Paul Calabresi Career Development Award for Clinical Oncology (K12)

At the time of the award, the PI must be:

• a citizen of the United States
• or a non citizen national
• or must have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence (i.e., in possession of a currently valid Alien Registration Receipt Card (1-151 or 1-551), or other legal verification of such status).

Established Investigators (Associate and Full Professors)

• Expected to have ongoing R01 and/or R01-like cancer focused grant support (for the K12 Program, R01 and/or R01-like awards are grants or contracts of at least 3 years and $150,000 a year in direct costs, including those supporting clinical trials)

Researchers from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to participate as mentors.

• Expected to have independent R01 and/or R01-like cancer related research support (for the K12 Program, R01 and/or R01-like awards are grants or contracts of at least 3 years and $150,000 a year in direct costs, including those supporting clinical trials)

At the time of the award, the scholar must be:

• a citizen of the United States
• or a noncitizen national
• or must have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence (i.e., in possession of a currently valid Alien Registration Receipt Card (1-151 or 1-551), or other legal verification of such status).

Clinician-scientist Scholars must be:

• Physicians holding the M.D. or D.O. degrees (including those in residency training)
• Pharm.D. recipients
• Nurses with a Ph.D. or equivalent degree

All non-clinical Scholars must have a:

• Doctoral-level degree (e.g., Ph.D.) or the equivalent
• Minimum of 2 years of postdoctoral research training
• Basic research experience that is clearly preparatory (e.g., experience with animal models or preclinical research) for devoting a career to human therapeutic cancer research

Scholars still in residency training must commit a minimum of 6 calendar months (50% of full-time professional effort) to research and career development. All other Scholars must commit a minimum of 9 calendar months (75% of full-time professional effort) to research and career development.

Scholars  who have U.S. Veterans' Administration (VA) appointments may not consider part of the VA effort toward satisfying the "full time" requirement at the applicant institution.

All applications must not exceed $750,000 for direct costs per year.

The first year's direct costs budget is capped at $50,000. This first year is for advertising and recruitment of Scholars, Advisory Board(s) recruitment and meeting, curriculum planning and development, and development of individual Scholar's curricula.

Up to 1.2 person months total effort per annum may be allocated for all PDs/PIs of the K12 program 
to partially offset their salaries and associated fringe benefit costs, depending on commitment of effort 
(https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-16-045.html). 

Salary requests for the Program Faculty/Mentors are not allowed.

In years other than year 1 of a new award, if applicable and justified, up to $26,000 per year may be requested 
to defray the costs of a consultant, Program Administrator, and/or program assistant with responsibilities directly 
associated with the institutional career development program; salaries must be commensurate with institutional 
policy for similar positions and specifically identified and justified. 

Travel for key persons and Advisory Committee members must be justified as specifically required by the proposed 
program and must not duplicate items generally available for similar programs at the applicant institution. 

Travel funds at the rate of $1,500 per person will be provided to defray the travel costs to attend a K-12 community conference (a regular conference voluntarily organized by an institute(s) with an NCI K12 award for the purpose of gathering K12 Scholars and Mentors for exchange of knowledge, career development and networking). https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-CA-20-088.html