Through this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announces an opportunity for current NCI funded Principal Investigators whose postdoctoral fellows have temporarily lost stipend support from a non-profit funder because of the COVID-19 global pandemic may apply for an administrative supplement to cover the postdoctoral fellow’s salary plus applicable F&A for the time and effort devoted to the NCI funded grant.
Background
Continuity is a critical element in research training. The current COVID-19 pandemic is causing a significant fund-raising shortfall for some non-profit organizations who fund cancer research training of postdoctoral fellows, leading, in some instances, to postdoctoral fellows currently working on NCI funded grants to lose their sources of funding.