Transition to Independent Environmental Health Research (TIEHR) Career Transition Award (K01)

Number: 
PAR-16-360
Sponsor: 
NIH
Due Date: Full Proposal: 
June 12, 2017

FULL PROPOSAL:  The overall goal of the NIH Research Career Development program is to help ensure that a diverse pool of highly trained scientists is available in appropriate scientific disciplines to address the Nation's biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs. In addition to this opportunity, NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) support a variety of other mentored career development programs designed to foster the transition of new investigators to research independence. These other programs may be more suitable for particular candidates.  NIH also supports non-mentored career development programs for independent investigators. More information about Career programs may be found at the NIH Extramural Training Mechanisms website. The objective of the Transitions to Independent Environmental Health Research (TIEHR) Career Award (K01) is to provide support to outstanding biomedical basic, behavioral or clinical investigators who are within the first 3 years of their first independent faculty appointment to develop their independent research skills through a 3-year bridge scholar development program for newly independent faculty.  This award is intended to provide junior faculty with pilot funding and salary support during this critical period of career development so that the candidate can further develop his/her independent research program and, subsequently, successfully compete for research funding in the environmental health sciences at the completion of the award.