NIDA Mentored Clinical Scientists Development Program Award in Drug Abuse and Addiction (K12) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The NIDA Mentored Clinical Scientists Development Program Award in Drug Abuse and Addiction (K12) is an NIH funding opportunity designed to build a stronger, more diverse pipeline of clinician-scientists who can lead independent research careers focused on drug abuse and addiction. The core idea is to fund institutions, not individual trainees, so those institutions can run structured career development programs that provide intensive, closely supervised research training and professional development. The program is meant to help clinicians and other doctorate-level researchers move from mentored training into independent, competitive research positions that address national biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs in the addiction space.

This opportunity uses the NIH Institutional Research Career Development (K12) grant mechanism. Under a K12, the applying organization creates and operates a mentored program and then appoints “scholars” to receive protected time, research experience, and career development support through that institutional program. A key expectation is that scholars supported by the program are clinician-scientists (broadly defined) working toward research independence specifically in drug abuse and addiction. Importantly, K12 awards are institutional and cannot be transferred from one institution to another, which reinforces that the grant supports a locally built training environment, mentorship structure, and research infrastructure.

Scholar eligibility and effort commitment are central requirements. Individuals appointed as scholars must hold a clinical or research doctorate, and they must be able to commit at least 9 person-months of effort per year, which is equivalent to 75 percent full-time professional effort, to clinical research and career development activities tied to the program. In practical terms, the FOA is aimed at people who can devote substantial protected time to research training rather than fitting research into small gaps around heavy clinical or administrative loads. The emphasis on intensive supervised training signals that the program is intended to be immersive, with strong mentorship and a clear trajectory toward independence.

Funding levels and the number of awards are not fixed in the announcement because NIDA expects programs to vary widely in scope, design, and cost depending on the institution, the scholar pool, and the research environments involved. As a result, award size and duration may differ across funded applications, and the total number of awards ultimately depends on NIH priorities, available funds, and the overall quality, duration, and budget requests of the applications received.

In terms of who can apply, eligibility is broad and includes public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofits (including those with and without 501(c)(3) status, with the specific caveat “other than institutions of higher education” for some nonprofit categories), and for-profit organizations other than small businesses. The eligibility language also explicitly includes a range of mission-driven and capacity-building institution types, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, and U.S. territories or possessions. There is no cost-sharing or matching requirement, which typically lowers barriers for institutions that want to build or expand a mentored research training program without needing to commit significant non-federal funds as a condition of the award.

Administratively, the opportunity is offered by the National Institutes of Health, with the relevant program area being NIDA’s Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279). The funding opportunity number is PAR-10-177, it was posted April 27, 2010, and it has since been archived (archive date October 7, 2012). The original and then-current closing dates listed in the record reflect that it was an active solicitation during that period, but it is no longer open under the archived notice. The full archived announcement was made available through the NIH Grants Guide, and NIH’s Office of Extramural Research (OER) provides support contacts for technical issues accessing the posting.

Overall, this FOA is best understood as an institutional platform grant: it supports an organization in creating a high-quality, mentored, research-intensive career development pathway for doctorate-level clinician-scientists who can devote substantial protected time to addiction-focused clinical research, with the explicit end goal of producing independent investigators in drug abuse and addiction research.

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