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HEAL* National K12 Clinical Pain Career Development Award (HEAL K12)

The Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center at the University of Michigan is the administrative home for the HEAL National K12 Clinical Pain Career Development Award. The HEAL K12 is a mentored career development program designed to provide protected time for clinician scientists to focus on training in and conducting clinical pain research. Award provides up to $100,000/year in salary plus fringe benefits, and $50,000/year in research support costs, for up to 3 years.

Key Dates

2025 Opportunity in Process

Informational Webinar : 09/11/2024
Letter of Intent Due Date: 10/15/2024
Invitation to Apply: 11/05/2024
Full Application Deadline: 02/05/2025
2025 Scholar Award Announcement : 05/01/2025
2025 Program Start Date: 06/01/2025

K12 Advisory Committee and Mentoring Group

The HEAL K12 Advisory Group is composed of 3 Directors and 1 Program Manager from the University of Michigan, 12 National Experts on topics of clinical pain research, and 10 individuals with lived pain experience. The Advisory group helps to shape direction of the HEAL K12 program, reviews scholar applications, and serves as source of mentors for the selected scholars.

Scholars

Each year, a new class of scholars is selected. With the mission of expanding the national workforce capable of conducting clinical pain research, these scholars come from diverse personal, institutional, geographic, disciplinary, and specialty backgrounds.