K Awards
Since the K Award programs began, the ITM has awarded more than $7.5 million to over 40 junior investigators at multiple
ITM institutions, and many alumni have gone on to secure major grants and scale their projects to improve people’s
health..
ACCELERATE YOUR CAREER WITH A K AWARD!
The ITM administers the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Career Development (K12) Awards, including the Paul
Calabresi and Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) K12 Award programs. This funding opportunity is open to
all ITM institutions, including researchers at UChicago, Rush, Loyola University Chicago, Endeavor Health, and the Illinois
Institute of Technology.
Over 40
Junior
Investigators Awarded
120,000
Maximum
Salary
30,000
per year in
research support funds
7,560,000
$ Awarded
JOIN THE K COMMUNITY & LAUNCH YOUR CAREER
- Salary support for up to $120,000 plus fringe per year
- Research funds of $30,000 per year to spend on your research project or career development activities
- At least 75 percent protected time to focus on a clinical/translational research program of your choice (50% for awardees in surgical disciplines)
- Exclusive mentoring and educational opportunities from senior faculty
- Monthly career seminars
- City-wide K-Day and national networking opportunities
- Science communication training
Hear it from them
I didn’t realize how often I give talks to the same kind of audience (people within the field), but this experience made me realize I don’t communicate my science to people outside of the field, and how interesting it is to hear their
perspectives and the questions they had
Hanna Molla, PhD
University of Chicago
Instructor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
K SCHOLAR SUCCESS STORIES
Alison Wainer
Kirsten Dickens
Juan (JC) Rojas
Maylyn Martinez
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This project is supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) through Grant Numbers UL1TR002389, KL2TR002387, and TL1TR00238 that fund the Institute for
Translational Medicine (ITM). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the
official views of the NIH.
