American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
Research and Academia: Areas of ARRA Funding
Opportunities
As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,
NIDCD has established eight supplement opportunities:
Fostering the Entry of Clinically-Trained Individuals
into the Research Pipeline (PIPE)
NIDCD has recently issued the following announcement about
"PIPE" to
request proposals for supplements"to recruit clinically-trained individuals into its
research enterprise to facilitate translation of fundamental
scientific discoveries and clinical observations within its
scientific mission bi-directionally between "bench and
bedside." This initiative targets clinicians at the junior
through mid-career levels who have developed a keen interest in
fundamental, translational, or patient-oriented research within
the NIDCD scientific mission areas, but who have limited
research backgrounds-typically less than two years of full-time
research experience in the health/life sciences since their
last clinical degree. It seeks to nurture these individuals to
integrate both research and clinical practice trajectories in
their careers in order to advance the state-of-the art in
health care services to individuals with communication
disorders.
This research supplement program establishes a mentoring
relationship between the sponsoring Principal Investigator
(PI)/Program Director (PD) and the budding clinician-scientist,
directly "tethering" the latter to the funded NIDCD
research grant or center grant of the mentoring PI/PD. The
research experience proposed for the candidate must be within
the research scope of the parent grant, and it must have the
potential to contribute significantly to the research career
development of the candidate as an independent investigator or
as a team scientist.
Clinically credentialed individuals holding a clinical
masters degree or doctoral degree are eligible candidates.
Members of clinical specialties focused on hearing, balance,
smell, taste, voice, speech, and language are eligible.
Speech-language pathologists, audiologists, otolaryngologists,
and epidemiologists are particularly encouraged to
apply."
NIDCD strongly encourages supplement requests be received by
April 22, 2009 at 5 p.m. EDT. Applicants must have an active
(or be in a no-cost extension) R, P, U or K series grant award
from NIDCD to a domestic institution. NIDCD training
(institutional T32 and individual fellowship F) awards,
U13/R13s, and contract awards are ineligible.
These supplements present a wonderful opportunity for NIDCD
funded researchers to expand the impact of their research
efforts and PIPE is an especially innovative mechanism to
expand the pipeline of clinical researchers.