Table of IC-Specific Information, Requirements and Staff Contacts
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Expiration Date: January 8, 2018
NIH Institute or Center Contacts | Institute/Center Specific Information |
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National Cancer Institute (NCI) Sergei Radaev, Ph.D Grants Management Contact: | NCI-Specific Information: For Diversity Career Development Awards, please see the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD) at http://crchd.cancer.gov/diversity/cure-overview.html. Additional NCI-specific information/requirements can be found at: http://www.cancer.gov/grants-training/training/funding/K08. Salary Support: Up to the legislative salary cap (/grants/policy/salcap_summary.htm) plus fringe benefits per year. |
National Eye Institute (NEI) Scientific/Research: Neeraj Agarwal, Ph.D. Phone: (301) 451-2020 Email: agarwalnee@mail.nih.gov Grants Management Contact: William W. Darby Phone: (301) 451-2020 Email: wwd@nei.nih.gov | NEI Specific Information: Salary Support: Up to the current legislative cap, plus fringe benefits, per year. The total salary requested must be based on a full-time, 12 month staff appointment for at least 75% effort. Research Support: Up to $25,000 per year. |
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Scientific Program Contact: Drew E. Carlson, PhD Phone: (301) 435-0535 Email: carlsonde@nhlbi.nih.gov Grants Management Contact: Ms. Norma G. DeGuzman Phone: (301) 496-6740 Email: deguzman@nhlbi.nih.gov | NHLBI Specific Information: Application Material: NHLBI suggests that K08 applications include biographical sketches of the collaborators and consultants. |
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Grants Management Contact: | NHGRI Specific Information: Awardees and their mentors are strongly encouraged to attend at least one annual NHGRI trainee networking meeting while supported on the K08. Travel for the awardee and mentor may be requested. Salary Support: Up to the current legislative cap, plus fringe benefits, per year, commensurate with the applicant institution's salary structure for persons of equivalent qualifications, experience, and rank. Research Support: Up to $40,000 per year |
National Institute on Aging (NIA) Scientific Program Contact: Dr. Robin Barr, D.Phil. Phone: (301) 496-9322 Email: BarrR@nia.nih.gov Grants Management Contact: Ms. Traci Lafferty, NIA Phone: (301) 496-1472 Email: laffertt@mail.nih.gov | NIA Specific Information: See: http://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dea/research-training-and-career-award-support . Salary Support: Up to $100,000 plus fringe benefits per year. Research Support: Up to $20,000 per year. |
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Scientific Program Contact: Aaron White, Ph.D. Phone: 301-443-4704 Email: whitea4@mail.nih.gov Grants Management Contact: Judy Fox Phone: (301) Email: jfox@mail.nih.gov | NIAAA Specific Information: NIAAA sponsors a variety of fellowships and career development programs to ensure the training of highly qualified new investigators in alcohol-related research. Career development opportunities under this announcement include mentored research in the social, behavioral, biological and mathematical sciences as related to alcohol abuse and alcoholism.. Salary Support: Up to $100,000 plus fringe benefits per year. Research Support: Up to $50,000 per year. |
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Scientific Program Contact: Shawn Gaillard, Ph.D. Phone: 240-627-3857 Email: GaillardL@niaid.nih.gov Grants Management Contact: Mable Nee Phone: (301) 761-7593 Email: Mable.Nee@nih.gov | NIAID Specific Information: Eligible candidates must have a clinical doctoral degree, current work in biomedical or behavioral research, including translational research, and a professional license to practice in the United States. For more information see the NIAID web page, https://www.niaid.nih.gov/grants-contracts/career-development-awards. NIAID will not accept K-series applications proposing to conduct new, independent clinical trials. Salary Support: Up to $100,000 plus fringe benefits per year. Research Support: Up to $50,000 per year. |
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) Scientific Program Contact: Amanda Taylor Boyce, Ph.D. Phone: 301-594-5055 Email: boycea@mail.nih.gov Grants Management Contact: Yen Thach Phone: (301) 594-3505 Email: thachy@mail.nih.gov | NIAMS Specific Information: Information about NIAMS funding mechanisms is available athttp://www.niams.nih.gov/Funding/Funding_Opportunities/activity_codes.asp. Salary Support: Up to $100,000 plus fringe benefits per year for a minimum of 75% effort (with the exception of orthopaedic surgeons, who may devote a minimum of 50% effort). Research Support: Up to $30,000 per year. |
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Scientific Program Contact: Zeynep Erim, Ph.D. Phone: (301) 451-4797 Email: erimz@mail.nih.gov Grants Management Contact: Florence Turska Phone: (301) 451-4782 Email: turskaf@mail.nih.gov | NIBIB Specific Information: NIBIB will fund K08 awards for 3 or 4 years. Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the Program Director listed on the left to determine if their application is appropriate for a K08 award through the NIBIB. More information on this and other NIBIB Career Awards can be found at http://www.nibib.nih.gov/training-careers/junior-investigator. Salary Support: Up to $105,000 plus fringe benefits per year. Research Support: Up to $40,000 per year. |
