Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award (Parent K25 Independent Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required)
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If you're a strong quantitative researcher ready to pivot toward health/disease problems, the NIH will fund your transition with protected time and mentorship.
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What this is
This is a career development award designed to recruit quantitative scientists and engineers—mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, physicists, and similar professionals—who want to redirect their expertise toward biomedical and health research. The award funds a mentored research period of protected time, allowing you to study health/disease questions while maintaining your quantitative skill set. It's ideal if you have a strong quantitative research track record but minimal prior work in biology or medicine. Funded through multiple NIH institutes (CFDA codes cover everything from general sciences to specific health domains).
Who can apply
Applicants must be independent researchers (not yet established as a leader in NIH-relevant research) with quantitative backgrounds; eligible organizations include universities, nonprofits, small businesses, government entities, and tribal organizations. Individuals apply through their institutional sponsor.
Eligible applicant types
- Independent school districts
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Small businesses
- State governments
- County governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
Full description — from the agency
The purpose of the Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K25) is to attract to NIH-relevant research those investigators whose quantitative science and engineering research has thus far not been focused primarily on questions of health and disease. The K25 award will provide support and "protected time" for a period of supervised study and research for productive professionals with quantitative (e.g., mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science, imaging science, informatics, physics, chemistry) and engineering backgrounds to integrate their expertise with NIH-relevant research.
Topics: career development award · quantitative research · biomedical research transition · mentored research · NIH K25 · mathematics statistics computer science
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