The Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education
and
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Jointly Sponsored Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Awards (K08)
and
Mentored Patient Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23)

The Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education (TSFRE) and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) have wish to announce a program of jointly sponsored programs for Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Awards (K08) and Mentored Patient Oriented Research Career Development Awards (K23).

The Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education is pleased to acknowledge the generosity of The William J. von Liebig Foundation, Datascope Corporation, The Foundation for the Advancement of Cardiac Therapies, The Cross-Jones Fund directed at thoracic surgeon scientists in the early stages of their research careers and The Starr Foundation for supporting this program.

Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08)

Purpose
The purpose of the Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Awards (MCSDA) is to support surgeon scientists in the early stages of their research careers . the development of outstanding clinician research scientists.

Because of the focus on progression to independence as an investigator, the prospective candidate s should propose a period of study and development consistent with this goal and his or her previous research and clinical experience. For example, candidates with limited experience in a given field of research may propose find a phased developmental 5-year program lasting for five years, which that includes a designated period of didactic training and supervised research experience as the most efficient way to begin to work toward means of attaining independent funding for future research work. Each candidates with substantial previous research experience might propose a 3-year research project preparatory to application for independent research funding from NIH and/ or another major competitive funding source may require a shorter award period appropriate for the transition to independence. The entire program should be comparable in scope and rigor to meeting the requirements of an advanced research degree.

Purpose
This award is designed to support the training of clinically trained professionals who have made a commitment to focus on patient-oriented research. For the purpose of this award, patient-oriented research is research conducted with human subjects (or on material of human origin such as tissues, specimens, and cognitive phenomena) for which an investigator interacts directly with human subjects.