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Child Health Research Career Development Award (K12)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Title: Child Health Research Career Development Award (K12)

Announcement Type:  This is a modification of RFA-HD-05-027 which was previously released on April 8, 2005.

Request For Applications (RFA) Number: RFA-HD-06-011

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number(s) 93.865

URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-06-011.html

Key Dates
Release Date: February 16, 2006
Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): March 20, 2006
Application Receipt Date(s): April 19, 2006
Earliest Anticipated Start Date: December 1, 2006

Funds Available
NICHD intends to commit approximately $2.6 million in total costs [Direct plus Facilities and Administrative (F & A) costs] in FY 2007 to fund up to six new and/or competing continuation grants in response to this RFA. Applicants may request a project period of up to five years and a budget of up to $400,000 for direct costs per year. It is not required that applications request the allowable budgetary maximum. Small size is not a disadvantage for CHRCDA funding. Because the nature and scope of the new projects may vary, it is anticipated that the size of awards also will vary. F&A costs on K12 awards are limited to 8% of modified total direct costs.

Purpose
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) supports a program of Child Health Research Career Development Awards (CHRCDA) intended to develop resources to speed the transfer of knowledge gained through studies in basic science to clinical applications that will benefit the health of children. The CHRCDA will support research career development of pediatricians who have recently completed subspecialty training, and who are commencing basic and/or clinical research relevant to child health. The goal of this initiative is to advance research in child health and to support educational institutions in their ability to stimulate novel research initiatives and career development experiences for junior investigators. This will be accomplished by increasing the number and effectiveness of established pediatric investigators who have a grounding in basic science and research skills that can be applied to the health problems of children, as well as by increasing the number of pediatric medical centers that can stimulate and facilitate the application of research findings to pressing pediatric problems.
 
Executive Summary
The goals of NIH-supported career development programs are to help ensure that diverse pools of highly trained scientists are available in adequate numbers and in appropriate research areas to address the Nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs.

  • The primary objective of the Child Health Research Career Development Award (CHRCDA) program is to provide pediatric research institutions with a greater capacity for mentoring junior investigators and, ultimately, to foster translational research on clinically relevant questions enabling basic science findings to be more rapidly applied to clinical problems. This RFA encourages innovative basic research related to pediatric diseases with the goal of accelerating progress in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of these conditions.
  • The total amount to be committed to the program is approximately $2.6 million in total costs in FY 2007.
  • The anticipated number of awards is 1-6 for this RFA.
  • This funding opportunity will use the NIH Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program (K12) award mechanism.
  • Eligible organizations include children's hospitals or departments of pediatrics of approved medical schools in the U.S. that have as a primary teaching site either a general children's hospital or a children's program with an identifiable organizational structure that is part of a larger medical institution.
  • Facilities needed: Sufficient to meet the purposes of the CHRCDA program, namely, to bridge clinical pediatric training with a career in basic and/or clinical research relevant to child health.
  • Principal Investigators must be the chairperson of the Department of Pediatrics or the chief of the pediatric service.
  • The NICHD does not limit the number of applications for a CHRCDA program from one institution. However, each application from the institution must have a different Principal Investigator


Last Edited: 03/14/06 02:09 PM by Evette Mezger