Training Grants Handout
October 2008
K awards
http://grants.nih.gov/training/careerdevelopmentawards.htm
http://grants.nih.gov/training/K-Awards_Across_ICs.xls
K01: Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) The purpose of the K01
program is to provide support and protected time for an intensive, supervised career
development experience in the biomedical, behavioral, or clinical sciences leading to research
independence.
K02: Independent Scientist Award (K02)
The purpose of the K02 program is to provide protected time for newly independent
scientists who can demonstrate the need for a period of intensive research focus as a
means of enhancing their research careers.
K05: Senior Scientist Research and Mentorship Award (K05)
The purpose of the K05 program is to provide protected time for outstanding senior
scientists who have demonstrated a sustained high level of productivity conducting
biomedical research and to provide mentoring of new investigators.
K07: Academic Career Award (K07)
The purpose of the K07 program is to provide protected time for individuals (both junior
and senior) interested in introducing or improving curricula in a particular scientific
field as a means of enhancing the educational or research capacity at the grantee
institution. (Really a training award)
K08: Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (K08)
The K08 program represents the continuation of a long-standing NIH commitment to
provide protected time to individuals with a clinical doctoral degree for an intensive,
supervised research career development experience in the fields of biomedical and
behavioral research.
K23: Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23)
The purpose of the K23 program is to support the career development of investigators
who have made a commitment to focus their research endeavors on patient-oriented
research.
K99/R00: NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Award (K99/R00)
The purpose of the K99/R00 program is to provide an opportunity for promising
postdoctoral scientists to receive both mentored "K" (Phase 1) and independent "R"
(Phase 2) support from the same award.
K12: Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program Award (K12) (see K-Kiosk)
The K12 program provides support to an institution for the development of independent
scientists. Most, but not all, K12 programs are focused on enhancing the careers of
physician scientists. (We have the BIRCHWH K12 at KU.)
F Awards
http://grants.nih.gov/training/nrsa.htm
F30: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral
MD/PhD Fellows (F30)
Supported by the NIA, NIAAA, NIDA, NIDCD, NIDDK, NIEHS, NIMH, NINDS, and ODS, this
program is intended for individuals in combined M.D./Ph.D. fellowship training. Applicants must
show potential to become productive, independent, highly trained physician-scientists,
including patient-oriented physician-scientists, in scientific mission areas of one or more of the
sponsoring NIH entities.
F31: Predoctoral diversity research fellowship
F32: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Individual
Postdoctoral Fellows (F32)
This is the NIH omnibus postdoctoral fellowship funding opportunity announcement supported
by NIA, NIAAA, NIAID, NIAMS, NIBIB, NCI, NICHD, NIDCD, NIDCR, NIDDK, NIDA, NIEHS,
NEI, NIGMS, NHLBI, NHGRI, NIMH, NINDS, NINR, NCRR, and ODS. The objective of this
program is to provide support to promising postdoctoral applicants who have the potential to
become productive and successful independent research investigators in scientific healthrelated fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers.
Foundations
American Heart Association
Grants for all stages of career development
www.americanheart.org
American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org
Mentored Training and Career Development Grants
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Mentored Research Scholar Grant in Applied and Clinical Research
Cancer Control Career Development Awards for Primary Care Physicians
Physician Training Awards in Preventive Medicine
Doctoral Training Grants in Oncology Social Work
Master's Training Grants in Clinical Oncology Social Work
Doctoral Degree Scholarships in Cancer Nursing
Graduate Scholarships in Cancer Nursing Practice
Career Development awards also available from:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
American Diabetes Association
Doris Duke Foundation
Hartford Foundation
Funding search tools:
Community of Science (www.cos.com)
GrantsNet (www.grantsnet.org)
Foundation Center (www.foundationcenter.org)
InfoEd (www.infoed.org)