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ArticleJournal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education2024

Evaluation of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) Program.

Michael Schmidt, Corinne Boulanger-Espeut, Grace Liou, Nan Ma, Sasha Torres, Susan Cersosimo, Oliver Bogler, Nastaran Zahir

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Article in Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Productivity of National Cancer Institute K Awardees and Their Transition to Independent Funding.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Michael Schmidt *National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA.
Corinne Boulanger-Espeut *National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA.
Grace LiouNational Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA.
Nan MaDigital Science, Inc, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Sasha TorresNational Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA.
Susan CersosimoNational Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA.
Oliver BoglerNational Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA.
Nastaran ZahirNational Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA. nas.zahir@nih.gov.ORCID 0000-0002-7332-0705

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) K99/R00 award is intended to help postdoctoral scholars transition in a timely manner to research independence and to foster their development of an impactful cancer research program that is competitive for subsequent independent funding. Here we analyzed factors that impact peer review outcomes and evaluated whether NCI K99/R00 awardees have achieved the goals of the K99/R00 funding mechanism. Our analysis of the K99/R00 review criterion scores demonstrates that while all review criterion scores are positively correlated with the overall impact score, the Research Plan criterion is the strongest predictor of the overall impact score and funding outcomes. In addition, our analysis shows the NCI K99/R00 award facilitated the successful transition of postdoctoral scholars to research independence and enhanced the likelihood of K99/R00 awardees to secure subsequent R01-equivalent NIH grant support although not in an accelerated fashion as originally intended. An NCI K99/R00 award was not determined to be a prerequisite to obtain a faculty position, but for some awardees, it was an asset in that transition. Our results suggest that the NCI K99/R00 award is an important component for training and retention of the next generation of independent cancer researchers and to increasing the percentage of women and promoting the diversity of the cancer research workforce.

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Awards and PrizesNational Cancer Institute (U.S.)Biomedical ResearchHumansNeoplasmsProgram EvaluationResearch Support as TopicUnited StatesCareer developmentK99/R00NIH grants

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PMID38499846
PMCPMC11461553

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