Two Important Changes to Career Development ("K") Awards

Posted

Individual Career Development (“K”) awardees may now request to reduce their appointment to less than full-time for a period not to exceed 12 continuous months.

All candidates must meet the full-time institutional appointment requirement as well as the minimum 75% effort requirement at the time of application and initial award, but may request to reduce their appointment to less than full-time (but not less than three-quarter time) for up to 12 continuous months under certain circumstances (e.g., parental leave, child care, elder care, medical conditions, or a disability).  The K awardee must continue to commit at least 75% effort to research and career development activities.  See NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-09-036, which also restates current NIH policy for K awards with respect to leave and temporary adjustments to percent effort, for additional details.

Individual Career Development (“K”) applications transition to Adobe, February 12, 2009

As previously announced in NOT-OD-08-073, effective with the February 12, 2009 submission date, NIH will transition all Research Career Development Award Programs (“K”s) – with the exception of K12s – to electronic submission via Grants.gov using the new Adobe-based version of the SF424 (R&R) forms.  Applicants are advised to see NOT-OD-09-029 for important details about the “K” transition, including the announcement of new business processes and additional information that will be required on applications for the February 12 receipt date and beyond. Applicants can find information about the ongoing transition to Adobe at http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/adobe_transition.htm.