HEAL National K12 Clinical Pain Career Development Award

2025 Call for Applications

The Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center at the University of Michigan is requesting applications for the HEAL^[i] National K12 Clinical Pain Career Development Award (HEAL K12).

The HEAL K12 is a mentored career development program designed to provide protected time for clinicians and 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.

This award is intended for scholars who may not be ready for a traditional K-award or independent research (R) award, come from institutional environments that cannot adequately support the scholar’s career and/or research objectives, and/or who are unable to form a mentoring team that would make them competitive for a training or independent research award in clinical pain.

Applicants will have at least one home-institution mentor who will serve as their primary mentor. The HEAL K-12 program will then work with the scholar to match them with a senior pain research mentor of national stature as well as mentors with lived pain experience. Training will occur primarily at the scholar’s home-institution. Scholars will commit a minimum of 75% of their effort to this award.

An informational webinar will be held September 11^th from 11AM-12PM EDT, register here: https://painresearchers.com/events/94674