PKG00286078.pdf

This is an Application Guide document for NIH FORMS-H that provides instructions for submitting applications to the Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (Parent K24 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed) grant opportunity. The guide directs applicants to use either General Instructions or filtered Career Development Instructions, with the latter identified for K24 career development applications. Applicants must reference the basic instructions along with form-specific guidance, and should note that application form packages may contain optional forms requiring review of the funding opportunity announcement for submission requirements. The guide provides links to the general application instructions (HTML/PDF format), the complete FORMS-H general guidance document, and the FORMS-H career development-specific guidance document.

The K24 grant is administered by the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, and is designed to provide support to mid-career health-professional doctorates for protected time to conduct patient-oriented research and mentor clinical residents, fellows, and junior faculty. Eligible applicants include state governments, small businesses, nonprofits, higher education institutions, local governments, tribal organizations, HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions, and other designated minority-serving institutions, though non-domestic entities and foreign organizations are ineligible. The grant is associated with multiple NIH federal grant programs including the Office of Research on Women's Health (93.313), Trans-NIH Research Support (93.310), and various disease-specific programs such as Cardiovascular Diseases Research (93.837), Environmental Health (93.113), Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research (93.855), and Aging Research (93.866). No specific award amounts, deadlines, or project periods are detailed in this guidance document.