Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (Parent K24 - Independent Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required)
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If you're a tenured clinician-scientist with an MD/DO and a patient-research program, this funds your protected research time and mentorship—not a startup path.
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What this is
The K24 Midcareer Investigator Award supports experienced clinician-researchers (typically 5–15 years post-training) who want protected research time and mentorship capacity. Applicants must hold a health-professional doctorate (MD, DO, DDS, etc.) and commit to patient-oriented research—clinical trials, observational studies, health services research, and similar human-subjects work. The award covers salary, mentee support, and institutional costs but is fundamentally a career-development grant for academic clinical medicine, not startup funding or commercialization.
Who can apply
Applicants must hold a health-professional doctorate (MD, DO, DDS, DVM, etc.) and be employed by or formally affiliated with an eligible institution (universities, hospitals, nonprofits, small businesses, state/local governments, and tribal organizations all qualify). Solo founders without institutional backing and unaffiliated individuals are ineligible. U.S. citizenship or permanent residency typically required.
Eligible applicant types
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Small businesses
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- State governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
Full description — from the agency
The purpose of the NIH Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (K24) is to provide support to mid-career health-professional doctorates for protected time to devote to patient-oriented research (POR) and to act as research mentors primarily for clinical residents, clinical fellows and/or junior clinical faculty.
Topics: midcareer investigator award · patient-oriented research · clinical research funding · health professional doctorate · research mentor · NIH K24
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