NLM Independent Career Development Award for Biomedical Informatics (K22) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The NLM Independent Career Development Award for Biomedical Informatics (K22) is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) career development grant offered through the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to help biomedical informatics researchers move from a mentored, early-career phase into a fully independent research position. The central goal is to provide protected time and support so that newly independent investigators can launch and stabilize their first research program, build momentum toward longer-term NIH funding, and establish themselves as independent scientists. The program is specifically aimed at biomedical informaticians working in areas such as clinical informatics, public health informatics, and translational informatics, reflecting NLMs interest in strengthening the research workforce that develops and evaluates informatics methods, systems, and approaches that improve health and biomedical discovery.

This opportunity uses the NIH Career Transition Award (K22) mechanism, which is designed to support a structured transition to independence. In practical terms, the K22 mechanism is typically associated with providing dedicated research time and resources during the early independent stage so recipients can develop their own projects, publications, preliminary data, collaborations, and grant applications while they establish a stable academic or research trajectory. The emphasis on "protected time" signals that the award is meant to buy down other obligations so the investigator can focus meaningfully on building an original, independent research program rather than continuing primarily in a trainee or service role.

A notable feature of this particular NLM K22 is that preference is given to applicants who received informatics training through one of NLMs university-based biomedical informatics training programs. This means candidates who have come through NLM-supported training pipelines may be more competitive, although the opportunity is not limited only to those individuals. The award is positioned as a bridge between strong training or mentored development and the first stage of independence, with the expectation that the investigator will use the award period to define a clear research niche and demonstrate the capacity to lead a program of research in biomedical informatics.

Funding levels and the number of awards are not fixed in advance, because NLM indicates that both depend on the merit of the applications received and the availability of funds in a given year. That said, NLM anticipates making roughly 3 to 5 new K22 awards per year, which suggests a selective competition with a relatively small cohort of annual awardees.

Administratively, the grant opportunity is listed as PAR-10-195 and falls under the discretionary grant category, with the funding activity category noted as education and health, and the CFDA number 93.879 (Medical Library Assistance). It does not require cost sharing or matching. The eligible applicant organizations are broad and include many types of higher-education institutions (public, state-controlled, and private), state governments, and a wide range of nonprofit and community-serving entities. Eligibility also extends to several categories of organizations that NIH commonly includes for workforce and capacity-building efforts, such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions, tribally controlled colleges and universities, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian serving institutions, U.S. territories or possessions, regional organizations, faith-based or community-based organizations, and certain tribal governments and tribal organizations.

Key dates shown in the source data include an original posting date of May 11, 2010, with later administrative dates indicating a closing date of September 7, 2013, and an archive date of October 7, 2013. For the full official announcement details, the archived NIH guide notice is linked at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-195.html, and the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) webmaster contact is provided for access or technical issues (FBOWebmaster@OD.NIH.GOV).

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