Clinical Research Education and Career Development (CRECD)
Program Description
The CRECD awards assist eligible institutions in the development and implementation of curriculum-dependent programs to train early-career investigators (postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty) in clinical research. The awards support creative and innovative training and mentored clinical research experiences to promote the development of well-trained clinical researchers who can independently lead clinical and translational research.
Goals
- Complement and/or enhance the training of a heterogeneous scientific workforce to meet the nation’s clinical and translational research needs.
- Develop a group of clinical scientists who have the necessary knowledge and skills to pursue clinical research and can become part of translational and/or patient-oriented research, particularly on diseases that disproportionately affect populations that experience health disparities.
Eligibility
The CRECD program supports projects at domestic institutions located in the United States and its territories that:
- Award doctorate degrees in the health professions or the sciences related to health.
- Received less than $10 million per year (total costs) in research project grant (R01) support from the NIH averaged over the past three fiscal years.
- Have a documented historical mission to educate students from any of the populations that have been identified as underrepresented in biomedical research as defined by the National Science Foundation (NSF) or have a documented historical commitment to recruiting, training and/or educating, and graduating underrepresented students as defined by NSF (see above) who pursue biomedical research careers.
Page updated Aug. 7, 2024
