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The Clinical Research Curriculum Award (CRCA) is designed to attract talented individuals to the challenges of clinical research and to provide them with the critical skills that are needed to translate basic discoveries into clinical treatments.

The CRCA is intended to stimulate the inclusion of high-quality, multidisciplinary, didactic training as part of the career development of clinical investigators. It supports the development and/or improvement of core courses designed as in-depth instruction in the fundamental skills, methodologies, and theories necessary for the well-trained, independent, clinical researcher.

This award is intended to support the development of formal course work in the design of clinical research projects, hypothesis development, biostatistics, epidemiology, disease mechanisms, medical technology, human genetics, and the legal, ethical, and regulatory issues related to clinical research. The program's long-term goal is to produce clinical researchers who can successfully compete for research support and are knowledgeable about the complex issues associated with conducting sound clinical research.

For the purpose of this award, clinical research includes: patient-oriented research, epidemiologic and behavioral studies, and outcomes or health services research. The NIH defines patient-oriented research as research conducted with human subjects (or on material of human origin such as tissues, specimens, and cognitive phenomena) that requires direct interactions with human subjects. Patient-oriented research includes study of the disease, therapeutic interventions, and clinical trials.

The CRCA is a trans-NIH effort that is administered by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR). Its development is informed by the NIH Roadmap for Biomedical Research and the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program.

Institutions that have received K30 awards are listed below, sorted by principal investigator (click on buttons to display with a different sort). Click the links in the "Institution" column to access the e-mail address, phone, fax, mailing address, and other details about the Principal Investigator and other Key Personnel at that Institution. Links in the "Grant #" column lead to Grant Abstracts, if available, and the "Links/Files" column contains links to Institution ethics courses and information. In addition, E-Mail Lists for all PIs and Key Personnel as well as the contact for comments and/or updates are available below.

For updated information about the K30 award, please see the NIH Guide Notice of July 1, 2003.