T32- Institutional
Award
To enable institutions to make NRSA awards
to individuals for predoctoral and post-doctoral research training in
specified areas. For guidance on active awards, please see Training
Grant Policies at NIA.
For more information:
See NIH
NATIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE AWARD INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH TRAINING
GRANTS (T32)
Release Date: May 16, 2002
PA NUMBER:
PA-02-109
**Note that the National Institute on Aging accepts
institutional training grant applications (T32) on a single receipt date
each year (May 10).
T32- Complementary Training Award for Research on
Aging
To assist NIH-supported research training
programs to train investigators for careers in aging research through an
additional training program supported by the NIA.
For more information:
See NATIONAL
INSTITUTE ON AGING INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING AWARDS (T32)
Release
Date: February 10, 2000
PA NUMBER: PA-00-057
T32- Cofunded
Training Slots
To fill approved unfunded
training positions on other NIH-supported institutional research training
grants, with foci for each position limited to specified disciplines and
fields that are highly relevant to aging research.
For more information:
Contact the NIA Training Officer.
T34- MARC
Undergraduate NRSA Institutional Grants
To
enable minority institutions to make National Research Service Awards to
individuals selected by them for undergraduate research training in the
biomedical and behavioral sciences.
For more information:
See MARC
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT TRAINING IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH (U-STAR) PROGRAM
(T34)
Application Receipt Date: January 10 and May 10
Release Date: December 6, 2001
PA NUMBER:
PAR-02-033
T35- Short-Term Training: Students in Health Professional
Schools
NOTE: NIA uses this mechanism
exclusively to provide short-term research experiences for students
enrolled in doctoral health professional degree programs.
For more information:
See NATIONAL
RESEARCH SERVICE AWARD SHORT-TERM INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH TRAINING GRANTS
(T35)
Release Date: March 27, 1998
NOTICE: NOT98-027
T36- MARC Ancillary
Training Activities
To increase the number of
well-trained minority scientists in biomedical disciplines and to
strengthen the research and teaching capabilities of minority
institutions through a variety of training mechanisms, such as visits by
experienced scientists to minority institutions or workshops designed to
enhance research training for students/faculty from minority
institutions.
For more information:
See MINORITY
ACCESS TO RESEARCH CAREERS (MARC) ANCILLARY TRAINING ACTIVITIES
GRANTS T36
Release Date: April 20, 1999
PA NUMBER: PAR-99-091
F31- Predoctoral
Fellowships
To encourage underrepresented minorities
and students with disabilities to pursue research doctoral degrees, thus fulfilling
the goal of increasing the number of minorities and people with
disabilities trained for careers in biomedical research.
For more information:
See NIH
PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AWARDS FOR MINORITY STUDENTS (F31)
Release Date: February 24, 2000
PA NUMBER: PA-00-069
See NIH
PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AWARDS FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES (F31)
Release Date: February 24, 2000
PA NUMBER:
PA-00-068
F32- Postdoctoral Individual Award
To
provide postdoctoral research training to individuals to broaden their
scientific backgrounds and extend their potential for research in
specified health-related areas.
For more information:
See NATIONAL
RESEARCH SERVICE AWARDS FOR INDIVIDUAL POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS (F32)
Release Date: June 1, 2000
PA NUMBER: PA-00-104
F33- Senior
Fellow
To provide opportunities for experienced scientists to make major
changes in research careers, to broaden scientific background, and to
acquire new research capabilities.
For more information:
See NIH
NATIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE AWARDS FOR SENIOR FELLOWS (F33)
Release Date: August 28, 2000
PA NUMBER: PA-00-131
K01 — Mentored Research
Scientist Development Award.
The K01 mechanism serves two distinct purposes. One purpose
is "career-change". An investigator who may be anything from fairly junior
to senior wishes to redirect his or her career. Appropriate peer review
questions include whether this is a substantial redirection, and whether
the redirection is appropriate given the candidate's current background
and experience. The other purpose is "career enhancement". A relatively
junior investigator can apply for an additional period of supervised
research experience. It can be in the same field that the individual
trained, but must include a plan to expand substantially the range of
skills that the individual possesses. Unlike a postdoctoral fellowship,
the investigator must have already demonstrated the capacity for
productive work following the doctorate and the institution sponsoring the
investigator must treat the individual as a faculty member.
