Career
Development Awards
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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.
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