Research Career Development Awards

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Salary Caps and Allowable Expenses on NIA Career Awards [2]
Revised NIH Policy Concerning Concurrent Support from Mentored Career Development (K) Award and a Research Grant [3]

Note: NIA has specific guidance on the K01, K02, K07, K08, K23 and K24 awards. Click on the 'Title' of each mechanism for details. NIA no longer participates in the Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program Award (K12) Initiative. For more information, See : NOT-AG-10-004 [4].

MECHANISM FOR POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Mentored Research Career Development Awards are offered to individuals at early stages of their career who wish to become independent investigators.

Number	Title	Description
K99/R00	NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Awards	An early career mechanism for postdoctoral fellows and others with similar standing to facilitate career advancement. PA Number: PA-11-197 [5] Expires: September 8, 2014

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Title

Description

K99/R00

NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Awards

An early career mechanism for postdoctoral fellows and others with similar standing to facilitate career advancement.

PA Number: PA-11-197 [5]
Expires: September 8, 2014

MECHANISMS FOR JUNIOR FACULTY

Note: NIA has specific guidance on the K01 and K23 awards. Click on the 'Title' of each mechanism for details. Salary Caps and Allowable Expenses on NIA Career Awards [2].

Number	Title	Description
K01	Mentored Research Scientist Development Awards [6]	An early or mid-career award for individuals with some prior postdoctoral research experience.
K08	Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Awards [7]	An award for junior clinicians with little-to-moderate research training who wish to become independent clinician-scientists. PA Number: PA-11-193 [8] Expires: September 8, 2014
K23	Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Awards [9]	An award for junior clinicians with little-to-moderate research training who wish to become independent clinician-scientists trained in patient-oriented research.
K25	Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Awards	An award for relatively junior scientists who have been trained in quantitative disciplines who wish to develop their careers in biomedical research. PA Number: PA-11-196 [10] Expires: Septmeber 8, 2014

MECHANISMS FOR ACADEMIC FACULTY

Number	Title	Description
K02	Independent Scientist Awards [11]	An early-to-midcareer award for individuals with prior research grant funding who seek to become leaders in their research fields.
K07	Academic Career Awards [12]	An infrastructure-building award for established senior research leaders who wish to build aging research or an aspect of aging research at their institutions. NIA does not support Developmental K07 Award.
K24	Midcareer Investigator Awards in Patient-Oriented Research [13]	An award for midcareer clinician-scientists who wish to devote more time to patient-oriented research and mentor junior clinicians in patient-oriented research.

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Training [14]