At the present time NIA does not limit the research areas
that may be supported through the K01. However, individuals considering
applying for this award are strongly encouraged to contact Institute staff
to determine interest in the research area.
For more information:
See MENTORED
RESEARCH SCIENTIST DEVELOPMENT AWARD IN AGING
(K01)
Release Date: December 2, 1999
PA NUMBER:
PA-00-019
K02 — Independent Scientist Award
The Independent Scientist award can be captured as the "time
off teaching" or "time off clinical duties" award. A frequent review
concern arises when an applicant applies who is a full-time researcher. As
the K02 is intended to enable an investigator to concentrate on building
her or his research career it appears that someone who is engaged in
research full-time is in a position to do that without further support. An
investigator in such a position must justify the time by identifying
career development activities that would not be possible via normal
research grant funding. In contrast, an investigator who is in a
conventional academic position or who has clinical or administrative
duties can show the need for the award by identifying how it allows
time-off from these other duties. Typical activities during a K02 include
time spent developing collaborative relationships with other investigators
and laboratories and time spent acquiring skills or additional
training.
The K02 provides money for salary but does not provide funds
to do research. These funds have to come from another research grant. In
fact, the K02 requires that the individual have a research grant (such as
an R01) to cover these costs before it is awarded.
A K02 candidate is expected to have had prior success in
obtaining independent (R01-type) funding and yet not be so senior that the
protected time is unnecessary. The K02 does allow the person to
concentrate on building up her/his research career. A typical transition
would be for an individual to move from the smallish R01-while-holding- a-
teaching- load category to multiple R01s or a close-to-full-time research
role after the award is over.
A common misconception about the K02 is that it requires a
training component. It does not. There is no mentor for a K02. The
candidate can choose course work as part of the career development plan
but, with the exception of a requirement to participate in "courses
related to instruction in the responsible conduct of research", there is
no formal training requirement. Nor is "acquiring new research skills" the
necessary end product of this award. Instead the award is intended to
allow highly promising individuals the protected time to establish
themselves as leaders in their own field. The application is judged by how
promising the applicant is, the need for the protected time, and, of
course, what the candidate intends to do with the protected time.
For more information:
See INDEPENDENT
SCIENTIST AWARD (K02)
Release Date: December 2, 1999
PA
NUMBER: PA-00-020
K07 — Academic Career award
The February 2000 NIH program announcement on the Academic
Career award describes two kinds. The first is the "Development" K07. NIA
does not support the Development K07. If we receive such applications we
recode them as K08s. The two mechanisms are very similar. The second type
of K07 is the "Leadership" award. It is best described as an "organizer"
award. Its purpose is to allow a senior individual the resources needed to
enhance the institution's capacity to do relevant research on some aspect
of aging at an institution. We do support the leadership K07. One issue
that sometimes arises in review of K07s is whether the award allows salary
for a "research coordinator" to assist the principal investigator in
development activities on campus. The program announcement guidelines
indicate that research support costs may be provided at the discretion of
the Institute but that salary for ancillary personnel support is not
allowed.
NIA does provide research support costs. When is a research
coordinator "ancillary personnel support" (not allowable) and when is that
person "research support" (allowable)?
Some Guidelines:
When the cost is likely allowable: Where the individual has
a substantive role on the project, i.e., participates in decision-making,
has own record of accomplishment, adds a skill or extends the skills of
the P.I.
When the cost is likely not allowable: If the individual
performs secretarial or administrative support; if the individual is
clearly a technician rather than contributing ideas to the work.
