TSFRE and NHLBI Jointly Sponsored Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Awards (K08) and Mentored Patient Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23)
The Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education (TSFRE) and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) have wish to announce a program of jointly sponsored programs for Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Awards (K08) and Mentored Patient Oriented Research Career Development Awards (K23).
The Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education is pleased to acknowledge the generosity of The William J. von Liebig Foundation, Datascope Corporation, The Foundation for the Advancement of Cardiac Therapies, The Cross-Jones Fund directed at thoracic surgeon scientists in the early stages of their research careers and The Starr Foundation for supporting this program.
Purpose
The purpose of the Mentored Clinician Scientist Development Awards (MCSDA) is to support surgeon scientists in the early stages of their research careers and foster the development of outstanding clinician research scientists.
Because of the focus on progression to independence as an investigator, prospective candidates should propose a period of study and development consistent with this goal and his or her previous research and clinical experience. For example, candidates with limited experience in a given field of research may propose find a phased developmental five-year program lasting for five years, which that includes a designated period of didactic training and supervised research experience as the most efficient way to begin to work toward means of attaining independent funding for future research work. Each candidate with substantial previous research experience might propose a three-year research project preparatory to application for independent research funding from NIH and/or another major competitive funding source may require a shorter award period appropriate for the transition to independence. The entire program should be comparable in scope and rigor to meeting the requirements of an advanced research degree.
Mentored Patient Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23)
Purpose
This award is designed to support the training of clinically trained professionals who have made a commitment to focus on patient-oriented research. For the purpose of this award, patient-oriented research is research conducted with human subjects (or on material of human origin such as tissues, specimens, and cognitive phenomena) for which an investigator interacts directly with human subjects.
For additional K23 information, see:
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/funding/training/redbook/newk23.htm
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-194.html
For additional K08 information, see:
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/funding/training/redbook/newrek08.htm
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-193.html
Application Procedures
Applications are now submitted electronically and must conform to the guidelines published in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts for the Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Awards. Please notify TSFRE after you receive your award letter from the NIH.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/forms.htm
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/424/SF424_RR_Guide_General_Adobe_VerB.pdf
Review Considerations
Applications will be reviewed for completeness by the Center for Scientific Review and for responsiveness to this program announcement by the TSFRE and NHLBI. Applications that are complete and responsive to the program announcement will be evaluated for scientific and technical merit by an appropriate peer review group convened at the NHLBI in accordance with the standard NIH peer review procedures.
Visit http://grants.nih.gov/grants/peer/reviewer_guidelines.htm#k_awards for review criteria for K awards.
As part of the initial merit review, all applications will receive a written critique and undergo a process in which only those applications deemed to have the highest scientific merit, generally the top half of applications under review, will be discussed, assigned a priority score, and receive a second level review by the appropriate advisory council or board. The applications will also receive a secondary review by the TSFRE Research Committee. The TSFRE-NHLBI program will sponsor as many K08 and K23 awards each year as available funds will allow.
Contacts
For questions regarding eligibility the K23 mechanism:
Jane D. Scott, ScD, MSN, FAHA
Director, Office of Research Training and Career Development
Division of Cardiovascular Sciences (DCVS)
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health
Phone: 301-435-0535; 301-402-5264
Fax: 301-480-7404
scottj2@nhlbi.nih.gov
For questions regarding the K08 mechanism:
Drew E. Carlson, PhD
Program Officer, Office of Research Training and Career Development
Division of Cardiovascular Sciences (DCVS)
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health
Phone: 301-435-0535
carlsonde@ nhlbi.nih.gov
For questions regarding TSFRE:
Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education
633 N. St. Clair Street
23rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312-202-5868
E-mail: tsfre@tsfre.org
