Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (Parent K23 Independent Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required)

The NIH Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) is designed to support the career development of individuals with a clinical doctoral degree who have made a commitment to focus their research endeavors on patient-oriented research. This program provides mentored research career development support for clinician-investigators who are committed to conducting patient-oriented research and who require additional supervised research experience to transition to independent research careers. The K23 award is intended for individuals who are in the early stages of their independent research careers and have the potential to develop into productive, independent investigators in clinical research. The program emphasizes the importance of mentored training and career development activities to enable recipients to achieve research independence in patient-oriented research.