For more information:
See ACADEMIC
CAREER AWARD (K07)
Release Date: February 24, 2000
PA
NUMBER: PA-00-070
K08 — Mentored Clinical Scientist Development
Award
The K08 is an award for "aspiring clinician-scientists" (see
also the K23 mechanism below). In other words it allows individuals who
have received clinical training a sufficient length of time to acquire
training and experience in research. People who are eligible include
clinicians with little or no research experience as well as those who
already have a few years of research experience. It is possible for a
clinician to be supported under a K08 while acquiring a Ph.D. or other
research degree. Clearly the career development plan is a crucial part of
this review. For junior clinicians with little or no research experience,
the career development plan must be very detailed and reassure reviewers
that the individual will acquire sufficient training to become a research
scientist.
For more information:
See MENTORED
CLINICAL SCIENTIST DEVELOPMENT AWARD (K08)
Release Date:
October 8, 1999
PA NUMBER: PA-00-003
K12 — Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program
Award
The K12 is an institutional K08 or K23. In other words the
grantee (and not the NIA) selects appointees for individual slots on the
K12. Each appointee receives the equivalent of a K08 or K23, i.e., salary
and research expenses, to train as a research scientist. As the review
committee does not necessarily see the background of individual
candidates, a lot of weight is given to the qualifications of the program
director and to the capabilities of the institution to provide the
research and training experiences necessary for clinicians to become
research scientists. The application must also document that there is a
highly qualified pool of candidates, and that recruitment procedures are
in place that will ensure a continuing stream of highly qualified and
diverse candidates. NIA caps K12 awards at $500,000 in total direct costs
per year.
For more information:
See MENTORED
CLINICAL SCIENTIST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AWARD (K12)
Release
Date: March 11, 2002
PA NUMBER: PAR-02-076
K23 — Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development
Award
The K23 is a mechanism designed to increase human resources
for patient-oriented research. It is similar to the K08 in that it is
designed to train aspiring clinician-scientists to become independent
researchers. However the major difference is that an investigator who uses
this mechanism must focus on patient-oriented research. NIA allows up to
$25,000 in research development support per year for this program.
However, exceptions are considered when justified, up to $50,000 per
year.
The definition of patient-oriented research that is used in
this announcement is:
"Research conducted with human subjects (or on
material of human origin such as tissues, specimens, and cognitive
phenomena) for which an investigator directly interacts with human
subjects. This area of research includes: 1) mechanisms of human disease;
2) therapeutic interventions; 3) clinical trials, and; 4) the development
of new technologies."
For more information:
See MENTORED
PATIENT-ORIENTED RESEARCH CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD
(K23)
Release Date: October 8, 1999
PA NUMBER:
PA-00-004
K24 — Mid-career
Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research
The K24 announcement is a mechanism designed both to build
human resources in patient-oriented research and to increase
patient-oriented research. Clinical researchers who are generally no more
than 15 years beyond their specialty training, and who have active
research support, may use the award to take time off clinical or
administrative duties. These mid-career investigators are expected to have
a track-record in patient-oriented research, to pursue patient-oriented
research, and to mentor junior clinicians in patient-oriented
research.
Although the award does require the investigator to describe
a research plan, in fact, the research plan can be a description of the
investigator's currently funded research. Reviewers will examine such a
plan to determine whether the research is a suitable vehicle for
demonstrating skills and capabilities in patient-oriented research to
junior clinicians. The investigator may propose new research. However,
only $25,000 is allowed in research development costs and these same
dollars must be used to support mentoring activities (see below).
Therefore the additional research proposed in this application cannot be
resource intensive.
The investigator is required to propose mentoring activities
to increase the pool of clinicians who can conduct patient-oriented
research and who can translate the findings of basic biomedical research
into clinical settings. The research development expenses can be used to
support research expenses of the junior clinicians as well as travel to
scientific meetings or training.
The NIH definition of patient-oriented research given in
this announcement is:
"Research conducted with human subjects (or on
material of human origin such as tissues, specimens, and cognitive
phenomena) for which an investigator directly interacts with human
subjects. This area of research includes: 1) mechanisms of human disease;
2) therapeutic interventions; 3) clinical trials, and; 4) the development
of new technologies."
