Stay up-to-date on the latest announcements, events, and research highlights from NINR.

The Applicant Assistance Program (AAP) is a free, guided 10-week program designed to help first-time applicants.

Explore how NINR-supported research is making a difference. Check out our latest video series, which highlights how NINR-funded researchers are applying our research lenses to advance public health.

Scientist and certified nurse practitioner Paule V. Joseph, PhD MS, FNP-BC, FAAN, received a Protégé Award at this year’s Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research (FNINR) NightinGala.

The Design by Biomedical Undergraduate (DEBUT) Challenge is an annual contest that recognizes excellence in biomedical design and innovation. The challenge is open to teams of undergraduate students developing technologies to address unmet health care needs. NINR funds the 2023 DEBUT Challenge Technologies to Empower Nurses in Community Settings prize.

The NIH-wide Social Determinants of Health Research Coordinating Committee (SDOH RCC), established in 2022, was created out of an urgent need to develop a coordinated strategy to propel discoveries to improve individual and population health, reduce health disparities, and advance health equity.

The video recording of NINR's third Director's Lecture of 2023 is now available to view. On July 12, 2023, Dr. Sarah A. Stoddard, Associate Professor of Nursing and Health Behavior & Health Education at the University of Michigan, and Dr. Paul Kuehnert, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Public Health Accreditation Board, presented research priorities and the practice and policy implications of nursing research through the population and community health lens.

The NINR is providing an opportunity for grantees to participate in an online entrepreneurial education platform aimed at teaching academic innovators methods to assess the commercial value of their biomedical technologies through our commercialization assistance program, Concept to Clinic: Commercializing Innovation Education (C3i).

The video recording of NINR's first Director's Lecture of 2023 is now available to view. On February 14, 2023, Dr. Lusine Poghosyan and Dr. Ellen-Marie Whelan presented research priorities and the practice and policy implications of nursing research through the systems and models of care lens.

Scientist and certified nurse practitioner Paule V. Joseph, Ph.D. M.S., FNP-BC, FAAN, is the inaugural 2022-2024 American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Fellow at the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Dr. Joseph's selection will be announced at the Annual Meeting of the NAM in Washington, D.C. on Monday, October 17.