Eligibility

The K08 mechanism is used to support the career development and research training of individuals with a health professional doctoral degree (e.g., M.D., D.O., D.V.M., Pharm. D., Ph.D. in nursing) committed to a career in laboratory or field-based research. This award may also be used to support a laboratory focused career development and research training experience in translational research. (Translational research uses knowledge of human biology to develop and test the feasibility of cancer-relevant interventions in humans and/or determines the biological basis for observations made in individuals with cancer or in populations at risk for cancer.)

Data Sharing

Under the NIH Data Sharing Policy, grantees are expected to engage in a timely release of final data sets that have been generated with NIH support for use by other researchers, provide a Data Sharing Plan that will achieve this objective, OR state why data sharing is not possible or appropriate. No Data Sharing Plan is required for the K08 mechanism because it supports a career development rather than a research grant. It supports salaries and other ancillary costs for individual awardees, but it does not provide support for the generation of research data, directly. With regard to the data generated by awardees working in research environments funded by NIH research grants, it is the responsibility of the institutions that are awarded these research grants to share the data and provide acceptable Data Sharing Plans to the NIH as part of the research application.

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