Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)
Protected time and structured mentorship for an early-career researcher moving toward independence. The most common K for social work faculty coming out of a postdoc or a first tenure-track year.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (per year)Salary support to the institute's salary cap plus a research allowance, typically across three to five years.
- Timing
- Several times a yearSeveral times a year · Feb, Jun, OctNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Three standard career-development due dates a year.
- Who can apply
- Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty
- Eligibility
- Doctoral degree, a mentor with an active research programme, and a written institutional commitment of substantial protected time. Citizenship rules vary by institute.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- career development · protected time · mentorship · independence
- Apply at
- https://grants.nih.gov/funding/activity-codes/K01
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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