For more information:
See MIDCAREER
INVESTIGATOR AWARD IN PATIENT-ORIENTED RESEARCH
(K24)
Release Date: October 8, 1999
PA NUMBER:
PA-00-005
K25 — Mentored Quantitative
Research Career Development Award
This award program targets early career through mid-career quantitatively trained scientists. Examples of relevant specialties
include: mathematics, statistics, computer science, informatics, physics,
chemistry, and engineering. The award allows these individuals three to
five years of salary support and research development expenses to work
with a mentor or mentors in the biomedical or behavioral sciences. The
object is to allow these quantitatively trained researchers to use the
interdisciplinary training so obtained either to develop independent
research projects in the health sciences or to work as part of an
interdisciplinary team focused on health sciences. The intent is that this
infusion of researchers with a quantitative specialization will inform new
directions in the biomedical and behavioral sciences.
For more information:
See MENTORED
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD
(K25)
Release Date: July 10, 2002
PA NUMBER:
PA-02-127
K26 — Midcareer
investigator award in mouse pathobiology research
The Midcareer Investigator Award in Mouse Pathobiology
Research provides support to established pathobiologists to allow them
protected time to devote to mouse pathobiology research and to act as
mentors for beginning investigators. The target candidates are outstanding
scientists engaged in pathobiology research who are within 15 years of
their specialty training, who can demonstrate the need for a period of
intensive research focus as a means of enhancing their research careers,
and who are committed to mentoring the next generation of mouse
pathobiologists. The award is intended to further the research and
mentoring endeavors of outstanding mouse pathobiologists, enable them to
expand their potential to make significant contributions to their field of
research, and to act as mentors for beginning investigators. NIA
cosponsors this announcement with the National Center for Research
Resources. NIA is particularly interested in supporting investigators who
focus on pathobiologies related to aging.
For more information:
See MIDCAREER
INVESTIGATOR AWARD IN MOUSE PATHOBIOLOGY RESEARCH
(K26)
Release Date: March 7, 2001
PA NUMBER:
PAR-01-064
Salary caps and allowable expenses on career development
awards
NIA has recently announced an increase in the salary cap for
certain career award mechanisms. See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not99-118.html.
This change became effective with awards issued in FY 2001 and beyond.
The amounts that NIA allows for salary and research expenses
are shown below.
| Number |
Salary & Research
Expenses |
| K01, K08 |
Beginning in FY 2001, for salary, NIA allows up to
$75,000 (and appropriate fringe benefits) for a minimum of 75%
effort in all years of the award. NIA allows $20,000
for research and research development expenses. |
| K02 |
Allowable salary is the same as for K01 and K08
awards and, like these awards, increased to $75,000 in FY 2001. No
research expenses are allowed. NIA does allow up to $5,000 to cover
the cost of tuition and educational materials. |
| K07 |
For P.I. salary NIA allows up to $50,000. NIA limits
direct costs to $100,000 per year. |
| K12 |
Beginning in FY 2001 $75,000 in salary is allowed for no more than 60% of authorized slots in any one year,
and no more than five total slots. A $60,000 limit applies to remaining slots. NIA provides up to $20,000 per year
for research and research development expenses for up to five slots
and no more than $10,000 per year for remaining slots. |
| K23 |
For salary, up to $75,000 is allowed for a
minimum of 75% effort. In individual cases this cap may be adjusted.
Up to $25,000 is allowed for research development costs. However the
announcement allows up to $50,000 in exceptional cases. |
| K25 |
For salary, up to $75,000 is allowed for a
minimum of 75% effort. An additional amount up to $40,000 per year
is allowed for tuition, fees and books, research expenses and
research development expenses. |
| K24, K26 |
The allowable costs on the K24 and K26 mechanisms are set by NIH rather than by NIA.
For salary, up to $87,850 is allowed for between 25% and 50% effort. For research development
expenses an additional $25,000 is allowed for K26 awards and an additional $50,000 is allowed for K24 awards.
The allowable costs are described in more detail in the announcements: MIDCAREER INVESTIGATOR AWARD IN
PATIENT-ORIENTED RESEARCH and MIDCAREER INVESTIGATOR AWARD IN MOUSE PATHOBIOLOGY RESEARCH
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