Kickstart your research with a K career development award
The K Career Development Awards provides junior faculty with financial support and research training to develop the skills necessary to build a well-funded, collaborative career in clinical and translational research.
About the program
The University of Florida and Florida State University (UF+FSU) Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSA) Career Development Awards for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) provides 2 years of financial support and research training development for skills necessary to build a well-funded collaborative career in clinical or translational research.
Applications and eligibility
The CTSA welcomes applicants from any of the health science-related programs at UF, as well as the College of Medicine (COM) Jacksonville (JAX), UF Research and Education Center (Orlando), UF-Scripps Biomedical Research, and Sid Martin Incubator (Alachua). This opportunity is also open to FSU K2R Scholar Program participants through the UF-FSU partnership.
K12 funding is contingent upon UF-FSU’s NCATS K12 award (under review), with a projected start date of July 1, 2025, if selected for funding. If the K12 application is not funded this cycle, contingency funding will be sought to support competitive K12 scholar applications; however, funding is not guaranteed.
K12 Resource List
Resources for career development and training supported UF+FSU CTSA Hub can be found in this comprehensive list.
FSU K2R Program
Within the FSU K2R program, they house the NIH-funded K career development program and support early career investigators in developing K career development proposals and R-level research studies.
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K Career Development Award Info Sessions
The K Career Development Awards provides junior faculty with financial support and research training to develop the skills necessary to build a well-funded, collaborative career in clinical and translational research.
Advisory Committee
| Name | Appointment and department | college |
|---|---|---|
| Takis Benos, PhD | William Bushnell, Presidential Chaired Professor, Department of Epidemiology | UF College of Public Health and Health Professions |
| Jiang Bian, PhD | Professor, Chief Research Information Officer, UF Health | UF College of Medicine |
| Staja Booker, PhD | Assistant Professor, Behavioral Nursing Science | UF College of Nursing |
| Wesley Bolch, PhD | Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Engineering | UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering |
| Henna Budhwani, PhD, MPH | Professor and Director, Intervention Research and Implementation Science (IRIS) Lab | FSU College of Nursing |
| Irvin PeDro Cohen, PhD | Director, Local Initiatives Support Coalition (LISC) Jacksonville | UF Community Scientist – Jacksonville |
| Joe G.N. Garcia, MD | Associate Vice President for Research, UF Health | UF Scripps/College of Medicine |
| Faheem Guirgis, MD | Professor of Emergency Medicine, K12 Co-Director | UF College of Medicine |
| Rosemarie Fernandez, MD | Professor and Vice Chair of Faculty Development, Emergency Medicine | UF College of Medicine |
| Jatinder Lamba, PhD | Professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research | UF College of Pharmacy |