CTSI K12 Eligibility

Eligible applicants are early career faculty members and advanced postdoctoral fellows who have demonstrated the aptitude and commitment to clinical and translational science and have a high probability of obtaining extramural funding after the training program.

Applicants Must:

  • Possess a research or health-professional doctoral degree or its equivalent.
  • Have a faculty appointment at the Instructor or Assistant Professor level at one of the participating Tufts CTSI partner institutions, including all Tufts schools and centers, affiliated hospitals, and academic partner institutions (Brandeis University, MIT, Northeastern University, and RAND Corporation). For post-doctoral applicants, an institutional letter is needed indicating a faculty appointment will be provided within the first 12 months.
  • Be a U.S. citizen, non-citizen national, or permanent resident.
  • Commit to a minimum of nine calendar months (75% time) of full-time professional effort for career development and research activities associated with the program. The remaining three calendar months can be divided among other research, clinical and teaching activities if these activities are consistent with the proposed goals of the K12 program. The K12 program provides support for a minimum of two years of consecutive funding for each scholar, with the option of applying for a third year.
  • Have a mentoring team to foster training in team science and promote interdisciplinary research. The team will include a primary mentor to oversee overall career development and research activities and secondary mentors and/or consultants to enhance interdisciplinary research and support research activities.
  • Mentors not listed here can apply for approval by providing their biosketch with the application. Mentors are expected to have their own research activities and research funding. If the primary and secondary research mentors are not from the candidate’s home department, an additional departmental mentor should be included in the mentoring team to ensure the goals of the scholar are coordinated with the home department.
  • The Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) Centerwill provide a statistical mentor to support research activities.
  • Not simultaneously submit or have pending an application for any other Public Health Service (PHS) mentored career development award (e.g., K07, K08, K22, K23) that duplicates any of the provisions of the K12 program.
  • Former or current principal investigators on any NIH research project grant (this does not include NIH Small Grants (R03) or Exploratory/ Developmental (R21) grants or their equivalents) or equivalent non-PHS peer reviewed research grants that are over $100,000 direct costs per year, or project leaders on sub-projects of program project (P01) or center grants (P50) are NOT eligible to participate as K12 scholars.

Appointed K12 scholars may apply for individual mentored K awards (e.g., K07, K08, K22, K23); if successful, the K12 appointment would be terminated, and funding will be received from the new individual K award.

BIRCWH Eligibility Requirements

Eligible applicants are junior faculty members early in their career who have demonstrated the aptitude and commitment to women’s health or sex and gender differences and have a high probability of obtaining extramural funding after the training program.

Applicants Must:

  1. Possess a research or health-professional doctoral degree or its equivalent.
  2. At time of appointment, have no more than eight years of research or research training experience beyond their last doctoral degree. (Please contact Tufts.MC.Research.Career.Awards@tuftsmedicine.org if you have any questions regarding this eligibility.)
  3. At the time of the award, have a faculty appointment at the Instructor or Assistant Professor level at one of the Tufts schools. Current fellows or postdocs with commitments of faculty positions at the Instructor or Assistant Professor level are eligible to apply with a statement from their Chair that a faculty appointment will be conferred before BIRCWH funding begins. BIRCWH funds cannot be used during fellowship training.
  4. Be a US citizen, non-citizen national, or permanent resident.
  5. Commit to a minimum of nine calendar months of full-time professional effort for career development and research activities associated with the program. The remaining three calendar months can be divided among other research, clinical, and teaching activities if these activities are consistent with the proposed goals of the BIRCWH Program. The BIRCWH Program provides support for a minimum of two years of consecutive funding for each scholar, with the potential option of applying for a third year.
  6. Have a mentoring team to foster training in women’s health or sex and gender differences. The team will include a primary mentor to oversee overall career development and research activities and a secondary mentor(s) to enhance interdisciplinary research and support research activities.
  7. Not simultaneously submit or have pending an application for any other Public Health Service (PHS) mentored career development award (e.g., K07, K08, K22, K23) that duplicates any of the provisions of the BIRCWH Program.
  8. Former or current principal investigators on any NIH research project grant (this does not include NIH Small Grants (R03) or Exploratory/ Developmental (R21) grants or their equivalents) or project leaders on sub-projects of program project (P01) or center grants (P50) are NOT eligible to participate as BIRCWH scholars.
  9. Appointed BIRCWH scholars may apply for individual mentored K awards (e.g., K07, K08, K22, K23); if successful, the BIRCWH K12 appointment would be terminated and funding will be received from the new individual K award.