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Grants Management Contact: | NICHD Specific Information: NICHD offers fellowships and career development awards in research areas relevant to the institute's scientific objectives. The general mission of NICHD is to ensure that every person is born healthy and wanted, that women suffer no harmful effects from reproductive processes, and that all children have the chance to achieve their full potential for healthy and productive lives. In pursuit of these goals, NICHD supports a broad spectrum of research on normal and abnormal human development, including contraception, fertilization, pregnancy, childbirth, prenatal and postnatal development, and childhood development through adolescence. The mission areas also include research on intellectual and developmental disabilities and rehabilitation medicine. More detailed information can be found at: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/research/by-nichd/pages/index.aspx. NICHD has a 6 year limit of cumulative support on institutional K awards (e.g., K12, KL2) and individual mentored K awards (e.g., K01, K08, K23, K25). Salary Support: Up to $100,000 plus fringe benefits per year. |
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) Scientific Program Contact: Alberto L. Rivera-Rentas, Ph.D. Phone: (301) 451-3245 Email: riverara@nidcd.nih.gov Grants Management Contact: Mr. Christopher Myers Phone: (301) 402-0909 Email: myersc@mail.nih.gov | NIDCD Specific Information: NIDCD uses the K08 program to support individuals with a clinical/health-professional doctorate interested in supervised career development experiences in basic clinical research (not in patient-oriented research) that lead to research independence in biomedical, behavioral, or translational fields.
Salary Support: Up to $100,000 plus fringe benefits per year. |
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) Scientific Program Contact: Lynn Mertens King, Ph.D. Phone: 301-594-5006 Email: lynn.king@nih.gov Grants Management Contact: Dede Rutberg, MBA Grants Management Branch Phone: (301) 594-4798 Email: rutbergd@mail.nih.gov | NIDCR Specific Information: NIDCR sponsors the K08 Career Development Award to ensure training of highly qualified dentists or other clinicians in oral health research relevant to the NIDCR Strategic Plan. The prospective candidate must have a DDS, DMD, MD or other clinical doctoral degree. The award may be used by dentists who wish to pursue a graduate research training program that results in the Ph.D. degree. Health professionals with a doctoral degree may use the award for postdoctoral research training. The intent of this program is to support the development of independent research careers of clinician-scientists. The NIDCR will not provide support for clinical specialty training under this program. Salary Support: Up to $100,000 plus fringe benefits per year. |
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Scientific Program Contact: Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases: Lisa M. Spain, Ph.D. Phone: (301) 451-9871 Email: SpainL@niddk.nih.gov Digestive & Liver Diseases, Nutrition, and Obesity: David E. Saslowsky, Ph.D. Phone: (301) 594-8876 Email: David.Saslowsky@nih.gov Kidney and Urologic Diseases Tracy L. Rankin, Ph.D. Phone: (301) 594-4748 Email: rankint@mail.nih.gov Hematologic Disorders: Terry Rogers Bishop, Ph.D. Phone: (301) 594-7726 Email: BishopT@mail.nih.gov Grants Management Contact: Aricia M. Ajosa, MPA Phone: (301) 594-9023 Email: ajosea@mail.nih.gov | NIDDK Specific Information: The NIDDK wishes to promote the training of physician scientists who, in addition to being excellent clinicians, are excellent researchers. Information on the NIDDK K08 can be found at http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/Funding/TrainingCareerDev/K08.htm. The NIDDK provides further information on all K-award programs on our training and career development web site: http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/Funding/TrainingCareerDev/. Salary Support: Up to $100,000 plus fringe benefits per year. Research Support: Up to $25,000 per year. |
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Scientific Program Contact: Michele Rankin, Ph.D. Phone: (301) 480-3832 Email: NIDA_Training@nida.nih.gov Grants Management Contact: Carol Alderson Phone: (301) 933-6196 Email: ca10h@nih.gov | NIDA Specific Information: Please see NOT-DA-06-013 for information regarding NIDA policies on K-series career development awards. Salary Support: Up to $100,000 plus fringe benefits per year. Research Support: Up to $50,000 per year. |
