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Funding Eligibility by Career Level
-  High School & Undergraduate Student 
-  Doctoral & Medical Student 
-  Post Doctorate 
-  Junior Faculty 
-  Established Investigator 

# Career Level: Junior Faculty

          - High School & Undergraduate Student
          - Doctoral & Medical Student
          - Post     Doctorate
          - Junior     Faculty
          - Established Investigator

Career Development Awards (K-series) are available for individuals just beginning their faculty appointments who have protected time for research. NIDDK supports K awards for both Ph.D. researchers and physician scientists.

Contact NIDDK training program staff with questions well in advance of deadlines.  

## Individual Awards

Awards that are for the training or career development of a single applicant.
              -  K01 Research Scientist Development Award                          Supports basic scientists (non-clinicians) as they transition to independence and develop their careers with the support of a mentor.                     
              -  K08 Clinical Investigator Award                          Supports early clinician scientists who are transitioning to independence in a junior faculty position while pursuing a basic or clinical research project and developing their career.                     
              -  K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award                          Supports the career development of investigators who have made a commitment to focus their research endeavors on patient-oriented research. Supports early clinician scientists who are transitioning to independence in a junior faculty position and developing their career while pursuing a clinical research project that involves direct patient contact and the support of a mentor(s).                     
              -  K25 Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award                          Supports highly productive postdoctoral fellows pursuing  mentored research projects while looking for faculty appointments.                      
              -  L30 Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Researchers                          NIH may repay up to $35,000 of your qualified student loan debt per year, including most undergraduate, graduate, and medical school loans if you are actively engaged in clinical research.                     
              -  L40 Loan Repayment Program for Pediatric Researchers                          NIH may repay up to $35,000 of your qualified student loan debt per year, including most undergraduate, graduate, and medical school loans if you are actively engaged in research related to a pediatric disease or disease model.                     
              -  L60 Loan Repayment Program for Health Disparities Research   
              -  L70 Loan Repayment Program for Research in Emerging Areas Critical to Human Health   
              -  R03 Small Research Grant Program                          Supports research projects that can be completed in a 2-yr time frame. NIDDK does not participate in the parent NOFO for R03s, but issues NOFOs for specific audiences, e.g. NIDDK- supported K01, K08, and K23 awardees.                     
              -  R16 Research Excellence Award                          Supports small-scale research projects at educational institutions that that enroll significant numbers of students from backgrounds nationally underrepresented in biomedical research, award baccalaureate and graduate degrees in biomedical sciences, and receive limited NIH funding.                     

## Institutional Awards

Awards that are under the direction of a senior faculty member who is responsible for selecting trainees or scholars. Perform a keyword search using the NIH RePORTER system to see who NIDDK is currently supporting.
              -  K12 Clinical Scientist Institutional Career Development Award                          Award to an institution to support several individuals as they transition from fellowship to faculty while pursuing a research project with the help of a mentor(s).                     
              -  S06 Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH)                          Supports partnerships between American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes or tribally-based organizations and institutions that conduct intensive academic-level biomedical, behavioral and health services research.                     

## Diversity Awards

Awards to support a diverse scientific workforce.

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See About Funding Mechanisms for an overview of mechanisms commonly used by NIDDK to fund researchers.