​Overview

What is a training grant?

• Federal training grants provide support to predocs, postdocs, and short-term trainees.
• Used to develop and enhance training programs in order to help ensure a diverse and highly trained workforce is available to advance the nation's research agenda.

Why are training grants important to the public?

• Training grants support the kind of broad, basic research that directly benefits the public.
• Programs enable the university to train and prepare the next generation of scholars for careers in research, clinical, and translational science.
• Also help shape the next generation of scholars who will go on to create innovations in public health, clinical, basic, and applied sciences.
• Training grants and the training programs they support also help fulfill UC San Diego’s teaching and public service mission. These valuable programs help UC San Diego advance the health and well-being of our region, state, nation, and the world.

Why are training grants important to trainees?

• Training grants enable graduate students (predocs), postdocs and short-term trainees to concentrate on research as a full- or part-time job between their time as students and their years as faculty or researchers.
• These grants give our trainees the tools, knowledge, experience, and professional connections necessary to make the leap from classroom to lab.