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 NIAID
offers the following career
development awards, which enable scientists with diverse backgrounds
to enhance their careers in biomedical research.
Keep in mind that except for the K99/R00, all K awards require either U.S. citizenship or permanent residency status (Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form I-551). People on temporary or student visas are not eligible.
-
Mentored
Research Scientist Development Award (K01) -- To
qualify, you need to be a clinician or Ph.D. in
the fields of epidemiology and outcomes research and must
have accomplished independent research experience after earning
your degree.
- Independent Scientist Award (K02) -- You're eligible if you have a doctoral degree and your own research project grant (R01 or equivalent). Most successful candidates are assistant professors or just-promoted associate professors.
- Mentored
Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08) -- To
qualify, you'll need current
work in basic research, a clinical doctoral
degree such as M.D., D.V.M., or O.D., and a
professional license to practice in the United States (see the March 31, 2008 Guide notice).
- Research
Scholar Development Award (K22) -- You must be a postdoctoral
scientist with no more than five years
of research experience, and who works on an NIAID training
grant (T32) or in a laboratory supported
by an NIAID research grant or cooperative agreement,
has an individual fellowship (F32),
is hired on a research
supplement to promote diversity, or is employed by an
NIAID intramural laboratory,
with plans to apply for an assistant professorship
at an academic institution.
See Advice
for Applicants for more
information.
- Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) -- You're eligible if you have a clinical doctorate and perform research that requires direct work with patients.
- Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (K24) -- To qualify, you must be an established clinician or Ph.D. who is committed to patient-oriented research and has concurrent research support, such as R01, clinical trial or pharmaceutical company funding, or the equivalent. Apply for a K24 if you want to mentor or teach young scientists engaged in clinical research. You should have completed clinical training within the past 15 years, although NIAID allows some flexibility on this requirement.
- Mentored
Quantitative Research Development Award (K25) --
You should be a junior faculty member with an advanced degree
in engineering or quantitative science, such as Ph.D. or M.S.E.E.
Former principal
investigators on NIH research projects or subprojects and
previous recipients of certain awards are not eligible; see
the program announcement for a complete list of exclusions.
- NIH
Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) --
To qualify, you must have a clinical or research doctorate and
no more than five years of
postdoctoral
research
training
at
the
time
of application. You do not have to be a U.S. citizen
or a permanent U.S. resident. However, you should have a
visa that allows you to remain in this country long enough
to: 1)
move to an independent research career during the K99 phase,
and 2) be productive on the research project for the duration
of
the R00 phase. See our Pathway to Independence Awards (K99/R00) SOP.
To help you decide which award best suits your needs, use NIH's
visual guides to career development awards for people with research
doctorates and health-professional
doctorates.
During the last two years of a mentored career development
award (K01, K08, K22, K23, K25), NIH will permit you to receive concurrent salary support from any peer-reviewed grant from any federal agency, if you meet the following criteria:
- You are a PI
on a competing research project grant, or director of a subproject on a multi-component
grant, from NIH or another Federal agency.
- Your K award is active.
Under those circumstances, you may reduce your K award's time and effort to six person months.
NIAID supports K01
and K02 awards in epidemiology and outcomes research. NIAID will not accept K-series applications proposing to conduct new,
independent clinical trials. For more information, read the March 28, 2008, Guide notice.
Note on effort requirement: Except for the K24,
K awards require you to spend a minimum amount of
your full-time effort, generally nine person months,
on the research supported
by the award
and have a full-time appointment at the organization applying for
the grant. You can now meet the effort requirement with your full-time
position while simultaneously holding another position part-time.
An example illustrates how this works: An
investigator with a full-time appointment at a university and a
half-time position at a clinical practice can qualify because he
or she can commit at least nine person months of the full-time position
to the award.
Note that NIH now uses person months to measure effort. See Person Months Calculation Example for more information.
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