Career Level: Junior Faculty

Awards that are for the training or career development of a single applicant.

1. K01 Research Scientist Development Award

   Supports basic scientists (non-clinicians) as they transition to independence and develop their careers with the support of a mentor.

2. K08 Clinical Investigator Award

   Supports early clinician scientists who are transitioning to independence in a junior faculty position while pursuing a basic or clinical research project and developing their career.

3. K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award

   Supports the career development of investigators who have made a commitment to focus their research endeavors on patient-oriented research. Supports early clinician scientists who are transitioning to independence in a junior faculty position and developing their career while pursuing a clinical research project that involves direct patient contact and the support of a mentor(s).

4. K25 Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award

   Supports highly productive postdoctoral fellows pursuing  mentored research projects while looking for faculty appointments. 

5. L30 Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Researchers

   NIH may repay up to $35,000 of your qualified student loan debt per year, including most undergraduate, graduate, and medical school loans if you are actively engaged in clinical research.

6. L40 Loan Repayment Program for Pediatric Researchers

   NIH may repay up to $35,000 of your qualified student loan debt per year, including most undergraduate, graduate, and medical school loans if you are actively engaged in research related to a pediatric disease or disease model.

7. L60 Loan Repayment Program for Health Disparities Research

8. L70 Loan Repayment Program for Research in Emerging Areas Critical to Human Health

9. R03 Small Research Grant Program

   Supports research projects that can be completed in a 2-yr time frame. NIDDK does not participate in the parent NOFO for R03s, but issues NOFOs for specific audiences, e.g. NIDDK- supported K01, K08, and K23 awardees.

10. X02 Preapplication

    A program to invite eligible institutions to submit a pre-application (also known as a "white paper" or "précis") to facilitate certain approaches or economies, such as reducing burden on the applicant community, for a funding opportunity

Awards that are under the direction of a senior faculty member who is responsible for selecting trainees or scholars. View our institutional training program locations.

1. K12 Physician Scientist Award

   Award to an institution to support several individuals as they transition from fellowship to faculty while pursuing a research project with the help of a mentor(s).

2. S06 Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH)

   Supports partnerships between American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes or tribally-based organizations and institutions that conduct intensive academic-level biomedical, behavioral and health services research.

3. SC3 Research Continuance Award

   Individual investigator-initiated research projects for faculty at MSIs to conduct research of limited scope in environments with limited research infrastructure/facilities.

Awards to support a diverse scientific workforce.

1. S06 Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH)

   Supports partnerships between American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes or tribally-based organizations and institutions that conduct intensive academic-level biomedical, behavioral and health services research.

2. SC3 Research Continuance Award

   Individual investigator-initiated research projects for faculty at MSIs to conduct research of limited scope in environments with limited research infrastructure/facilities.