Career-Level Training Opportunities & Resources
Career Transition Programs
Basic Career Development Programs
Clinical Career Development Programs
Other Programs
NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Award (K99/R00)
The Pathway to Independence (PI) program, targeted to applicants with no more than
five years of postdoctoral research experience who have made a commitment to an
academic career but who do not currently have an independent faculty position, provides
two phases of support. The first phase provides one to two years of mentored support
for highly promising, postdoctoral researchers in biomedical imaging and bioengineering.
The second phase, contingent upon the procurement of an independent research position
and internal administrative review, will provide up to three years of independent
research support.
Applicants from medical schools should be aware that the instructor position is
not considered equivalent to the assistant professor position required to transition
to the independent phase of this award. Although instructors are typically eligible
to apply for the dependent phase of the K99/R00 award, applications from medical
schools are strongly encourage to contact Dr. Zeynep
Erim before applying.
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Career Reentry Supplements to Research Grants
Supplements to Promote Reentry into Biomedical and Behavioral Research Careers provide
supplemental funds to existing NIH research grants to support individuals with high
potential to reenter an active research career after taking time off to attend to
family responsibilities. It is anticipated that at the completion of the supplement,
the reentry scientist will be in a position to apply for a career development (K)
award, a research award, or some other form of independent research support. Please
contact Dr. Zeynep Erim if you plan to submit
a Career Re-entry Supplement Application.
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Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)
The Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) provides support for a sustained
period of “protected time” for intensive research career development
under the guidance of an experienced mentor, or sponsor, leading to research independence.
The expectation is that through this sustained period of research career development
and training, awardees will launch independent research careers and become competitive
for new research project grant (R01) funding. NIBIB uses this mechanism to provide
a mentored training period for individuals who wish to obtain experience and skills
in an area different from their doctoral and/or post-doctoral research focus. Applicants
are encouraged to contact Dr. Zeynep Erim
to verify eligibility before preparing applications.
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Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K25)
The Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Awards (K25) provides support
for research-oriented quantitative scientists and engineers with little or no experience
in medicine and the life sciences to develop relevant research skills that
will allow them to conduct basic or clinical biomedical imaging or bioengineering
research and to become independent investigators, playing leading roles in multi-disciplinary
research teams. Examples of quantitative scientific and technical backgrounds
considered appropriate for this award include, but are not limited to: mathematics,
statistics, economics, computer science, imaging science, informatics, physics,
chemistry, and engineering.
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Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08)
The Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08) provides support and "protected
time" for an intensive, supervised research career development experience to
individuals with a clinical doctoral degree (e.g., M.D., D.D.S., D.M.D., D.O., D.C.,
O.D., N.D., D.V.M., Pharm.D., or Ph.D. in clinical disciplines) committed to a career
in laboratory or clinically-based research in biomedical imaging and bioengineering.
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Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23)
Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Awards (K23) provide support
for research-oriented clinicians to develop independent research skills and gain
experience in advanced methods and experimental approaches needed to become an independent
investigator conducting patient-oriented research. It is the specific goal of these
awards to increase the pool of clinical researchers who can conduct patient-oriented
studies, capitalizing on the discoveries of biomedical research and translating
them to clinical settings. For the purposes of this award, patient-oriented research
is defined as 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).
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Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15)
Academic Research Enhancement Awards (AREA) support biomedical research projects
conducted by faculty in academic institutions that have not been major recipients
of NIH research awards. These grants are intended to create a research opportunity
for scientists and institutions otherwise unlikely to participate extensively in
NIH programs to support the Nation’s biomedical research effort. It is anticipated
that investigators supported under the AREA program will benefit from the opportunity
to conduct independent research; that the grantee institution will benefit from
a research environment strengthened through AREA grants; and that available students
will benefit from exposure to and participation in research in the biomedical and
behavioral sciences.
For projects proposing collaborations with non-AREA-eligible institutions, NIBIB
expects that the majority of the direct costs will be directed to the applicant
institution. Applcants are strongly encouraged to contact Dr. Zeynep Erim before
submitting their applications.
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NIH Summer Research Experience Programs (R25)
NIBIB supports NIH Summer Research Experience Programs (R25) only for high school
science teachers and community college faculty from STEM-related departments. The
goal of this program is to enhance the skills of science teachers and enable them
to more effectively communicate the nature of the scientific process to their students.
NIBIB requires that host institutions put in place a rigorous admission procedure
where the applicant high school teachers and community college faculty communicate
with participating mentors during the school year preceding the summer of the proposed
internship. The applicants should thus develop the project that will be accomplished
during the summer and specifically indicate how this experience will inform their
classes when they go back to their institutions. Participants in the summer program
should be chosen based on these proposals. NIBIB further requires that the R25 host
institutions include in their progress reports information on the summer projects
carried out by the participants as well as a follow-up evaluation of how their participation
in the program affected their careers or teaching. Project Director/Principal Investigator
salaries are not allowed.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact Dr.
Zeynep Erim prior to preparing applications.
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Last Updated On 02/13/2013