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NCI Special Notes
NCI accepts T32 applications that are designed to prepare individuals for
careers in cancer research in the basic and clinical sciences, as well as in
prevention, control, behavioral and population-based sciences.
The NCI does not support short-term or prebaccalaureate training. Only
predoctoral and postdoctoral training are supported under this grant mechanism.
The main focus of NCI T32 grants is on preparing postdoctoral candidates for
careers in cancer research.
No more than 25 percent of the individuals supported on new T32 grants can be
predoctoral trainees. Exceptions should be directed to the NCI Cancer Training
Branch (see NCI Staff Contacts).
A minimum of 50 percent of the preceptors/mentors must have peer-reviewed
research support that is directly relevant to cancer research and 50 percent
that is cancer-related.
The NCI supports all of the traditional costs outlined in the official
T32 Program Announcement, however any applicant who is planning to
request more than $500,000 in direct costs in any year must receive prior
approval from an NCI Program Official in the Cancer Training Branch (see
NCI Staff Contacts).
In addition to the academic course work that trainees are expected to complete
as part of their traditional research-specialty training, they are expected to
be provided with a broad perspective (through additional course work, seminars,
or other means) of the research issues, approaches, concepts, and opportunities
in cancer research.
Under the NIH
Data Sharing Policy, grantees are expected to engage in a timely
release of final data sets that have been generated with NIH support for use by
other researchers, provide a Data Sharing Plan that will achieve this
objective, OR state why data sharing is not possible or appropriate. No Data
Sharing Plan is required for the T32 mechanism because it supports a training,
rather than a research grant. It supports stipends and other ancillary costs
for individual trainees, but it does not provide support for the generation of
research data, directly. With regard to the data generated by trainees working
in research environments funded by NIH research grants, it is the
responsibility of the institutions that are awarded these research grants to
share the data and provide acceptable Data Sharing Plans to the NIH as part of
the research application.
In 1996, the NCI developed and implemented a set of suggested tabular formats for the presentation of the large amount of data required for a T32 grant application. The purpose of these formats was to enhance the uniformity of the presentations of data in submitted T32 applications, thereby facilitating the review process; and to reduce the number of submitted applications with missing data. In the following years, a number of NIH institutes developed and implemented their own suggested sets of tabular formats for T32 grants. With a view to developing a common set of tabular formats for the data in T32 grant applications, in July, 2004 a Trans-NIH committee was convened to develop a common set of suggested tabular formats for T32 grant applications. The result of the activities of this committee was a set of suggested tabular formats which the NCI is adopting for use by their T32 applicants (NEW FORMATS). The NEW FORMATS tabular formats are also published on the National Institutes of General Medicine (NIGMS) website and can be accessed using the following link: (http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Training/NRSASuggestions.htm#sample_formats).
The provided tabular formats are only suggested and not required. The suggested formats also do not take into account all of the new requirements for diversity reporting. Applicants should refer to the section titled "Recruitment and Retention Plan to Enhance Diversity" using the Review Process hot link in the margin of this page for information or PA-06-468 (http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-468.html) on diversity reporting requirements. Applicants are encouraged to at least refer to the suggested tabular formats to help ensure that they are providing all of the required information for a T32 grant application.
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