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Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award
Program Purpose
The purpose of this program is to prepare clinically trained individuals for careers that have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the Nation. This program provides support and protected time for an intensive, supervised research career development experience in the fields of biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research, including translational research.
PD/PI
Eligibility
Career level
U.S. citizen or permanent resident, with a clinical doctoral degree.
INSTITUTION
Eligibility
U.S. domestic institutions.
Relevant Policy Notices
- NOT-OD-17-094: Clarification and Update: Salary Supplementation and Compensation on Research Career Development (K) Awards
- Frequently Asked Questions Regarding the Usage of Person Months
- New and Early Stage Investigator Policies
- NIH Grants Policy Statement - Research Career Development ("K") Awards
- NIH-NSF Definition of a Postdoctoral Scholar
- NOT-OD-04-007: MENTORED CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARDS: CHANGE IN NIH POLICY CONCERNING CONCURRENT SUPPORT FROM CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD AND A RESEARCH GRANT
- NOT-OD-04-056: Determining Full-Time Professional Effort for Career Awards
- NOT-OD-15-053: Notice of NIHs Interest in Diversity
- NOT-OD-08-065: Revision of NIH Policy Concerning Concurrent Support from Mentored Career Development (K) Award and a Research Grant
- NOT-OD-09-036: NIH Policy Concerning Career Development (K) Awards: Leave, Temporary Adjustments to Percent Effort, and Part-Time Institutional Appointments
- NOT-OD-10-019: Update on the Requirement for Instruction in the Responsible Conduct of Research (NOT-OD-10-019)
- NOT-OD-11-002: Proposal Preparation Costs Allowable as a Direct Charge for Mentored Career Development Awards
- NOT-OD-13-045: Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions on the Implementation of the Recommendations of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director Working Group on the Biomedical Research Workforce
- NOT-OD-15-009: Request for Information (RFI): Physician-Scientist Specific Grant Program to Facilitate the Transition From Training to Independence
- NOT-OD-15-089: Racial and Ethnic Categories and Definitions for NIH Diversity Programs and for Other Reporting Purposes
- NOT-OD-16-004: NIH & AHRQ Announce Upcoming Changes to Policies, Instructions and Forms for 2016 Grant Applications
- NOT-OD-16-012: Implementing Rigor and Transparency in NIH & AHRQ Career Development Award Applications
- NOT-OD-16-024: Notice of Intent to Publish Request for Information: Strategies to Increase Diversity in the Physician-Scientist Workforce
- NOT-OD-16-027: Request for Information (RFI): Strategies to Enhance Diversity in the Physician-Scientist Workforce
- NOT-OD-16-032: New Salary and Research Cost Allowances for K08 and K23 Career Development Awards
Forms and other Guidelines
- FAQs about Applying Electronically
- FAQs about Biosketches
- Organization Registration
- SF424 Application Guide
- Special Instructions for Submitting K22 Applications from Unaffiliated Applicants using the SF424 (R&R)
- How to Write a Grant Application
- Quick Guide for Grant Applications
- Overview of the NIH Grants Process
Currently Supported Investigators
Search for currently supported investigators using NIH RePORTER
Program Data, Outcomes and Evaluations
- Evaluation of the NIH Individual Mentored Career Development Awards Program (2011)
- Feasibility, Design and Planning Study for Evaluating the NIH Career Development Awards (Westat, 2007)
- NIH Statement in Response to the NAS Report, Addressing the Nation's Changing Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists (NIH, 2001)
- Review of the NIH Biomedical Research Training Program (NIH, 1989)
- Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads (National Academies Press, 2011)
- Research Training in the Biomedical, Behavioral, and Clinical Research Sciences (National Academies Press, 2011)
- Addressing the Nation's Changing Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists (National Academies Press, 2000)
- Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists (National Academies Press, 1998)
- Science & Engineering Indicators
- Science and Engineering Doctorate Awards
- Research Career Development Awards: Competiting applications, awards and success rates
- Research Career Development Awards
- Research Career Development Awards: Total funding and average size
- Individual Career Development Awards: Number of entry-level awards
- Trends in K Awards: Research Career Development Awards by Institute/Center FY 2010 - 2014
- Trends in K Awards: Research Career Development Awards by Institute/Center FY 2003 - 2009
- Trends in K Awards: Individual Research Career Development Awards by Institute/Center
- Trends in K Awards: Individual Research Career Development Awards: Funding by Institute/Center, sorted by average amount