The primary purpose of the AHRQ Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Mentored Clinical Investigator Career Development Award (K08) program is to provide support for qualified individuals for an intensive, mentored research career development experience in comparative effectiveness research (CER) methods as applied to patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR).
K08 Due Dates: Feb. 12, Jun. 12, Oct. 12
PA-22-050 Expiration Date New Date March 13, 2026 per issuance of NOT-HS-25-013 . (Original Expiration Date: March 13, 2025)
Any candidate with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI) is invited to work with his/her mentor(s) and organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for AHRQ support.
Multiple PDs/PIs are not allowed.
By the time of award, the individual must be a citizen or a non-citizen national of the United States or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence (i.e., possess a currently valid Permanent Resident Card USCIS Form I-551, or other legal verification of such status).
Candidates for the K01 award must have a research or health-professional doctoral degree. Such degrees include, but are not limited to, the Ph.D., Sc.D., Dr.P.H.
This funding opportunity may support individuals who propose to train in a new field or individuals who have had a hiatus in their research career because of illness or pressing family circumstances.
Individuals who apply for the PCOR K01 award can also apply or possess an AHRQ or NIH Small Grant (R03) or Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) but may not receive salary support from that award if the K01 is awarded.
Individuals are not eligible if they have simultaneously submitted or have an application which is pending peer review for any Federal or non-Federal research grant, contract, or cooperative agreement on which they are named PD/PI which exceeds $100,000 direct costs per year; or are the proposed subproject leader on Program Projects (P01) or Center Grants (P50) or cooperative agreements. Lastly, individuals cannot have been or currently be a PD/PI on peer-reviewed Federal or non-Federal research grants, contracts or cooperative agreements over $100,000 direct costs per year; or be or have been a subproject leader on Program Projects (P01) or Center Grants (P50) or cooperative agreements.
Individuals who have been or are currently a PD/PI on any other individual Federal mentored career development awards are not eligible to apply.
All candidates for AHRQ individual mentored career development grants are limited to a total of five years of mentored career development support. If the candidate has been a scholar appointed to any Federally-funded institutional mentored career development program (from mechanisms including, but not limited to, the K12 and KL2), the time appointments on these grants count toward the total five year AHRQ time limitation. For example, an individual who has been appointed to an AHRQ K12 or NIH KL2 institutional mentored career development grant for three years can request only two years of individual career development support on an AHRQ K01 grant. The minimum allowable time requested for all other applicants to AHRQ s individual mentored career development grants remains at three years per instructions in this announcement.
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Sponsor Institute/Organizations: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Address: North Bethesda, Maryland, Washington, D.C.
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Affiliation: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Address: North Bethesda, Maryland, Washington, D.C.
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