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Clarification Of Eligibility For Mid-Career Investigator Award In Patient-Oriented Research (K24)
Release Date: August 22, 2006
Announcement Number: NOT-OD-06-095

Funding Contact: Stephen Korn, Ph.D.
Program Area: Training and Career Development
Also See:  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-04-107.html

Brief Description:
The purpose of this Notice is to clarify the eligibility of principal investigators for the Mid-Career Investigator Award in Patient Oriented Research (K24) as previously announced in PA-04-107. Candidates for this award must be mid-career health-professional doctorates or equivalent and should be at the Associate Professor level or the equivalent. Applicants may request and may be awarded from three to five years of support. K24 awardees may apply for a one-time renewal for an additional three to five years of support if the K24 recipient continues to have independent peer-reviewed patient-oriented research support at the time of submission of the competing renewal application. Applicants should clearly demonstrate their continuing need for protected time to expand their research and mentoring programs. During the course of the initial award, an investigator may be promoted from Associate Professor to Full Professor. Such investigators are considered to be eligible to apply for renewal of their support, as long as they meet all other eligibility requirements stated in PA-04-107. Renewal K24 applications will not be rejected, nor will they be unscored, solely based on the applicant’s academic rank. Reviewers will continue to apply their professional judgment in assessing the five review criteria, and in assigning priority scores to specific K24 grant applications. Individual NIH Institutes and Centers may differ in the programmatic priority that they apply to investigator rank in reaching their funding decisions. Differences in the rates of investigator promotion may mean that a Full Professor may or may not be considered mid-career depending on the discipline.

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