90/R90, TL1, TL4], the faculty member and/or their supervisor must immediately notify the dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, who will assess the impact of the action on the training environment, and coordinate with the College's NIH Signing Official, to develop a formal request for NIH prior approval