NIH Increases Loan Repayment
Awards
November 14, 2003 - The National Institutes of Health
(NIH) Nov. 4 announced that it has awarded two-year loan
repayment awards to 1,200 health researchers in FY 2003
at cost of $63.3 million. This represents an increase of 66
percent over the number of awards made in FY 2002. NIH administers
five loan repayment programs: clinical research, clinical
research for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, contraception
and infertility research, health disparities research, and
pediatrics research. Awards cover up to $35,000 annually of
individual's qualified educational loans and the taxes related
to the payments.
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