Environmental Factor, August 2007, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
NIEHS Extramural Update:
Short Term Career Development Award (K18) Applications Being Accepted
August 2007
Applications are now being accepted for the NIEHS Short Term Career Development Award in the Environmental Health Sciences for Established Investigators (K18). The program offers established, well-funded mid-career level investigators support for the development of research capability in the environmental health sciences or in translational research. The awards provide candidates with protected time to achieve a shift in the focus of their research direction, or to learn exposure biology relevant to their ongoing research projects. These short-term mentored career development awards range from three months to one year in duration.
A primary goal of the NIEHS Strategic Plan 2006 is to expand and enhance the role of clinical and translational research in the environmental health sciences and to enhance the role of clinical investigators in environmental health sciences research. The Strategic Plan also addresses the need for increased training and career development opportunities in clinical and translational research and recognizes the advantages of the increased integration of environmental health sciences research with the overall NIH research enterprise.
The Short Term Career Development Award program is designed for two groups of investigators:
- Physician Scientists and others with clinical training who have research funding from other Institutes and essentially no experience in research applicable to the environmental health sciences, who wish to spend time in the laboratory or research program of a well funded and NIEHS-supported investigator in order to explore the introduction of research involving environmental stressors of importance to the mission of the NIEHS into their experimental systems and disease oriented research programs; and
- Investigators in the basic sciences with active research funding from NIEHS who wish to gain experience in a relevant, disease oriented translational program in order to extend their basic knowledge to a more translational problem.
NIEHS expects that this award will stimulate innovative, new projects in clinical and translational research in the environmental health sciences. Investigators who receive support through this program will be invited to the NIEHS campus in Research Triangle Park, NC, to present an open seminar on their research results.
The due date for the next cycle of applications for K-series grants is October 12, 2007.
For more information on this program see:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-402.html 
CONTACT: Carol Shreffler, Ph.D. at shreffl1@niehs.nih.gov
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