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Loan Repayment Program for General Research

Program Information

Popular name

(NIH General Research Loan Repayment Program; GR-LRP)

Program Number

93.232

Program objective

This listing is no longer in use. To recruit and retain health professionals performing research in fields required by the NIH to carry out its mission by providing educational loan repayment for participants with substantial amounts of educational debt relative to income, who agree by written contract to engage in laboratory or clinical research as employees of the NIH for a minimum 3-year period.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    During budget year 2016, it is projected that 63 awards will be provided. During budget year 2016, a total of 63 awards were provided.

  2. 2017

    During budget year 2017, it is projected that 62 awards will be provided.

  3. 2018

    The projection for budget year 2018 is 68 awards.

  4. 2020

    69 awards

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

Pertinent information is contained in Public Law 103-43, Section 1631; Section 487C of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 288-3); Public Law 105-392; and Federal Register, Volume 78, No. 66, Friday, April 5, 2013. Notice of Final Rule.