Deadline: 12-Mar-25
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking applications for its Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award in Tobacco Regulatory Research.
The purpose of the Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award in Tobacco Regulatory Research (K01) is to provide support and protected time (three, four, or five years) for an intensive, supervised career development experience in biomedical, behavioral, and social science research that will inform the development and evaluation of regulations on tobacco product manufacturing, distribution, and marketing and that will lead to research independence.
The overall goal of the NIH Research Career Development program is to help ensure that a diverse pool of highly trained scientists is available in appropriate scientific disciplines to address the Nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs. NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) support a variety of mentored and non-mentored career development award programs designed to foster the transition of new investigators to research independence and to support established investigators in achieving specific objectives.
Priorities
- Determination of smoking, heat-generating, or aerosol-generating regimen to be used for measuring harmful and potentially harmful constituents (HPHC) in smoke (e.g., cigarettes, pipes) and aerosols (e.g., ENDS, heated tobacco products);
- Identification, quantification, and determination of the formation of the chemical constituents of novel tobacco products, including ENDS aerosols or other aerosol-generating tobacco products;
- Determination of relationship between the nonadjustable or user adjustable design parameters of heating element temperature/wicking material/air flow of ENDS devices or other aerosol-generating tobacco products and constituent yields/particle size in the aerosol;
- Determination of the relationship between waterpipe materials/design of waterpipe devices and constituent yields in the waterpipe smoke;
- Development of internationally recognized analytical methods applicable to various tobacco types;
- Development of methods to evaluate nicotine release across different smokeless tobacco products (e.g., snuff/dip, snus, chew);
- Characterization of the antimicrobial activity of propylene glycol (PG), vegetable glycerin (VG), and flavor ingredients;
- Determination of relationship between humectant concentration or type and water activity of waterpipe, pipe, and cigar tobacco;
- Characterization of the relationship between intrinsic/extrinsic factors (e.g., battery design; environmental conditions, use conditions [e.g., changing battery, charging]) and ENDS battery overheating, fire, or explosion incidents.
Funding Information
- FDA CTP will contribute up to $90,000 per year toward the salary plus applicable fringe of the career award recipient.
- The total project period may not exceed 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Small businesses
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Independent school districts
- Others
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344458