American Heart Association Career Development Award
Deadline: December 05, 2024
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Amount: $77,000 per year, including 10% institutional indirect costs
Purpose
This grant supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals, in the early years of one’s first professional appointment, to explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training necessary to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist.
Eligibility
At the time of application, the applicant must hold an MD, PhD, DO, DVM, DDS, or equivalent post-baccalaureate doctoral degree.
Postdoctoral fellows are eligible to apply but must have attained faculty appointment by the time of award activation.
Investigators who have been awarded NIH K99/R00 or R01 grants are not eligible to apply.
The AHA will permit a Career Development Awardee to concurrently hold an NIH K award (other than K99/R00) if there is no budgetary overlap.
The awardee must devote at least 10% effort to the Career Development Award.
At the time of award activation:
An awardee must hold a faculty/staff position up to and including the rank of assistant professor (or equivalent).
No more than six years may have elapsed since the first faculty/staff appointment (after receipt of doctoral degree) at the assistant professor level or equivalent (including, but not limited to, instructor, research assistant professor, research scientist, staff scientist, etc.). If the candidate held the title of instructor during postdoctoral fellowship or residency years due to clinical or teaching responsibilities, that period of time does not count against the eligibility period for applying for the Career Development Award. The AHA will consider interruptions of work experience due to extenuating circumstances and clinical training.
The applicant must demonstrate that adequate time will be devoted to ensuring the successful completion of the project.
Key Dates
- RFP posted March 11, 2024
- ProposalCentral open: Oct. 1, 2024
- Proposal deadline: Dec. 5, 2024
- Award notification: March 2025
- Award start: April 1, 2025