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MENTORED QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD
Release Date: April 13, 1999
PA NUMBER: PA-99-087
PURPOSE
Research at the borders of disciplines and from fresh perspectives often
produces surprising and exciting results. Increasingly, teams of scientists
from diverse disciplines converge on a common research questions. Individuals
who can independently bridge different disciplines, as well as those who are
able to function as leading members of multi-disciplinary research teams are
playing ever more valuable roles at the forefront of biomedicine. The purpose
of the Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K25) is to
engender and foster such activities by supporting the career development of
investigators with quantitative scientific and engineering backgrounds outside
of biology or medicine who have made a commitment to focus their research
endeavors on behavioral and biomedical research (basic or clinical). This
mechanism is aimed at research-oriented scientists with experience at the
level of junior faculty (e.g., early to mid-levels of assistant professor or
research assistant professor ranks). This award provides support for a period
of supervised study and research for professionals with such backgrounds who
have the potential to integrate their expertise with biomedicine and develop
into productive investigators.
Examples of quantitative scientific and technical backgrounds outside of
biology or medicine considered appropriate for this award include, but are not
limited to: mathematics, statistics, computer science, informatics, physics,
chemistry, and engineering.