Lasker Clinical Research Scholar's Program
Funds a two-phase career bridge — years as an NIH intramural investigator, then support to move to an outside research facility.
Most career-transition awards move a researcher from training straight into an outside institution. This one is built differently: it puts the researcher inside NIH first, as a tenure-track investigator with their own budget, before any decision about leaving is made.
Phase one runs 5 to 7 years as an NIH Intramural Research Program investigator, with an independent research budget — effectively …
The Lasker Clinical Research Scholars Program: a two-phase award supporting a clinical researcher's transition to full independence, combining up to 5 to 7 years as a tenure-track NIH intramural investigator with independent research funding, followed by up to 3 years of NIH support at an extramural research facility — or the option to stay within the intramural program instead.
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