University of Michigan HEAL K12
The Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center at the University of Michigan is the administrative home for the HEAL National K12 Clinical Pain Career Development Award (HEAL K12).
The HEAL K12 is a mentored career development program designed to provide protected time for clinician scientists to focus on training in and conducting clinical pain research. Award provides up to $100,000/year in salary, fringe benefits up to $32,000, $2,500 for travel to professional meetings, and $50,000/year in research support costs, for up to 3 years, plus indirect costs at 8%.
This award is intended for scholars who may not be ready for a traditional K-award or independent research (e.g. R-series awards), come from institutional environments that cannot adequately support the scholar’s career and/or research objectives, and/or who are unable to form a mentoring team that would make them competitive for a training or independent research award in clinical pain research.
Training occurs primarily at the scholar’s home-institution. Scholars commit a minimum of 75% of their effort to this award.
HEAL K12 scholars develop their own tailored training program that includes:
• Remote didactic training in pain science.
• Completion of a clinical research project, that could be used to provide pilot data to support future grant applications.
• Didactic course work in regulatory sciences, research ethics, biostatistics, patient/community engagement and/or specialty electives relating to topics of interest.
• Attendance at career development seminars, pain conferences, and the 3-day NIH PURPOSE Conference on Pain Education (required).
• Presentation of research through local, national, and international events, UM Pain Short Course (required).
• Cross-disciplinary mentoring designed to assist with career development and research.
For questions regarding this opportunity please email: UM-HEALK12@umich.edu