The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
The NIH Research Education Program (R25) aims to support educational activities within the NIH's mission areas. Its primary goal is to encourage individuals from various specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to pursue research careers in the fields of biomedical, behavioral, and clinical sciences, thereby promoting recruitment into these vital areas of research.