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Scientific Program Contact: Carol Shreffler, Ph.D. Phone: (919) 541-1445 Email: Shreffl1@niehs.nih.gov Grants Management Contact: Lisa Edwards Phone: (919) 541-0751 Email: archer@niehs.nih.gov | NIEHS Specific Information: Research projects proposed in response to this announcement will be expected to have a defined impact on the environmental health sciences and be directly responsive to the mission of the NIEHS, which is distinguished from that of other Institutes by its focus on research programs seeking to link the effects of environmental exposures to the cause, mechanisms, moderation, or prevention of a human disease or disorder or relevant pathophysiologic process. Examples of environmentally relevant exposures include industrial chemicals or manufacturing byproducts, metals, pesticides, herbicides, air pollutants and other inhaled toxicants, particulates or fibers, fungal, bacterial, or biologically derived toxins. Agents considered non-responsive to this announcement include, but are not limited to: alcohol, chemotherapeutic agents, radiation which is not the result of an ambient environmental exposure, drugs of abuse, smoking , except when the exposure is the result of second-hand exposure in the context of the indoor environment (particularly in children) and infectious or parasitic agents. Ecologic, biomonitoring, biotransformation or biodegradation studies are also not responsive except when these are incidental to an epidemiologic study. Preference will be given to candidates whose mentor has NIEHS research grant support. Salary Support: Up to legislated cap, plus fringe benefits per year. Research Support: Up to $40,000 per year. |
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Scientific Program Contact: Anesthesiology Alison Cole, Ph.D. Phone: 301-594-3827 Email: colea@nigms.nih.gov Clinical Pharmacology Rochelle Long, Ph.D. Phone: 301-594-3827 Email: longr@nigms.nih.gov Sepsis, Innate Immunity and Inflammation Sarah Dunsmore, Ph.D. Phone: 301-594-3827 Email: dunsmores@nigms.nih.gov Trauma and Burn Injury Scott Somers, Ph.D. Phone: 301-594-3827 Email: somerss@nigms.nih.gov Wound Healing Scott Somers, Ph.D. Phone: 301-594-3827 Email: somerss@nigms.nih.gov Grants Management Contact: Erica West Phone: 301- 594 -3917 Email: weste@nigms.nih.gov | NIGMS Specific Information: The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) will accept applications for the K08 in the areas of anesthesiology, clinical pharmacology, sepsis, innate immunity and inflammation, trauma and burn injury, and wound healing research. NIGMS offers the K08 award to support the development of academic physicians (or individuals with comparable clinical training) into independent scientists. The candidate must be in a tenure-track or equivalent position at the time of award. Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact one of the NIGMS staff listed at left early in the preparation of an application. Link to the Career Development Awards section of the NIGMS web page: http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Training/CareerDev/. Additional information on these awards can be found at the NIGMS Web page: http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Training/CareerDev/Pages/MentoredClinicalCareer.aspx. Salary Support: Up to $100,000 plus fringe benefits per year. Research Support: Up to $50,000 per year. |
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Scientific Program Contact: Nancy L Desmond, PhD. Phone: (301) 443-3107 Email: Nancy.Desmond@nih.gov Grants Management Contact: Rebecca Claycamp, MS, CRA Phone: (301) 443-2811 Email: rclaycam@mail.nih.gov | NIMH Specific Information:
Prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to contact Institute career development staff (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/funding/training/contacts-for-research-training-and-career-development-programs.shtml) before preparing an application to discuss the relevance of the proposed research to the Institute's current research priorities and for guidance on the proposed research and career development plans. |
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Scientific Program Contact: Stephen Korn, Ph.D. Phone: (301) 496-4188 Email: korns@ninds.nih.gov Grants Management Contact: Donna James Phone: (301) 496-9231 Email: jamesd@mail.nih.gov | NINDS Specific Information: Candidates for the K08 (other than neurosurgeons) must devote a minimum of 75% full time professional effort to research and career development activities associated with the K award. The letter of institutional commitment should include a description of the candidate's non-research responsibilities according to the following: 1/2 day = 10% of the 5 day workweek, 1 month = 8% of the year, time on call for clinical duty is not protected time for research. Neurosurgeons must devote a minimum of 50% full time professional effort to research and career development activities associated with the K award. The letter of institutional commitment should describe, as above, the specific allocation of time (on a weekly and/or monthly basis) devoted to K award activities and clinical and other non-K award activities. Salary Support: Up to $100,000 plus fringe benefits per year. |
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Scientific Program Contact: JLanay Mudd, PhD Phone: 301-594-9346 Email: lanay.mudd@nih.gov nccihderinquiries@mail.nih.gov Grants Management Contact: Shelley Carow Phone: (301) 594-3788 Email: CarowS@MAIL.NIH.GOV | NCCIH Specific Information:
Salary Support: Up to $100,000 plus fringe benefits per year. |