NIAID Career Development Awards and Review

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NIAID Career Development Awards and Review

• Gary S. Madonna, Ph.D.
• Scientific Review Administrator
• Scientific Review Program
• Division of Extramural Activities
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
  Diseases
• NIH, DHHS

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Where are applications reviewed?

• CSR
• Study Sections

• Research Project Grants (R01s)
• AREA Grants (R15s)
• Fellowships (F32s F31s)
• SBIRs
• Shared Instrumentation Grants
• Small Grants (R03s)
• Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21s)

• INSTITUTES
• Scientific Rev. Grps.
• Contract Rev. Ctees.

• Program Project Grants (P01s)
• Center Grants (P30s)
• Training Grants (T32s)
• K Grants
• RFAs (some of which will be for R01s)
• Contracts

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NIAID has 3 Standing (chartered) Review
Committees

• Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Research
  Committee (MIDRC)
• Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation Research
  Committee (AITRC)
• AIDS Research Review Committee (AIDSRRC)

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Factors Considered in Selection of Committee
Members

• Scientific experience and expertise
• Training interest and experience
• MD/PH.D mix (clinical/research)
• Gender and Minority representation
• Geographic distribution

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K Mechanisms Supported by NIAID

• Career Development Awards
• Mentored Awards
• K01- Mentored Research Scientist Development
  Award (started in 2004)
• K08- Mentored Clinical Scientist Development
  Award
• K23- Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career
  Development Award
• K25- Mentored Quantitative Research Career
  Development Award
• Research Scholar Development Award (K22)
• Independent Scientist Award (K02)
• Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented
  Research (K24)

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R03
Diversity Supplements
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Overall, reviewers look for

• Eligibility and right stage of career for the
  award (different for each type of K award)
• Use NIAID website to assess different mechanisms
  
• http//www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/training/advice/caree
  r_dev.htm

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Mentored Awards (K01, K08, K23, K25)

• Candidate
• Mentor
• Career Development Plan
• Research Plan
• Environment and Institutional Commitment
• Overall, looking for the outstanding candidate
  with
• The mentor
• The career development plan
• The research plan
• At the place to get it all done so that the
  awardee will become fully competitive for an R01

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Research Scholar Development Award (K22)

• The purpose of the RSDA is to ease the transition
  to an academic position by enabling the recipient
  to focus on the establishment of his/her research
  laboratory prior to submitting applications for
  grant support.
• Applicants must be either
• postdoctoral fellows in an NIAID intramural
  laboratory,
• postdoctoral trainees supported by an NIAID
  Institutional NRSA training grant (T32) or an
  NIAID Individual NRSA postdoctoral fellowship
  (F32), or
• postdoctoral trainees supported by NIAID Research
  Supplements for Underrepresented Minorities
  (RSUMs).
• This is a two-phase award

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Independent Scientist Award (K02)

• For newly independent scientists who can
  demonstrate the need for a period of intensive
  research focus as a means of enhancing their
  research careers. This award is intended to
  foster the development of outstanding scientists
  and enable them to expand their potential to make
  significant contributions to their field of
  research.
• Youre eligible if you have a doctoral degree and
  your own research project grant (R01 or
  equivalent)
• Most successful candidates are assistant
  professors or just-promoted associate professors

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Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented
Research (K24)

• For established clinicians or Ph.D.s committed to
  patient-oriented research
• Must have concurrent support
• Should have completed clinical training within
  past 15 years
• Apply if you want to mentor young scientists
  engaged in clinical research
• Only NIAID K award that is renewable

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Add on (no extra charge)Loan Repayment Programs

• To encourage retention of health professionals
  (i.e. physicians) in research
• NIH is aware of high medical school debt levels
• Up to 35,000 in eligible debt taxes
• 2 year contract
• Must devote 50 of time to research for the next
  two yrs
• http//www.lrp.nih.gov/
• Deadline- Dec 31st

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NIAID Loan Repayment Programs

• Pediatric LRP
• For basic or clinical research
• PhDs or DVMs have to make a very strong case

• Clinical LRP
• For clinical research
• Clinical means conducted with human subjects
  or where there is direct interaction with human
  subjects

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• We must not cease from exploration.
• And the end of all our exploring
• Will be to arrive where we began,
• And to know the place,
• For the first time.
• T. S. Eliot