NIA Career Transition Award (K22 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Three-year NIH K22 awards that provide protected time, salary, and research support for mentored researchers transitioning to tenure-track faculty positions conducting NIA-relevant research, without clinical trials.
⚑ K22 career transition mechanism; applicant must plan to start a tenure-track faculty position within 1 year of award · Independent clinical trials not allowed · Foreign organizations/components and foreign components are not allowed
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 92 strong | portfolio topics: public_health, mental_behavioral_health (primary); social/behavioral work is substantial; funds basic research |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 55 good | technical depth: minor; funds basic research |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 15 none | deep-tech content; no commercialization signal |
Description
The purpose of the NIA Career Transition Award (CTA) is to facilitate the transition of mentored researchers to tenure-track faculty conducting research that advances the mission of NIA. This three-year award provides protected time through salary and research support and is targeted at applicants who plan to start a tenure-track faculty position within a year of the award.
Eligibility
Other Eligible Applicants include the following: Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions; Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISISs); Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government; Faith-based or Community-based Organizations; Hispanic-serving Institutions; Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized); Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations); Regional Organizations; Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs) ; U.S. Territory or Possession; Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Organizations) are not eligible to apply.Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply.Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are not allowed.
Apply
View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: National Institutes of Health <grantsinfo@nih.gov>
Proposal brief
Proposal shell · National Institutes of Health conventions
Legacy IPPRA LLM assessment (v2.0, for comparison)
28/100 · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-06
This is an NIH career-transition mechanism aimed at advancing aging-related biomedical research, not a program centered on IPPRA’s core survey, risk-communication, or policy-research strengths. It is eligible for U.S. institutions like public universities, but it primarily funds individual investigator development and clinical/biomedical research rather than a substantial social/behavioral research agenda, so fit is weak.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 28 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is an NIH career-transition mechanism aimed at advancing aging-related biomedical research, not a program centered on IPPRA’s core survey, risk-communication, or policy-research strengths. It is eligible for U.S. institutions like public universities, but it primarily funds individual investigator development and clinical/biomedical research rather than a substantial social/behavioral research agenda, so fit is weak. |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is an NIH NIA career transition award focused on aging research and protected time for early faculty, not on IPPRA’s core policy/behavioral portfolio areas. Public universities are eligible, but the opportunity is for individual mentored clinical researchers and the topic is not specified as a fit for weather, energy, national security, public health crisis response, or environmental policy. |