Federal sponsors offer a range of programs to help prepare individuals for careers in biomedical, behavioral, social, clinical research, engineering, and other disciplines. UIC currently holds several training grants that support undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty. The table below includes a list of active training grants. If you are an interested applicant please review the instructions in the table for how to apply.
To learn more about some of the different training grant programs available please review the following links:
• T-series Institutional Training Grants
• K-12 Clinical Scientist Institutional Career Development Program Award
• KL2 Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Awards
If you are a training grant director and would like to have your training grant information updated or included in this list, please contact Valerie Miller, Director, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at fako@uic.edu.
Active UIC Training Grants Heading link
| Program | Mechanism | Trainees Supported | College | Sponsor | Program Contacts | Instructions for Applicants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Training Program in Lung Biology and Pathobiology | T32 | Predoc Positions: 6; Postdoc Positions: 6 | College of Medicine | NIH; NHLBI | Project PI: Dolly Mehta, PhD (dmehta@uic.edu); Administrative Contact: Amelia Mutso, PhD (amutso@uic.edu) | Click here for postdoc application instructions |
| Training in the Neuroscience of Mental Health | T32 | Predoc Positions: 4; Clinical Postdoc Positions: 2 | College of Medicine | NIH; NIMH | Project PI: Mark Rasenick, PhD (raz@uic.edu) | Click here for clinical postdoc application instructions |
| Precision Lifestyle Medicine and Translation Research (PREMIER) | T32 | Postdoc Positions: 3 | College of Medicine | NIH; NHLBI | Project PIs: Jun Ma, MD, PhD, FAHA, FABMR (maj2015@uic.edu), Rachel Caskey, MD, MAPP (rcaskey@uic.edu); Administrative Contact: Amruta Barve (amruta@uic.edu) | Click here for postdoc application instructions |
| Training program in the biology and translational research on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias | T32 | Predoc Positions: 4 | College of Medicine | NIH; NIA | Project PIs: Orly Lazarov, PhD (olazarov@uic.edu); Stephanie Cologna, PhD (cologna@uic.edu); Leon Tai, PhD (leontai@uic.edu); Administrative Contact: Lea Smucker (kdougl1@uic.edu) | Click here for predoc application instructions |
| Training Program in Personalized Cardiovascular Medicine (TPIPCVM) | T32 | Predoc Positions: 4; Postdoc Positions: 5 | College of Medicine | NIH; NHLBI | Project PI: Dawood Darbar, MBChB, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS (darbar@uic.edu); Administrative Contact: Muriel Chen (yining@uic.edu) | |
| Alcohol Research Training in epigenetics and pathophysiology (ARTEP) | T32 | Predoc Positions: 3; Postdoc Positions: 4 | College of Medicine | NIH; NIAAA | Project PI: Subhash Pandey, PhD (scpandey@uic.edu) | Click here for postdoc application instructions |
| Postdoctoral Training Program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Translational Research | T32 | Postdoc Positions: 4 | College of Medicine | NIH; NHLBI | Project PIs: Steven Dudek, MD (sdudek@uic.edu), Irena Levitan (levitan@uic.edu) | |
| Cancer Education and Career Development Program | T32 | Predoc Positions: 3; Postdoc Positions: 3 | College of Medicine & School of Public Heath | NIH; NCI | Project PI: Marian Fitzgibbon, PhD (mlf@uic.edu); Administrative Contact: Mirjana Antonic (manton6@uic.edu) | Click here for predoc or postdoc application instructions |
| Vascular Biology; Signaling and Therapeutics training program | T32 | Predoc Positions: 4; Postdoc Positions: 2 | College of Medicine | NIH; NHLBI | Project PIs: Jan Kitajewski, PhD (kitaj@uic.edu), Kishore Wary, PhD (kkwary@uic.edu) | Click here for predoc or postdoc application instructions |
| Research Training in Natural Product Complementary and Integrative Health | T32 | Predoc Positions: 6 | College of Pharmacy | NIH; NCCIH | Project PIs: Guido Pauli, PhD (gfp@uic.edu), Jimmy Orjala, PhD (orjala@uic.edu) | |
| Medical Scientist Training Program | T32 | MD/PhD training program | College of Medicine | NIH; NIGMS | Project PI: Mark Rosenblatt, MD, PhD, MBA, MHA (mrosenbl@uic.edu) | |
| Diabetes Research Training Program (UICDRTP) | T32 | Postdoc Positions | College of Medicine | NIH; NIDDK | Project PI: Terry Unterman, MD (unterman@uic.edu); Administrative contact: Pamela Terrell (terrell@uic.edu) | Click here for postdoc application instructions |
