93.209: Contraception and Infertility Research Loan Repayment Program

93.209

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National Institutes of Health (NIH) [HHS]

Aug. 2, 2022

Aug. 2, 2022

This listing is no longer in use. The CIR-LRP is designed to provide an incentive for health professionals to work in areas of reproductive extramural contraception and/or infertility research (which are defined, respectively, as research that has the ultimate goal to provide new or improved methods of preventing pregnancy and research that has long-range objective to evaluate, treat, or ameliorate conditions which result in the failure of couples to either conceive or bear young) by repaying educational loans. The CIR-LRP will pay up to $50,000 ($20,000 for ACGME fellows) of the principal of a participant's educational loans for each year of commitment not to exceed 25% of the remaining loan balance for new awards and 50% for renewals. LRP loan repayments are considered taxable income and can significantly affect an awardee's taxable income. To offset the tax burden resulting from LRP repayments, the LRPs also make a tax payment to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) equal to 39 percent of the annual LRP repayment. In return for these loan repayments, awardees must agree to conduct contraception and/or infertility research for not less than one year for each year of support awarded. The long- range objective of the CIR-LRP is to stimulate the commitment of researchers to sustaining a career focus on contraception and/or infertility research, as defined above.

C - Direct Payments for Specified Use

Applicants must be U.S. citizens (or U.S. nationals or permanent residents) Applicants for LRP-CIR must be qualified health and/or allied health professionals including, but not limited to, physicians, Ph.D.-level scientists, nurses and physician assistants, as well as graduate students and postgraduate research fellows training in the health professions, who must be (a) engaged in employment/training at an NICHD extramural laboratory, or (b) engaged in qualifying research activities in a qualified institution. Applicants for new awards must commit to conduct contraception and infertility research for at least 50% of their time (at least 20 hours weekly based on a 40 hour week) for two years and must be funded by a domestic nonprofit or U.S. Government (Federal, state or local) entity. Also, the research must not be prohibited by Federal law or NIH policy. Complete eligibility and other important information is available at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-19-120.html

Assistance in the form of loan repayments will be made to the lender of participants in the CIR-LRP.

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