Research Career Development Awards

-Salary Caps and Allowable Expenses on NIA Career Awards
-Revised NIH Policy Concerning Concurrent Support from Mentored Career Development (K) Award and a Research Grant

Note: NIA has specific guidance on the K01, K02, K07, K12, K23 and K24 awards. Click on the 'Title' of each mechanism for details.

Number	Title	Description
K99/R00	NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Awards	An early career mechanism for postdoctoral fellows and others with similar standing to facilitate career advancement. PA Number: PA-09-036 Expires: January 8, 2012
K01	Mentored Research Scientist Development Awards	An early or midcareer award for individuals with some prior postdoctoral research experience.
K02	Independent Scientist Awards	An early-to-midcareer award for individuals with prior research grant funding who seek to become leaders in their research fields.
K07	Academic Career Awards	An infrastructure-building award for established senior research leaders who wish to build aging research or an aspect of aging research at their institutions. NIA does not support Developmental K07 Award.
K08	Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Awards	An award for junior clinicians with little-to-moderate research training who wish to become independent clinician-scientists. PA Number: PA-09-042 Expires: January 8, 2012
K12	Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program Awards	An award for research leaders to provide research training and mentoring to several junior clinicians who wish to become independent researchers.
K23	Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Awards	An award for junior clinicians with little-to-moderate research training who wish to become independent clinician-scientists trained in patient-oriented research.
K24	Midcareer Investigator Awards in Patient-Oriented Research	An award for midcareer clinician-scientists who wish to devote more time to patient-oriented research and mentor junior clinicians in patient-oriented research.
K25	Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Awards	An award for relatively junior scientists who have been trained in quantitative disciplines who wish to develop their careers in biomedical research. PA Number: PA-09-039 Expires: January 8, 2012
K26	Midcareer Investigator Awards in Mouse Pathobiology Research	An award for midcareer scientists who have experience in mouse pathobiology research who wish to devote more time to this research and mentor junior scientists in mouse pathobiology research. Expires: January 8, 2012 PA Number: PAR-09-053