A closeout of the FIRST program has taken place and awardees are no longer receiving funding. The FIRST program provided funds to cohort awardee institutions to hire researchers in a variety of subfields of biomedical and behavioral research including: cancer biology, neuroscience, cardiovascular sciences, biomedical engineering, clinical psychology, and data science.

Please note that since the FIRST program is no longer an active Common Fund program, the program website is being maintained as an archive and will not be updated on a regular basis.