This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites early-stage physicians and other health professional investigators with a commitment to aging and/or aging-related diseases to apply for this award with the goal of advancing their research and leadership skills in their specialty and in the broader field of aging and geriatrics research.
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is pursuing this initiative to recruit early-stage investigators who have successfully competed for a research grant and begun to establish research programs and who, through this award, will be ready to assume leadership roles in their field of expertise and will be poised to change theory, practice, and health outcomes related to the health of older individuals. Unlike other mentored K awards, candidates for this award must have received competitively awarded research support as a Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI) at the faculty level or have otherwise leveraged faculty-level research support to develop an independent line of research. They must show evidence of leadership in the clinical or research domain.
This FOA is designed specifically for applicants proposing to serve as the lead investigator of an independent clinical trial, a clinical trial feasibility study, or a separate ancillary clinical trial as part of their research and career development. Applicants not planning an independent clinical trial, or proposing to gain research experience in a clinical trial led by another investigator, must apply to the companion FOA, RFA-AG-24-014.
Deadlines:
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Letter of Intent Due Date(s): 30 days before application due date
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Application Due Date(s): October 20, 2023; October 18, 2024
RFA-AG-24-015 Expiration Date October 19, 2024
Candidates for the K76 award must have Early-Stage Investigator status at the time of application submission and award. They are expected to hold or have had prior competitively awarded research support as a PD/PI at the faculty level or have leveraged faculty-level research development support to advance and develop an independent line of research. Candidates must also have a research or clinical doctoral degree, including but not limited to PhD, MD, DO, DDS, DMD, OD, DC, PharmD, Doctor of Naturopathy (ND), and DVM.
Candidates may submit research project grant (RPG) applications concurrently with the K application. However, any concurrent RPG application may not have substantial scientific and/or budgetary overlap with the career award application. K award recipients are encouraged to obtain funding from NIH or other Federal sources, either as a PD/PI on a competing research grant award or cooperative agreement, or as project leader on a competing multi-project award as described in NOT-OD-08-065.
Award budgets are composed of salary and other program-related expenses, as described below and are limited to $225,000 in direct costs in any year.
The total project period may not exceed 5 years.