Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Faculty Diversity in Biomedical Research (KO1)

The summary for the Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Faculty Diversity in Biomedical Research (KO1) grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the National Institutes of Health, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Faculty Diversity in Biomedical Research (KO1): - The Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Faculty Diversity in Biomedical Research is a three-to-five-year award made to faculty members who are currently underrepresented on faculty at academic institutions in health-related research on a national or institutional basis, such as individuals from racial and ethnic minority groups and individuals with disabilities. - The objective of this award is to increase the number of highly trained investigators from diverse backgrounds whose basic and clinical research interest are grounded in the advanced methods and experimental approaches needed to solve problems related to cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematologic, and sleep disorders in the general and health disparities populations. This strategy will establish a cadre of biomedical and behavioral researchers from diverse backgrounds that will significantly contribute to reducing and ultimately eliminating health disparities. - This RFA is a continuation of the program formerly named NHLBI Mentored Minority Faculty Development Award (RFA-HL-03-011). It will use the K01 mechanism of support. - The estimated annual funds (total costs) available for the program is expected to be $1.2 million per annual cohort. The actual amount may vary annually, depending on the response to the RFA and availability of funds. The total project period for an application submitted in response to this RFA must be at least three but not more than five years. - Eight to ten awards per year are anticipated. - Applications from the following institutions are eligible: For-profit and non-profit organizations - Public or private institutions, such as universities, colleges, hospitals, and laboratories - Domestic institutions - For the purpose of this announcement, eligible applicants are faculty members who have been determined by the grantee institution to be underrepresented on faculty in biomedical and behavioral research on a national or institutional basis, such as individuals from racial and ethnic minority groups and individuals with disabilities. Nationally, underrepresented groups in biomedical research careers include but are not limited to, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. - The candidates must have research experience (length of time may vary) and be committed to developing into independent biomedical investigators in research areas relevant to the mission of the NHLBI. The award will enable suitable faculty members holding doctoral degrees, such as the Ph.D., M.D., D.O., D.V.M., or an equivalent degree, to undertake special study and supervised research under a mentor who is an accomplished investigator in the research area proposed and has experience in developing independent investigators. - Individuals eligible to become Principal Investigators must be either citizens or non-citizen nationals of the United States or have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence (i.e., in possession of the Alien Registration Receipt Card I-551 or some other legal verification of such status) by the time of the award. Non-citizen nationals are generally persons born in outlying possessions of the United States (i.e., American Samoa and Swains Island). An individual admitted lawfully for permanent residence must submit with the application a notarized statement indicating possession of the Alien Registration Receipt Card I-551. Individuals on temporary or student visas are not eligible. - Individuals must have been awarded a doctoral degree, such as the Ph.D., M.D., D.O., D.V.M., or an equivalent degree at least two years prior to the award and have a full-time faculty appointment at an accredited college or university at the time of award. A minimum of 75% effort must be devoted to the research program. The remainder may be devoted to other clinical and teaching pursuits that are consistent with the program goals; i.e., the candidate's development into an independent biomedical scientist or the maintenance of the teaching and/or clinical skills needed for an academic research career.- Applications must be received on or before the application receipt date listed in the heading of this RFA. If an application is received after that date, it will be returned to the applicant without review. The Center for Scientific Review (CSR) will not accept any application in response to this RFA that is essentially the same as one currently pending initial review, unless the applicant withdraws the pending application. However, when a previously unfunded application, originally submitted as an investigator-initiated application, is to be submitted in response to an RFA, it is to be prepared as a NEW application. That is, the application for the RFA must not include an Introduction describing the changes and improvements made, and the text must not be marked to indicate the changes from the previous unfunded version of the application. - Each applicant may submit one application. - The application form is available at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html. Refer to Section III of PHS 398 application instructions. - Telecommunications for the hearing impaired is available at: TTY 301-451-0088