National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Traci Heath Mondoro, Ph.D.
NHLBI Health Scientist Administrator
Blood Resources Program, Division of Blood Diseases and Resources
6701 Rockledge Drive, MSC 7950
Bethesda, MD 20892 (if using overnight or express service, remove MSC, add Room 10135, and use ZIP code 20817)
Phone:  301-435-0052
Fax:  301-480-1060
Email: mondorot@nhlbi.nih.gov

Ms. Patricia Reyes, NHLBI
Grants Management Specialist
6701 Rockledge Drive
MSC 7926
Bethesda, MD 20817-7926
Phone: 301-435-0166
Fax: 301-480-1948
Email: reyespc@mail.nih.gov

Up to $75,000 plus fringe benefits per year.

No research development support funds are provided.

Are competing K02 renewals accepted? No.

NHLBI requires K02 applicants to have national peer-reviewed support (funding from state chapters of the American Heart Association or American Lung Association is not acceptable).

Enough time should remain on an on-going independently funded project so that the K02 will provide support for at least two or more years concurrently with the independent support. If the K02 project period will exceed the project period of funded independent support, the candidate should provide information about proposed continuing research.

Please refer to: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/funding/training/index.htm for specific information on NHLBI programs and career development policies.

NHLBI Helpful Hints for K02 Candidates can be found at: Helpful Hints for Independent Scientist Award.
NHLBI Model K02 Applications can be found at: K02 Model Applications.

Chyren Hunter, Ph.D.
Office of Extramural Activities
National Institute on Aging
Gateway Building, Room 2C218
7201 Wisconsin Avenue, MSC 9205
Bethesda, MD 20892-9205
Use Bethesda MD 20814 for express mailing
Office phone: 301-496-9322
Office fax: 301-402-0528
E-mail: clh@nia.nih.gov

Lesa McQueen
Grants management Specialist,
National Institute on Aging
Gateway Building, Suite 2N212, MSC 9205
Bethesda, MD  20892-2292
Telephone:  301-496-1472
FAX:  301-402-3672
Email: McqueenL@mail.nih.gov

Up to 100,000 per year.

Up to $8,000 per year (for tuition and other training-related expenses). Under most circumstances K02 awardees must have independent funding to support research expenses

Are competing K02 renewals accepted? No

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Program Contact
Division of Neuroscience and Behavior
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
5635 Fishers Lane , Room 2053, MSC 9304
Bethesda , MD 20892-9304
Telephone:  (301) 443-2678
FAX:  (301) 443-1650
Email:    rsorense@mail.nih.gov

Judy Fox
Grants Management Branch
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
5635 Fishers Lane , Room 3021
Bethesda , MD 20892-9304
Phone: 301-443-4704
FAX: 301-443-3891
Email: jfox@mail.nih.gov  

Up to 75 percent of base salary. Minimum 75 percent level of effort.

NIAAA considers requests for additional funds of up to $25,000 per year only for individuals engaged in predominantly theoretical work, such as modeling or computer simulation.

Are competing K02 renewals accepted? The K02 is renewable one time only.

NIAAA sponsors a variety of career development programs to ensure the development of highly qualified investigators in alcohol-related research.  Opportunities under this announcement include research in the social, behavioral, biological and mathematical sciences as related to alcohol abuse and alcoholism.   Candidates must have active, independent research support which is renewable during the period of the career development award.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Milton J. Hernandez, Ph.D.
Director
Office of Special Populations and Research Training
6700B Rockledge Drive
Room 2101
Bethesda, MD 20892
Tel: 301-496-3775
FAX: 301-496-8697
Email: mh35c@nih.gov

Cindy McDermott
Grants Management Program
6700B Rockledge Drive
Room 2119
Bethesda, MD 20892
Tel: 301-594-7456
FAX: 301-480-3780
Email: cindy_mcdermott@nih.gov

Up to $75,000.

Are competing K02 renewals accepted? No

NIAID requires K02 applicants to have national peer-reviewed support, preferably an NIH R01 grant or equivalent. This grant can be from NIAID or any other institute or source.

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)

Amanda Taylor Boyce, Ph.D.
Program Director
Muscle Development and Physiology
Musculoskeletal Diseases Branch
EP/NIAMS/NIH
1 Democracy Plaza, Suite 862
6701 Democracy Blvd.
Bethesda, MD 20892
Ph: 301-594-5585
Email: boycea@mail.nih.gov

Melinda B. Nelson
Grants Management Officer
6701 Democracy Blvd.
Bethesda , MD 20892
Phone: 301-594-3535
Email: mn23z@nih.gov

Up to $75,000 per year.

None.

