NIH Announces New Clinical Research Curriculum Award

The National Institutes of Health announced today the first 35 recipients of a new Clinical Research Curriculum Award (called K30) designed to enhance future clinical research training. The total of the awards is $7 million.

These awards provide support to research institutions so that scientific investigators can receive didactic training in the fundamentals of clinical research. The didactic program will focus on multidisciplinary training in biostatistics, epidemiology, research project design, research ethics, legal and regulatory issues in human subject research, and other subjects.

The participants have a variety of clinical degrees and are now performing work supported by NIH training grants, other Federal awards, and/or non-Federal funds.

"NIH received so many high-quality applications for K30 awards," NIH Director Harold Varmus, M.D., explained, "that we funded 35 applications instead of our original goal of 20 awardees. It is very encouraging that there is so much enthusiasm for enhancing the quality and quantity of clinical research at a time when there are many scientific advances ready to be tested in the clinical arena."

All NIH components have contributed to the K30 program which will be administered by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. (See list of awardee institutions at end.)

In addition to K30 awards, NIH has two other new initiatives for clinical research training: the mentored patient-oriented research development award (K23), and the mid-career investigator in patient-oriented research award (K24).

K30 APPLICATIONS FUNDED - MAY 1999

Baylor College of Medicine Boston University Brigham and Women's Hospital Columbia University Health Sciences Duke University Medical Center Emory University Johns Hopkins University Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota Medical College of Wisconsin Michigan State University Mount Sinai School of Medicine New England Medical Center Hospitals, Incorporated Ohio State University Pennsylvania State University/The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research Stanford University University of Florida University of Alabama at Birmingham University of California, San Francisco University of Chicago University of Colorado at Boulder University of Michigan Medical Center University of North Carolina University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh University of Rochester University of Texas Health Science Center/Houston University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center/Dallas University of Wisconsin-Madison Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Wake Forest University School of Medicine Yale University Yeshiva University