MOSAIC Program Announcements Reissued; Join Our Webinar September 7th

We’re pleased to share that the Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) have been reissued. MOSAIC, a trans-NIH initiative that NIGMS oversees, has two components: a postdoctoral career transition award (K99/R00), and a cohort-based mentoring and career development program that supports the scholars (UE5 research education cooperative agreement). MOSAIC Postdoctoral Career Transition Awards to Promote Diversity (K99/R00) The MOSAIC K99/R00 program facilitates the timely transition of individuals from diverse backgrounds from their mentored, postdoctoral research positions to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions at research-intensive institutions. The program supports those who have demonstrated compelling commitments and contributions to enhancing diversity in the biomedical sciences, and includes three FOAs to accommodate the breadth of research conducted in the mission of participating institutes and centers (ICs): PAR-21-271 – Independent Clinical Trial Not AllowedPAR-21-272 – Independent Clinical Trial RequiredPAR-21-273 - Independent Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required It’s important that applicants reach out to the appropriate scientific/research contact prior to applying, since not all NIH ICs participate in these announcements (e.g., NIGMS participates only in PAR-21-271). Applications are accepted three times a year,...
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