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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Competitive Revision Supplements to Existing T32 Programs to Include Institutional Research Training in Data Science for Infectious and Immune Mediated Diseases

National Institutes of Health

This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) solicits competitive revision applications from existing T32 recipients to support additional training slots within the NIAID Data Science Training Program (NDSTP) for pre-doctoral data science training. Applications must propose a data science training program that will include research and mentoring opportunities, as well as coursework for pre-doctoral biomedical trainees. Through this NOSI, applicants may increase the number of training slots beyond the T32 maximum allowed; the training slots proposed via this NOSI must support trainees pursuing a data science curriculum, described below. It is anticipated that an application will propose 2-3 additional data science training slots and 3-4 awards are expected.

Research and mentorship opportunities will include faculty mentorship for trainees in data science topics and peer-to-peer collaborative research activities ( e.g. , postdoctoral to graduate student, senior graduate student to junior graduate student, etc.) during which trainees from biomedical and computational programs will collaborate on research projects with supervision from researchers with expertise in both infectious and immune-mediated diseases (IID) and computational methods. For the purposes of this NOSI, IID may include the subject areas of infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases.
Coursework will include structured classes in computational methods, data management and sharing, and social and ethical considerations of data science technologies. Applications are expected to propose collaborations between departments of biomedical and computational sciences to develop courses that provide instruction in these areas of data science and will include direct application to IID subjects. An optional seminar series may be developed in addition to coursework.

Proposed programs must comply with the requirements of the parent T32 program and NIAID training grant policies .