Stipend: This fellowship provides a yearly stipend ranging from $53,760 to $58,560, depending on years of experience.

Programs which choose to supplement salary amounts must do so from non-federal sources. Programs which choose to instead provide additional compensation for work unrelated to the trainee's research activities under the training grant may do so from federal sources. The part-time work cannot be part of the trainee's progress reports for the training grant and cannot conflict/compete with the trainee's training experience. The Request to Perform Additional Work form must be completed, approved, and submitted to the Department of Genome Sciences (attn: Brian Giebel, Box 355065)

NIH policies on this topic:

Stipend Supplementation, Compensation, and Other Income
 
Full-Time Training (NOT-OD-17-095)

ORCiD account: Trainees will either need to create an ORCiD account, or link their eRA Commons profile to an existing ORCiD account. This can be done via the eRA Commons Personal Profile.

NHGRI Annual Meeting: Trainees are expected to attend at least one NHGRI annual meeting to present their research. The GTG typically provides travel funds for this purpose.

Going on leave: If you decide to go on leave while receiving GTG support, please contact Brian Giebel (bgiebel [ a t ] uw.edu) with information about your plans.

In the past, Trainees who have decided to go on leave for six months or less during their period of support have generally been able to resume grant support upon their return. However, each case must be considered individually within the context of available funding on the grant. We cannot guarantee that you will be added back.

While exceptions are possible under unusual circumstances, trainees who end up being away for longer than 6 months typically are not added back to the grant upon their return.

Benefits: Information on available insurance plans and premium rates through UW is available at: http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/benefits/ . Retirement benefits are not covered.  Due to the awarded trainee allowance being lower than actual health insurance costs, the GTG may not be able to cover the full benefits amount.  The remaining amount will need to be covered by your advisor from a non-federal budget.  Costs will be calculated at the end of the training period and your advisor will be contacted at that point.

Taxability of stipends: The awardee is responsible for determining his/her tax liability.

Payback agreement: The first 12 months of NRSA support for postdoctoral research training carries with it a payback obligation to engage in a month of health-related research, research training, or teaching for each month you receive an NRSA award for postdoctoral research training up to and including 12 months. This service must be initiated within two years after termination of NRSA support. Should an NRSA fellow continue on for a second year on the Genome Training Grant, that second year will count as payback, and the fellow will leave the training program with no further service payback obligations.

Continued support: Following their first year on the training grant, awardees may apply for a second year of support contingent upon satisfactory research progress and participation (see requirements below). You will be contacted for the following items:

- your updated CV
- brief research update (1-2 pages is fine), to include a few sentences justifying your work with respect to Genome Sciences
- brief note of support from your advisor (an email is fine)

Total number of years of fellowship support: The GTG generally supports postdoc trainees for up to 2 years. The total number of years that an individual may receive NIH NRSA support as a postdoctoral fellow is 3 years.

Citizenship: The training fellowships are available only to citizens of the United States or foreign nationals holding Permanent Resident Visas (alien registration receipt card I-151 or I-551).

Ethics: Fellowship awardees are required under the terms of the training grant to attend departmental ethics training. 

Course requirements: As part of their interdisciplinary training, trainees are expected to attend at least one seminar outside of their normal research activities each week. Postdoctoral trainees are also encouraged to take elective courses to broaden their interdisciplinary knowledge base.

Does your project include human or animal subjects? If so, please provide the existing protocol # and approval date or contact the Genome Training Grant assistant if this needs to be set up.