K23 (NIH Mentored Research Development Award)
Mentored research is a large component of the Clinical Scientist Training Program. One of the aims for the first year of the program is for you to produce a complete K23 NIH grant application.
Below is the outline for an application. To keep you on track with a finished product deadline of April 1, complete each section by the time stated and submit the completed application. Of course it is understood that this may not be your final draft, but will be modified as your thinking evolves.
We expect you to get help from your committee, and, to a limited extent, your mentor. This must be your project, not your mentor's, the aim being for you to learn how to write an independent proposal.
Oct. 4, 2009: Biographical sketches, resources, abstract, background
Nov. 13, 2009: Goals and objectives, career development plan, institutional environment, institutional commitment
Jan. 24, 2010: Background, significance and rationale, preliminary studies and results
Feb. 21, 2010: Final hypotheses and specific aims, research design and methods
April 1, 2010: Complete proposal, including budget, reference letters and mentor's statement.
Application Outline
- Budget
- Biographical sketch, applicant
- Biographical sketch, mentor
- Resources
- Letters of reference
- Applicant's background
- Applicant's goals and objectives
- Career development activities planned for award period
- Statements by mentor and collaborators
- Description of institutional environment
- Institutional commitment to applicant's research career development
- Research plan
- a. Hypothesis and specific aims
- b. Background, significance and rationale
- c. Preliminary studies and results
- d. Research design and methods
- e. Human subjects
- f. Vertebrate animals
- g. Literature cited
- h. Consortium/contractual arrangements
- i. Consultants