NIDCR Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K01 Independent Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required)
Funding Opportunity PAR-22-052 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of the NIDCR Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Diversity is to support postdoctoral fellows and early career faculty from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, and social sciences, to enhance the diversity of well-trained dental, oral, and craniofacial research workforce. This FOA provides salary and research support for a sustained period of protected time for intensive research career development under the guidance of an experienced mentor. (Source: NIH Funding O...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - February 11, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

NIDCR Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K01 Clinical Trial Required)
Funding Opportunity PAR-22-051 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of the NIDCR Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Diversity is to support postdoctoral fellows and early career faculty from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, and social sciences to enhance the diversity of well-trained dental, oral, and craniofacial research workforce. This FOA provides salary and research support for a sustained period of protected time for intensive research career development under the guidance of an experienced mentor. (Source: NIH Funding Op...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - February 11, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

NIDCR Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K01 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity PAR-22-050 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of the NIDCR Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Diversity in the Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Workforce is to support postdoctoral fellows and early career faculty from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, and social sciences, to enhance the diversity of well-trained dental, oral, and craniofacial research workforce. This FOA provides salary and research support for a sustained period of protected time for intensive research career development under the guidance o...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - February 11, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

New NIH Administrative Supplements Available to Support Diversity Mentorship
Marie A. Bernard, M.D., NIH Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity. I am pleased to announce the availability of a new NIH administrative supplement that recognizes the crucial role outstanding mentors play in fostering future leaders in the biomedical research enterprise. Qualified investigators can now submit proposals in response to the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity (COSWD)-led Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) NOT-OD-22-057: Administrative Supplements to Recognize Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Mentorship. Proposals are due by April 7, 2022. Mentorship ...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 9, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Marie A. Bernard Tags: blog Open Mike administrative supplements Diversity Source Type: funding

NIDCR Dental Specialty and PhD Program (K12 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-DE-23-001 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of the NIDCR Dental Specialty and PhD Program (DSPP) is to develop outstanding dentist scientists through structured programs that provide advanced clinical training in an approved dental specialty, research career development activities, and supervised research training leading to a PhD in biomedical or behavioral science. The programs are expected to accelerate the process of early career dentist scientists achieving competencies in both clinical and research areas, and to facilitate their transition to independent and productiv...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - February 7, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Do I Need To Include eRA Commons IDs for Other Significant Contributors Listed on the R & R SR/Key Person Profile Form of My Grant Application?
Yes. As of due dates on or after January 25, 2022,  eRA Commons IDs must be provided in the Credential field for all individuals listed on the R&R Sr/Key Person Profile form. This includes all senior/key personnel, other significant contributors (OSCs), and other key individuals required to be entered on the form by your funding opportunity announcement. Previously, eRA Commons IDs were only required for project directors/principal investigators (PDs/PIs), the sponsor on a fellowship application, the primary mentor on a career development application, component leads on multi-project applications, and candidates for d...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 31, 2022 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: You Ask, We Answer application policy eRA Commons Source Type: funding

Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (StARR) (R38)
Funding Opportunity RFA-HL-23-006 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of this program is to recruit and retain outstanding, postdoctoral-level health professionals who have demonstrated potential and interest in pursuing careers as clinician-investigators. To address the growing need for this critical component of the research workforce, this funding opportunity seeks applications from institutional programs that can provide outstanding mentored research opportunities for Resident-Investigators and foster their ability to transition to individual career development research awards. The program will ...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - January 19, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

HEAL Initiative: National K12 Clinical Pain Career Development Program (K12 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-22-045 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This FOA will support early career clinical pain scientists development as a means to enhance the clinical pain research workforce. Under this award, promising early-career clinician-scientists will have access to high-quality mentorship that will promote their successful transition to independent research careers in academic settings. Clinicians in their last year of residency/fellowship/post-doctoral training, or in their first year of an independent faculty position, can apply to the awarded HCPDP national program for support, which is int...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - January 10, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

HEAL Initiative: Coordinating Center for National Pain Scientists Career Development (R24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-22-046 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. There is an urgent need for more research to establish best practices in the pain management field, however, there is a limited workforce pipeline of pain researchers to meet NIHs long-term goals of providing effective non-opioid options for the treatment of pain conditions and better pain management overall. The Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (IPRCC) has identified the workforce problem as a barrier for new pain research, and has identified factors that contributed to it such as barriers to entry into the field of pain rese...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - January 10, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Farewell 2021, Time to Bring in 2022
It has been quite a year. Francis Collins, NIH Director for over 12 years, stepped down after an extraordinary tenure, a tenure marked by “a calm hand, a scientific mind, and a deep commitment to the well-being of all Americans.” The stresses and ongoing uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic continued in almost roller-coaster like fashion; at this writing, we are in the midst of the Omicron surge. As some COVID-19 grant-related flexibilities remain in place, anxieties persist about intermediate- and long-term effects of the pandemic on research productivity, mental health, financial well-being, and family responsibiliti...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 10, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike biomedical research workforce COVID-19 reflection Source Type: funding

AHRQ Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Mentored Clinical Scientist Career Development Award (K08)
Funding Opportunity PA-22-050 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The primary purpose of the AHRQ Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Mentored Clinical Investigator Career Development Award (K08) program is to provide support for qualified individuals for an intensive, mentored research career development experience in comparative effectiveness research (CER) methods as applied to patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR). (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - December 8, 2021 Category: Research Source Type: funding

AHRQ Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01)
Funding Opportunity PA-22-049 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The primary purpose of the AHRQ Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01) program is to provide support for qualified individuals for an intensive, mentored research career development experience in comparative effectiveness research (CER) methods as applied to patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR). (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - December 8, 2021 Category: Research Source Type: funding

All About Grants Podcast – NIH Family Friendly Policies
Pritty Joshi, PhD, Health Science Policy Analyst, NIH DBRW Ericka Boone, PhD, Acting Director, NIH Division of Biomedical Research Workforce (DBRW) From funding available for childcare costs to extensions of early-stage investigator (ESI) status, NIH supports various programs and policies fostering a balanced work and family life. These Family Friendly Initiatives are the focus for our next NIH All About Grants podcast (MP3 / Transcript). Guests from NIH’s biomedical research workforce office will share their insights on available programs, who is eligible, some of the fine print, and other tips to consider when seeking ...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - December 2, 2021 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources biomedical research workforce childcare cost ESI extension Family Friendly podcast Source Type: funding

Notice of NICHD Participation in NOT-OD-20-054, "Notice of Special Interest: Administrative Supplements to Promote Research Continuity and Retention of NIH Mentored Career Development (K) Award Recipients and Scholars"
Notice NOT-HD-21-049 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - December 2, 2021 Category: Research Source Type: funding

Child Health Research Career Development Award (CHRCDA) Program (K12 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Opportunity RFA-HD-23-010 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to provide junior faculty pediatricians with state of the art training in an academic research setting to stimulate pediatric research over a variety of disciplines. The program provides supervised research career development opportunities to assist junior faculty in their transition to productive pediatrician scientists. The goal of the Child Health Research Career Development Award (CHRCDA) Program is to promote the performance of research and transfer of findings that will benefit the health o...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - November 29, 2021 Category: Research Source Type: funding