Branch Activities: Training and Career Development Programs
The Branch supports research training and career development through various award mechanisms. The success rate for training and career awards has been very favorable, ranging from 40 percent to 70 percent. The number of applications received and awarded, and the corresponding success rate for each type of mechanism during fiscal years 2000 through 2003 is outlined in Table 2. In general, PPB training and career development awards for this period include:
- Four new National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship for Minority Students and Students with Disabilities (F31)
- Six new and three continued National Research Service Award for Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32)
- Eight new and four continued Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08)
- Seven new and one continued Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23)
- Five new and one continued Mid-Career Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research Award (K24)
- Seven new and one continued National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training Grants (T32); six of these programs have been active for 10 years, and five of these have been active for 20 years or more
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