Institutional Career Enhancement Awards - Multi-Yr Funding (KM1)

Provides for part time (minimum 25% effort) up to full-time support for medical, scientific, statistics and health care professionals with post-doctoral or equivalent experience selected by an institution, to broaden their research capabilities by acquiring new research skills or knowledge. Further it provides for curriculum development of new programs to support these same types of individuals. This is an institutional mentored career program, not an individual program.

Alert: No NIH awards using this activity code have been made for five or more years.

Organization Eligibility

  • Eligibility: U.S. domestic institutions
Carefully read the Eligibility section of the funding opportunity for opportunity-specific organization eligibility requirements.

Project Director/ Principal Investigator (PD/PI) Eligibility

  • PD/PI U.S. Citizenship Requirement: No
  • Career Stage: Established Investigator
Carefully read the Eligibility section of the funding opportunity for opportunity-specific PD/PI eligibility requirements.

Appointee Eligibility

  • Career Stage: Postdoctorate/Residency, Early Career

Only United States (U.S.) citizens or non-citizen nationals, or individuals lawfully admitted for permanent residence who have a currently valid Permanent Resident Card (USCIS Form I-551), or some other verification of legal admission as a permanent resident prior to admission into the K12 program, are eligible for scholar support from this program.

Carefully read the Eligibility section of the funding opportunity for opportunity-specific Appointee eligibility requirements.

Award Information

  • Funding Instrument: Grant
  • Funding Category: Research Training and Career Development
  • Budget Mechanism Code: OR - Other Research Related
  • Mentored: No
  • Multi-year Funded: Yes


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