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Susan Taymans, Ph.D.
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
6100 Executive Boulevard, Room 8B01
Bethesda, MD 20892
Rockville, MD 20852 (for express/courier service; non-USPS service)
Phone:  301-496-6517
Email: taymanss@mail.nih.gov

Bryan Clark
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health
6100 Executive Boulevard, Room 8A17K, MSC 7510
Bethesda, Maryland  20892-7510
Rockville, MD 20852 (for express/courier service; non-USPS service)
Phone: 301-435-6996
Email: clarkb@mail.nih.gov

Up to $75,000 per year.

Up to $25,000 per year.

Are competing K02 renewals accepted? No

NICHD accepts K02 applications only from individuals who currently have research support from NICHD.  Applicants must be the PI on an R01 or the PI on a sub-project of multi-component research project.  PIs on R03s or R21s are not eligible.

Daniel A. Sklare, Ph.D.
Research Training Officer
Division of Scientific Programs, NIDCD
Executive Plaza So., Room 400C
6120 Executive Blvd., MSC 7180
Bethesda, MD 20892-7180 (for courier, zip code is 20852)
PHONE# 301-496-1804
FAX# 301-402-6250
Email: sklared@nidcd.nih.gov 

Christopher Myers
Chief, Grants Management Branch
Division of Extramural Research, NIDCD
Executive Plaza So., Room 400C
6120 Executive Blvd., MSC 7180
Bethesda, MD 20892-7180(for courier, zip code is 20852)
PHONE# 301-402-0909
FAX# (301) 402-1758
Email: myersc@mail,nih.gov 

Up to $75,000 per year.

Not Provided.

Are competing K02 renewals accepted?   No

The NIDCD K02 program is a salary-only award providing at least 75% protected research time to recently independent scientists having Federal or nonFederal peer-reviewed research grant support (as Principal Investigator) within the NIDCD scientific mission for a period of at least two-three years beyond the anticipated award date of the K02 award.  Applicants for NIDCD K02 awards must have demonstrated independent research accomplishments at the time of application, but not yet be considered well-established in the research area of the application.  The K02 research plan can comprise an ongoing independent research program, an expansion of one or more research aims of an ongoing grant, or a new research trajectory (if research support is in place); the scope of the research plan should be made clear in the application.  If the requested K02 project period will exceed the period of funded independent grant support, the candidate should address his/her plans concerning continuing research support (e.g., planned continuing continuation grant application submissions). 

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

Kevin S. Hardwick, DDS, MPH
Extramural Training Officer
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
45 Center Drive, Room 4AS25F
Bethesda , MD 20892
Telephone: (301) 594-2765
FAX: (301) 402-7033
Email: kevin.hardwick@nih.gov

Mary Daley
Chief Grants Management Officer
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIH, HHS
45 Center Drive MSC 6402
Bldg. 45, Rm. 4AN44B
Bethesda , MD 20892-6402
Phone: 301-594-4808
FAX: 301-480-3562
Email: md74u@nih.gov

Up to $75,000 per year.

Up to $15,000 per year.

Are competing K02 renewals accepted?   No

To be eligible, applicants must be investigators with active NIDCR research project grant support at the time of submission and award. For the purposes of this policy, PIs of R03 and R21 grants are not eligible.

The K02 award can be funded for up to five years, as long as the research project grant remains active. If a competitive renewal of the research project grant is not successful, K02 support can be continued for one year to allow for a resubmission of the competitive renewal application.

National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Mimi M. Ghim, Ph.D.
Office of Science Policy and Communications, NIDA
6001 Executive Blvd., Room 5232,
MSC 9591
Bethesda, MD 20892
Telephone: (301) 443-6071
FAX: (301) 443-6277
E-mail: ghimm@mail.nih.gov

Catherine Mills
6101 Executive Blvd, Suite 270, MSC 8403
Bethesda, MD  20892-8403
FEDEX: Rockville, MD  20852-8403
Telephone: (301) 443-6710
FAX: (301) 594-6849
Email: cmills@nida.nih.gov

Up to $90,000 per year.

Research support is not provided except for predominantly theoretical work, such as modeling or computer simulation, in which case up to $25,000 per year can be obtained.

Are competing K02 renewals accepted? The K02 is renewable one time only.

Please see NIDA's budget/salary guidelines at NOT-DA-05-005.

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Carol Shreffler, PhD
Program Administrator, Training and Career Development, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
MD EC-23,
P. O. Box 12233
Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709,
Phone:  919-541-1445,
FAX: 919-541-5064,
E-mail:  Shreffl1@niehs.nih.gov

Donald Ellis
Grants Management Specialist
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
P.O.Box 12233
Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709
Phone:  919-551-1894
FAX::919-441-2860
E-mail:  donaldellis@niehs.nih.gov

Up to $75,000 per year.

Up to $25,000 per year.