| Bridges to the Baccalaureate Research Training Program at University of Illinois at Chicago | T34 | Undergraduate students | College of Liberal arts and Sciences | NIH; NIGMS | Project PIs: Donald Wink, PhD (dwink@uic.edu); Paul Grippo, PhD (pgrippo@uic.edu) | |
| Short-Term Research Training Program in NIDDK Mission Areas | T35 | First-year medical students | College of Medicine | NIH; NIDDK | Project PIs: James Lash, MD (jplash@uic.edu); Waddah A. Alrefai, MD (alrefai@uic.edu) | |
| Great Lakes Center for Occupational Health and Safety (T42) | T42 | Center trains graduate students and postdocs in occupational health and safety | School of Public Health | CDC; NIOSH | Project PI: Susan Buchanan (sbucha3@uic.edu) | |
| Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health plus Academic Career Enhancement Program supplement (T76) | T76 | Center trains students to support and promote the health and well-being of women, children, and families. Funding supplement allows for training of 1 postdoc and 1 junior faculty fellow at any one time and 3 total of each over the course of the award. | School of Public Health | HRSA | Project PI: Arden Handler, DrPH, MPH (handler@uic.edu) | |
| Chicago KUH FORWARD | TL1 | Predoc Positions: 5; Postdoc Positions: 5 | College of Medicine | NIH; NIDDK | Project PI: James Lash, MD (jplash@uic.edu); Administrative Contact: Natalie Meza (nmeza1@uic.edu) | Click here for predoc or postdoc application instructions |
| IRACDA K12: Chicago ARea Excellence in Education & Research (CAREER) Program | K12 | Designed to provide rigorous and balanced team-based training in both teaching and research to a diverse group of postdoctoral fellows | College of Pharmacy and College of Medicine | NIH; NIGMS | Program PIs: Larisa Nonn, PhD (lnonn@uic.edu), Joanna Burdette, PhD (joannab@uic.edu); Administrative Contact: IRACDA Program Coordinator (iracdaPD@uic.edu) | Click here for application instructions |
| K12: Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health | K12 | Trains a diverse group of junior faculty scholars to become independent women’s health or sex/gender-based research investigators | College of Medicine | NIH; NICHD | Program PIs: Pauline M. Maki, PhD (pmaki@psych.uic.edu), Irina A. Buhimschi, MD (irina@uic.edu); Administrative Contact: Nyahne Bergeron, MPH (nberge1@uic.edu) | Click here for application instructions |
| K12: Independent Clinician Vision Scientist (ICVS) Development Program | K12 | Enables qualified junior faculty clinician vision scientists to engage in a structured and mentored learning experience that will facilitate career advancement and enable trainees to promote their development to fully independent positions in the broad areas of patient-orientated, translational and basic research | College of Medicine | NIH; NEI | Program PI: Mark Rosenblatt, MD, PhD, MBA, MHA (mrosenbl@uic.edu) | Click here for application instructions |
| KL2: Clinical and Translational Sciences (CATS) Scholars Program | KL2 | Intended to accelerate the career progression of junior faculty scientists who have demonstrated a commitment to clinical and/or translational research | Center for Clinical and Translational Science | NIH; NCATS | Program PI: Shane A. Phillips PT, PhD, FAHA (shanep@uic.edu) | Click here for application instructions |
| IGE: Increasing Academic Success for Underrepresented Minority PhD Graduate STEM Students Through Self-Advocacy Education | NRT | Predoc Positions: 36 | College of Engineering | NSF; Division of Graduate Education | Project PIs: Carmen Lilley, PhD (clilley@uic.edu), Karen Colley, PhD (karenc@uic.edu), Gregory Larnell, PhD (glarnell@uic.edu) | |
| Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) | GRFP | NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees. | Graduate College | NSF; Division of Graduate Education | Project PI: Benn Williams (bwilli7@uic.edu) | Click here for more information |
| Research Training Group in Algebra, Geometry and Topology | RTG | Postdoc Positions: 4; Provides for graduate student stipends, tuition waivers and summer support | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | NSF; Division of Mathematical Sciences | Project PIs: Izzet Coskun, PhD (icoskun@uic.edu), Lawrence Ein, PhD (ein@uic.edu), Daniel Groves, PhD (dgroves@uic.edu), Julius Ross, PhD (juliusro@uic.edu), Kevin Tucker, PhD (kftucker@uic.edu) | |
| Advanced Training in Translational and Community-Engaged Scholarship to Improve Community Living and Participation of People with Disabilities | AART | Postdoc Positions: 6 | College of Applied Health Sciences | ACL; NIDILRR | Project PIs: Tamar Heller, PhD (theller@uic.edu), Co-PIs: Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, PhD (ysuarez@uic.edu), Alexander Aruin, PhD (aaruin@uic.edu), Angela Odoms-Young, PhD (odmyoung@uic.edu) |