Notice Number: NOT-AI-19-061

Key Dates
Release Date: July 15, 2019

Issued by
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Purpose

This notice replaces NOT-AI-17-015 and revises the Institute’s K01 submission policy.

Beginning with the October 12, 2019 application due date and beyond, NIAID will support Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01) (PA-19-126 and its reissues) only in the areas of epidemiology and data science*. This includes but is not limited to computational modeling, bioinformatics, big data and advanced statistical analyses in the prevention, treatment, discovery, prediction or forecasting of infectious, immunologic and/or allergic diseases. A predominance of the specific aims proposed must be in one or more of these research area(s).

* NIH defines data science as the interdisciplinary field of inquiry in which quantitative and analytical approaches, processes, and systems are developed and used to extract knowledge and insights from increasingly large and/or complex sets of data.

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

Shawn Drew Gaillard, Ph.D.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Telephone: 240-627-3857
Email: Shawn.Gaillard@nih.gov