title: A 10-year analysis of American Society For Radiation Oncology Junior Faculty Career Development Awards.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Between 2000 and 2010, the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) awarded 22 Junior Faculty Career Development Awards (JFA) totaling $4.4 million. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of these awards on the grantees' career development, including current position, publications, and subsequent independent grant funding.
  
  
  METHODS
  Each awardee was requested via email and telephone to provide an updated curriculum vitae, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) biosketch, and information regarding current position of employment. Twenty-one of the 22 JFA recipients complied. Reported grant funding was extracted from each candidate's CV, and the amounts of NIH grants obtained were confirmed via NIH REPORTER. Reported publications were confirmed via PubMed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All survey respondents (21 of 21) have remained in academic positions. Subsequent aggregate grant funding totaled more than $25 million (range, $0-$4.1 million), 5.9 times the initial investment. NIH grant funding totaled almost $15 million, 3 times the initial investment. Awardees have published an average of 34.6 publications (range, 0-123) for an overall rate of 4.5 papers/year (range, 1-11).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  ASTRO JFAs over the past decade have been strongly associated with grantees remaining in academic positions, success in attracting private and NIH grants, and publication productivity. In an era of dwindling federal research funding, the support provided by the ASTRO JFA may be especially helpful to support the research careers of promising junior faculty members.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA. rkimple@humonc.wisc.edu
authors.forename: Randall J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Kimple
authors.forename: Gary D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Kao
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D002322:Career Mobility; D004526:Efficiency; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000600:supply & distribution; D005381:Financing, Organized / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.) / Q000191:economics; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018787:Radiation Oncology / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012106:Research / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013192:Staff Development / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States