Program Description:
The purpose of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Academic Career Award (K07) is to provide support to increase the pool of individuals with academic and research expertise to become academic researchers and to enhance the educational or research capacity at the grantee sponsoring grantee institution.
The Academic Career Award supports K07 development awards for more junior level candidates and K07 leadership awards for more senior individuals with acknowledged scientific expertise and leadership skills. Prospective candidates are encouraged to contact the relevant NIH staff for institute/center(IC)-specific programmatic and budgetary information. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) will utilize the K07 award mechanism.
Because the nature and scope of the proposed career award program will vary from application to application and the amounts provided by the participating ICs are not uniform, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. Candidates may request up to 5 years of support (at least 3 years are required for the K07 Development award, and at least 2 years are required for the K07 Leadership award).
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-10-058.html?CFID=9054716&CFTOKEN=20379825
