Mentored Clinician Research Scientist Career Development Award (KC1)

The Mentored Clinician Research Scientist Career Development Award, opportunity PA-28-047, is a forecasted federal grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the National Institutes of Health. The opportunity is classified as discretionary funding under the Health category and is associated with Assistance Listing 93.113, Environmental Health. The forecast was issued on August 13, 2026, and the opportunity is expected to support clinician research scientists through a mentored career development award. The source identifies the National Institutes of Health as the agency and the Division of Biomedical Research Workforce as the grantor contact office. The purpose of the award is to provide clinician research scientists with a sustained period of protected time for intensive research career development under the guidance of an experienced mentor. The award is intended to prepare candidates who hold clinical doctoral degrees for future research independence. The source states that the protected research career development period may extend for up to five years. No additional allowable cost categories, prohibited expenditures, indirect cost limitations, subaward restrictions, or other spending rules are provided in the forecast. The opportunity does not require cost sharing or matching. Eligible organizational applicants include special district governments, private institutions of higher education, independent school districts, city or township governments, state governments, county governments, public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status other than institutions of higher education, for profit organizations other than small businesses, and small businesses. Eligibility also includes federally recognized Native American tribal governments and Native American tribal organizations other than federally recognized tribal governments. Additional eligible applicants include faith-based or community-based organizations, eligible agencies of the Federal Government, and U.S. territories or possessions. Foreign organizations are not eligible to apply. Non-U.S. components of U.S. organizations are also not eligible to apply. However, foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are allowed. The forecast does not identify restrictions limiting eligible U.S. applicants to particular states, counties, cities, or other sub-state areas. Accordingly, the opportunity has nationwide U.S. applicability based on the organizational eligibility presented in the forecast, while the stated restrictions on non-domestic applicants remain applicable. Because this is a forecasted opportunity rather than a posted application package, detailed submission mechanics and application components are not yet supplied in the provided source. The forecast does not identify a required letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, initial application, application questions, required uploads, evaluation criteria, review scoring factors, or other pre-application gating requirement. It also does not provide an explicit PDF notice or application link. Applicants therefore should rely on the future posted opportunity for the complete submission requirements rather than treating the forecast as a complete application solicitation. The opportunity was forecast on August 13, 2026. The estimated posting date is July 13, 2027, which is treated as the expected application opening date for data-entry purposes. The estimated application due date is October 12, 2027. The estimated award date is July 1, 2028, and the estimated project start date is also July 1, 2028. The fiscal year is 2028. No recurring or annual application schedule is stated, so recurrence is not inferred. The source does not provide an expected number of awards, award floor, award ceiling, or estimated total program funding. Questions may be directed to the Division of Biomedical Research Workforce by email at NIHTrain@mail.nih.gov.

The award is intended for clinician research scientists with clinical doctoral degrees seeking future research independence and provides up to five years of protected time for intensive research career development under an experienced mentor.