Are competing K02 renewals accepted? No

Strong preference is given to candidates with active research project grant support from the NIEHS. If R01 grant support is from another NIH Institute, the candidate must propose a research project and career development program which is expected to have a defined impact on the environmental health sciences, be directly responsive to the mission of the NIEHS, show a decided career shift to the environmental health sciences, and commit to directing an R01 submission to the NIEHS within the first two years of the K02 award which proposes to study the human health effects of an environmentally relevant agent. Examples of environmentally relevant agents include industrial chemicals or manufacturing byproducts, metals, pesticides, herbicides, air pollutants and other inhaled toxicants, particulates or fibers, fungal, bacterial, or biologically derived toxins. Agents considered non-responsive to this announcement include, but are not limited to: alcohol, chemotherapeutic agents, radiation which is not the result of an ambient environmental exposure, smoking, except when considered as a secondary smoke exposure as a component in the indoor environment (particularly in children), drugs of abuse, pharmaceuticals, and infectious or parasitic agents, except when these are disease co-factors to an environmental toxicant exposure to produce the biological effect.

PI’s on R03 and R21 grant support are not eligible.

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Nancy L Desmond, Ph.D.
NIMH
Division of Neuroscience & Basic Behavioral Science
6001 Executive Blvd., Room 7197, MSC 9645
Bethesda, MD 20892-9645
Rockville, MD 20852 (for courier delivery)
PHONE: 301-443-3563
FAX:  301-443-1731
Email: ndesmond@nih.gov

Ms. Dawn Walker
NIMH
Grants Management Branch
6001 Executive Blvd., Room 6118, MSC 9605
Bethesda MD 20892-9605
PHONE: 301-443-3858
FAX: 301-443-6885
Email: dw185t@.nih.gov

Up to $90,000 per year.

Generally none.

Are competing K02 renewals accepted?   One competing renewal is permitted.

Only investigators with active, peer-reviewed, independent research support from the NIMH at the time of submission may apply for a K02 award from NIMH. Eligibility for renewal of a K02 award is also limited to those who have an active NIMH grant at the time of application. NIMH grantees are PIs on active R01, R24, R37, P01, P20, P30, P50, U01 and U10 grants. Investigators who are subproject investigators on NIMH P or U series grants, or who are principal investigators on a subcontract of any other grant mechanism, are not eligible.  Scientists who hold a position with committed salary support for research or whose primary responsibility is administrative must demonstrate a compelling need for a K02 award.  Support from either the K02 or K24, or any combination of these two awards, is limited to two, five-year terms.  If support for the qualifying NIMH research grant lapses during the K02 project period, NIMH will continue to support the K02 through one resubmission of the qualifying NIMH grant.  If this resubmission is unsuccessful, NIMH will terminate the K02 award at that time.  Potential applicants are encouraged to contact their NIMH program officer to discuss their interests in this program.

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke(NINDS)

Stephen J. Korn, Ph.D.
Director of Training and Career Development
NINDS
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 2186
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone: 301-496-4188
FAX:  301-480-1080
Email: NINDSTrainingOffice@ninds.nih.gov

Mutema Nyankale
Grants Management Specialist
6001 Executive Blvd.
NSC/Rm. 3250
Bethesda, MD 20892-9537
Rockville, MD 20852 (Express Mail)
(phone) 301-496-6506
(fax) 301-451-5635

Up to $95,000 per year.

Up to $50,000 per year.

Are competing K02 renewals accepted? No

In contrast to requirements of other institutes, applicants are not eligible for this award if they have a major, independent, peer-reviewed research grant (R01, subproject on a P01, or equivalent) prior to receiving the K02 award. This program supports the continued career development of clinician-scientists that are committed to a career in neuroscience research. The award provides salary and research costs for the first three years, and continued salary support for years four and five, contingent on successful competition for an R01 or equivalent award. Applicants should refer to the NINDS website (http://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/postdoc.htm#k02) for NINDS-specific instructions.”

Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Dr. Mary Frances Picciano
Senior Nutrition Research Specialist
Office of Dietary Supplements
6100 Executive Blvd., Rm. 3B01
Bethesda , MD 20892-7517
Phone: 301-435-3608
FAX: 301-480-1845
Email: piccianm@od.nih.gov

Tammy Dickinson
6100 Executive Blvd., Rm. 2B03
Bethesda , MD 20892-7517
Phone: 301-402-2911
FAX: 301-480-7660
Email: dickinst@od.nih.gov

ODS Does Not Issue Awards.

Are competing K02 renewals accepted? Not Applicable.

ODS does not receive applications, and does not fund applications directly, but provides funds to other ICs to support areas aligned with the mission of ODS. Applicants must follow Institute or Center rules when applying for the K02 award.