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Clinical Scientist Institutional Career Development Program Award
Program Purpose
The purpose of this program is to support institutional career development awards designed to prepare newly-trained clinicians who have made a commitment to independent research careers, and to facilitate their transition to more advanced support mechanisms, e.g., K08 and K23.
APPOINTEE
Eligibility
Career level
U.S. citizen or permanent resident with research or clinical doctoral degree.
PD/PI
Eligibility
Career level
Established investigator capable of providing administrative and scientific leadership.
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
- 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-07-087: New FAQs for Recruitment and Retention Plan to Enhance Diversity, and for Policies Related to Parental Leave and Child Care
- 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-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-15-091: Clarifying Publication Reporting Instructions for Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPR) and Renewal Applications
- NOT-OD-15-112: Advance Notice: NIH Anticipates Transition to New Research Training Data Table Formats in FY 2016
- NOT-OD-15-126: ASSIST Now an Option for Institutional Training and Career Development (Ts and K12), Other Training Grants (Ds) and Various Research Applications
- NOT-OD-16-004: NIH & AHRQ Announce Upcoming Changes to Policies, Instructions and Forms for 2016 Grant Applications
- NOT-OD-16-007: NIH & AHRQ Announce Transition to New Research Training Table Formats for 2016 and Upcoming Release of the xTRACT System
- 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
Forms and other Guidelines
- Statement of Appointment Forms
- 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
- 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