This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) invites applications for the pediatric scientist development program (PSDP). This program constitutes a national network of mentors and scholars, in contrast to K12 programs where the training and mentoring is based solely at a single applicant institution.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/12/2022
Size of the Grant: $1,400,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The overall goal of the NIH Research Career Development programs 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.
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) invites applications from organizations that propose a creative and innovative research career development program (K12) for pediatric physician scientists. The PSDP constitutes a national network of mentors and scholars, in contrast to K12 programs where the training and mentoring is based solely at a single applicant institution. The program will be responsible for identifying pediatricians in their final stages of subspecialty training and who have promising research potential and matching them with established mentors with a strong record of research productivity and substantial record of successfully training early career investigators. The program will develop guidelines for mentoring and career development in order to promote the successful transition to independent research careers in academic settings. The program will:
- Choose talented scholars with a strong interest in a research-focused career from a diverse pool of pediatric residents and fellows.
- Provide individualized mentored research experiences guided by established mentors from a wide range of subspecialties related to child health.
- Support educational opportunities to enhance the Scholars’ expertise in scientific research methodology.
- Facilitate rigorous projects that incorporate the most up-to-date scientific techniques and procedures.
- Offer experience and guidance in grantsmanship and oral and written presentation of research findings.
- Support academic career-development activities that focus on a variety of topics relevant to pediatrician scientist professional development.
Scope of Program
The PSDP program targets clinical fellows and junior faculty in pediatrics, who will be referred to as “Scholars” in the remainder of the FOA. The Scholars supported by the NICHD will train in laboratories and other settings located at research institutions across the country. Scholars will be chosen, after careful consideration of all interested applicants, for entry into the program. The PI will develop procedures to review scholar applications which will include the final approval by a Selection Committee comprised of leaders in academic pediatrics.
Funding Information
- Applicants may request direct cost budgets of up to $1.40M per year.
- The maximum project period is 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Higher Education Institutions
- Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher Education
- The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
- Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Governments
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
- U.S. Territory or Possession
- Other
- Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
- Federal Governments
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
- U.S. Territory or Possession.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
