Funding & Eligibility

Funding

The KL2 award provides two years of salary support at 75 percent of the awardee's institutional salary base within NIH guidelines. Fringe benefits are included. Surgeons may elect to receive as little as 50 percent of their institutional salary base (see eligibility requirements below). Educational programs within Harvard Catalyst will be tuition free. Each awardee receives $11,400 to be used for project-related expenses such as travel, supplies, patient and animal care, occasional office supplies and prorated PC costs, publication expenses, and salary support for lab personnel. Funding for awardees begins October 1. There are no indirect costs associated with this award.

Eligibility

We encourage applicants from all health disciplines who meet the following criteria:

• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident by the application deadline (those with visa status are not eligible to apply).
• Must hold a research or health-professional doctoral degree.
• Must be in the first three years of a faculty appointment at a Harvard Catalyst-affiliated institution or fellows who are on the cusp of their first faculty position (within 6-12 months) and can devote 75% of their time to research training.
• Must be able to commit 75 percent of professional effort to the program except for surgeons, who may be eligible to commit as little as 50 percent time. Salary provided will be commensurate with the percentage of effort committed to the program.
• Must ensure the remaining 25 percent of funding (that not provided by Harvard Catalyst) will come from a non-federal source.
• Must not be or have been a principal investigator on an NIH R01, or a project leader on a subproject of a Program Project (P01), Center (P50, P60, U54), mentored career development grant (K23, K08, K01, etc.), or equivalent non-PHS peer reviewed research grants that are over $100,000 in direct costs per year.
• Must not have a current application for another mentored K award (e.g. K23, KO8) submitted or under review.  For further clarification, please click here.
• Must be pursuing a career path and proposed program in human/translational research.