NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Programs (L30 Clinical, L40 Pediatric, L70 FOCUS)
Repays qualified educational debt for researchers outside NIH who commit to at least 20 hours a week of qualifying research over a two-year period. Renewable. Not a project grant: it pays down the researcher's own student loans.
- Indicative award
- up to $50k per year (per year)Up to $50,000 annually in qualified educational debt repayment, in exchange for a two-year research commitment. The NIH overview page states this figure directly.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Sep, Oct, NovPublished deadline: 2026-11-19 — 49 days awayThe application cycle opens 1 September 2026 and closes 19 November 2026, with awards beginning 1 July 2027. NIH publishes these dates on the LRP funding category page.
- Who can apply
- Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Any faculty rank, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Must be a US citizen, US national or permanent resident by award start, hold a doctoral degree (MD, PhD, PharmD, PsyD, DO, DDS, DMD, DPM, DC, ND, OD, DVM or equivalent), and carry qualified educational debt of at least 20 percent of institutional base salary (renewal applicants exempt). Research must be funded by a domestic nonprofit, university, professional association or US government agency; for-profit funding, non-NIH federal employment over 20 hours a week, federal judgment liens and outstanding health-professional service obligations all disqualify.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- loan repayment · clinical research · pediatric research · research workforce retention
- Apply at
- https://grants.nih.gov/funding/funding-categories/lrp/extramural-lrp
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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