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The Collections Branch (CB) is comprised of three service areas to assist the NIH meets its mission of biomedical research.

Fellowship Program: The Fellowship Program was established to provide financial support to an individual during a period in which the awardee is acquiring research experience or training. The program is made up of three types of awards: The Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA), Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA), and the Intramural Visiting Fellow (VF) Programs. 

These awards are also known as stipends, and they are managed by the NIH Institutes and Centers through the NIH Fellowship Program. 

The OFM Fellowship team provides accounting and payment services to the NIH Institutes and Centers in support of the NIH Fellowship Program. (read more) 

Royalties: Each year hundreds of new inventions are made at NIH. The Royalty team provides payments and accounting services of financial resources received under the authority of the Federal Technology Transfer Act (Cooperative Research and Development Agreements/CRADAs and Royalties). Royalty team records Royalty incomes collected from the licensees in NBS and Royalty Management Systems (ROMANSYS), calculates the income collected to licenses as per the guidelines of Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) and processes payments twice a year to inventors, technology partners and the ICs.

Gifts and Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs): Our office supports the NIH Institutes and Centers by processing the collections of funds and accounting for all gifts and donations to the NIH, which includes bequests, devises of real property, grants, and monetary donations.

We also collect and monitor Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADAs) funds received from other agencies, organizations, and institutions, and distribute those funds to the various NIH Institutes and Centers. ​(read more)​