NIH Research Specialist Award (R50)
Funds Research Specialist Award, NIH's R50 mechanism.
The Research Specialist Award (R50) is the Research Specialist Award is designed to encourage the development of stable research career opportunities for exceptional scientists who want to pursue research within the context of an existing research program, but not serve as Principal Investigators. The Award is intended to provide desirable salaries and sufficient autonomy so that individuals are n…
Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.
Funds salary and travel for a skilled laboratory or core-facility scientist at NCI-funded programs who will never be the grant's principal investigator.
Funds salary support for a clinician scientist who leads and sustains NCI's clinical trials networks without being a grant's principal investigator.
Funds the salary of a research software engineer building and sharing biomedical, behavioural or health software, tools and algorithms.