I’m often asked whether applicants to the NIH Career Development Award (K Series) need to have publications with their primary mentor in order to be competitive. The resounding answer is “yes”! Even though this is not written anywhere in NIH’s official guidance, it is a consistent reality in the field. I know that it sounds […]
K award questions come up at every live session we run, and many of the same ones appear again and again. We’ve pulled together the most common ones here — with the same direct answers we give in the room. Do you need a publication with your primary mentor to be competitive? Yes. This is
Here is what we see, almost universally, when researchers come to us with a K application idea: they come with a project. They have a research question, a set of aims, maybe some preliminary data. And from there, they try to work backward to figure out their training goals. This is the wrong order. And
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