Title:
NCI Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K01)

Contact:
Ms. Belinda Locke
Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Branch
Office of Centers, Training and Resources
ODDES, NCI
Telephone: (301) 496-7344
E-mail: Lockeb@mail.nih.gov

Objective of Project:

To support and enhance the likelihood of success for underrepresented minority investigators who have committed to basic, clinical, and prevention and population-based research careers in cancer. The award will provide an intensive, supervised research experience for underrepresented minority individuals who possess a research or health professional doctoral degree (or its equivalent) to acquire cancer research experience in basic, clinical, prevention and or population sciences with the option to continue with bridging support for their first independent research position. For the purposes of this Program Announcement, underrepresented minority candidates include individuals belonging to particular ethnic, racial and other groups (e.g., first generation college graduates, disabled persons, socio-economically disadvantaged, etc.) determined by the grantee institution to be underrepresented in basic, clinical, and prevention and population-based cancer research.

Description of Project:

The candidate must be able to demonstrate that he/she has been in a mentored position within any research grant equivalent to an NIH peer-reviewed research grant (e.g., research supplement, NIH F31, F32, T32, ACS research grant, etc.). Applicants must have a mentor with extensive research experience in the proposed research area and will, together with the mentor, be responsible for the planning, direction, and execution of a tailored career development plan specific to the applicant's particular career development needs. Candidates must be able to devote at least 75 percent of their professional effort to cancer-related research and peer review activities consistent with the objectives of this award.