NHLBI Career Transition Award (K22)

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-The NHLBI provides leadership for a national program in diseases of the heart, blood vessels, blood, and lungs, and in the use of blood and the management of blood resources. It plans, conducts, fosters, and supports an integrated and coordinated program of research, investigations, clinical trials, and demonstration and education projects relating to the causes, prevention, methods of diagnosis, and treatment (including emergency medical treatment) of cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary diseases. -The goal of the NHLBI K22 program is to provide highly qualified postdoctoral fellows with an opportunity to receive mentored research experience in the NHLBI Division of Intramural Research and then to provide them with bridge funding to facilitate the transition of their research programs as new investigators at extramural institutions. -To achieve these objectives, the NHLBI Career Transition Award will support two phases of research: an intramural phase and an extramural phase, for a total of four to five years of combined support. Transition from the intramural phase of support to the extramural phase is not automatic. Approval of the transition will be based on the success of the awardees research program as determined by an NHLBI progress review, which will take place no later than the end of the second year of the Intramural Support Phase, and the evaluation of a research plan to be carried out at the extramural institution.

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