Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient Oriented Research (K24) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient Oriented Research (K24) is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) career development grant designed to strengthen the patient oriented research workforce by giving established, midcareer clinician-scientists protected time to both conduct research involving human subjects and to mentor the next generation of clinical investigators. The program is aimed at health professionals with doctoral-level clinical degrees (or the equivalent) who are typically at the Associate Professor level (or a comparable career stage). In practical terms, the award is meant for people who are already productive investigators but whose time is increasingly pulled toward clinical service and administrative duties. The K24 helps stabilize their research effort and formalizes their role as mentors, with a strong emphasis on guiding clinical residents, clinical fellows, and/or junior clinical faculty in patient oriented research.

The core purpose is twofold. First, it provides support for protected time so the awardee can stay deeply engaged in patient oriented research (POR), which generally refers to research conducted directly with human subjects, including clinical studies of mechanisms of disease, therapeutic interventions, clinical trials, or development and evaluation of new clinical technologies and approaches. Second, it supports the awardee as a research mentor, recognizing that training and mentoring are essential for sustaining clinical research capacity. The expectation is that K24 recipients will actively supervise and develop early-career clinicians who are building research skills, helping them move toward independent funding and strong publication records.

This opportunity uses the NIH K24 mechanism, which is a discretionary grant instrument within NIHs broader set of research training and career development programs. While the summary information here does not spell out detailed budget limits or required effort levels, it does note that applicants are encouraged to contact the relevant NIH Institute or Center (IC) program staff for institute-specific guidance, including programmatic fit and budgetary expectations. That matters because the K24 is offered across many NIH components, and details such as allowable costs, salary coverage practices, and emphasis areas can vary depending on the participating institute.

The announcement is identified as Funding Opportunity Number PA-09-037, titled "Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient Oriented Research (K24)." It is categorized as discretionary funding and uses a grant funding instrument. The activity category spans several broad public purpose areas, including education and training, health, and related social services domains, reflecting the awards dual focus on research productivity and workforce development through mentorship. The program is associated with many CFDA listings across NIHs institutes and centers, covering areas such as environmental health, oral health, deafness and communication disorders, complementary and integrative health, sleep disorders, drug abuse, mental health, technological innovations to improve human health, nursing research, cancer research manpower, heart/lung/blood diseases, arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions, diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases, neurological disorders, allergy and infectious diseases, child health and development, aging, and vision research. That range signals that the K24 is not a niche award tied to one disease area; it is a cross-cutting career development mechanism that can support patient oriented research in many biomedical and behavioral health fields, as long as the research and mentoring plan aligns with the mission of the relevant IC.

A notable administrative feature is that there is no cost-sharing or matching requirement listed, which is consistent with many NIH mechanisms where the primary expectation is institutional commitment and an appropriate environment for the awardees work rather than financial match. The eligible applicant organizations are broad and include public and private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations (including 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) entities), small businesses, for-profit organizations (other than small businesses), state governments, federally recognized tribal governments, and other tribal organizations. The eligibility list also explicitly mentions categories such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions, tribally controlled colleges and universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions, faith-based or community-based organizations, regional organizations, and U.S. territories or possessions. This breadth reflects NIHs general approach of allowing many types of U.S.-based institutions to serve as applicants as long as they can provide the research infrastructure, compliance environment, and mentoring setting needed for clinical research and training.

The posting timeline provided indicates the opportunity was posted on December 11, 2008, with various administrative dates listed (including an archive date of February 7, 2010). The original closing date is shown as January 7, 2012, while the current closing date is January 7, 2010, which suggests the listing reflects an archived or time-bounded window under that specific announcement version. For anyone interested today, the most important takeaway is to use the provided NIH link to confirm the most current status and to look for any reissued or updated K24 announcements, since NIH often updates policy language, submission rules, and participating institute details over time.

For additional details, the source points to the full announcement at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-037.html, and it provides NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) webmaster contacts for technical issues accessing the announcement. The summary repeatedly emphasizes a practical step for potential applicants: reach out to the appropriate NIH Institute or Center contacts early, because program staff can clarify whether a candidates research focus qualifies as patient oriented research under that institutes interpretation, whether the mentoring plan meets expectations, and what budget and effort assumptions are typical for that IC.

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