Child Health Research Career Development Award (CHRCDA) Program K12 | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The Child Health Research Career Development Award (CHRCDA) Program K12 is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant opportunity issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to strengthen the pipeline of pediatric physician-scientists in the United States. The central goal is to fund institutional, mentored career development programs that help junior faculty members in pediatrics and pediatric subspecialties make the difficult jump from completing clinical training to becoming independent, productive researchers. In practical terms, the award is designed to give early-career pediatric clinicians protected time, structured mentoring, and a research training environment that positions them to compete successfully for independent NIH and other research funding later on.

This opportunity uses the NIH K12 mechanism, meaning the award is made to an institution rather than directly to individual scholars. The institution then runs a formal career development program and appoints multiple “scholars” (typically junior faculty) who receive supervised research training and mentorship through that program. The focus is explicitly on mentored development: scholars are expected to build research skills, publish, develop a research trajectory, and progress toward research independence while being guided by experienced investigators. The training and research supported under this program must be relevant to pediatrics and its subspecialties, aligning with NICHD’s mission in child health and human development.

Funding for this specific announcement (Funding Opportunity Number RFA-HD-10-007) was posted in April 2010, with an application due date of June 9, 2010, and it was later archived in July 2010. NICHD anticipated committing a total of $2.4 million in total costs in fiscal year 2011 for this initiative, with up to six awards expected. The award ceiling listed is $400,000, which reflects the approximate maximum size of an individual institutional award under this announcement, though final budgets would depend on the proposed program structure and NIH review and funding decisions. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, which can reduce barriers for institutions that might otherwise struggle to provide non-federal matching funds.

Eligible applicants are organizations capable of administering an institutional career development program, including public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status (other than universities). The eligibility also explicitly includes institutions that serve specific populations and communities, such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, and entities in U.S. territories or possessions. This broad eligibility is consistent with NIH’s interest in supporting strong training environments across diverse institutional settings and expanding opportunities for developing the biomedical workforce.

From a high-level program standpoint, the CHRCDA K12 is essentially about building and sustaining a national network of institutional programs that can reliably develop junior pediatric faculty into independent investigators. The “institutional” nature of the grant implies the application would be judged not only on the promise of individual scholars, but also on the strength of the proposed mentoring team, research environment, oversight and scholar selection processes, and the overall plan to move scholars toward research independence. The opportunity is categorized as a discretionary grant in the health domain (CFDA 93.865: Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research), and the full announcement was made available through the NIH grants guide at the link provided in the source material.

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