title: Identifying grant funding: mentored career development and transition awards.
abstract: NIH Career Development Awards are designed to provide outstanding, clinically trained professionals with salary support and protected time to pursue a course of intensive, mentored research experience necessary to achieve full scientific independence. The ideal candidate for a career development award is a health scientist nearing the completion of postdoctoral training or in the early years of a faculty position. The K series of NIH awards provide several options for mentored training that are appropriate for investigators interested in laboratory or clinical investigation in the biologic and medical sciences.
authors.affiliation: Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY 40536, USA. mcdonagh@uky.edu
authors.forename: Kevin T
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: McDonagh
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000191:economics; D002321:Career Choice; D005381:Financing, Organized / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D008611:Mentors; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D009369:Neoplasms; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000191:economics; D012649:Self Concept; D014481:United States