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NIH-sponsored Mentored Career Development Award Grants (also known as “K Awards”) are the portals through which the majority of aspiring, independent academic investigators gingerly step into the large portfolio of NIH funding. Often young academic surgeons because of the labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of surgery do not take advantage of this very accessible funding potential.

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank Dr. Charles Lowenstein for his continued mentorship and permission to print his unpublished thoughts on grant research plans, Dr. Lester Gorelic who served the NIH for many years specializing in administering various types of Career Development Awards, and Josephine Allen for her assistance with the preparation of this chapter.

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  1. Department of Surgery and Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Malcolm V. Brock M.D.

  2. Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Malcolm V. Brock M.D.

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  1. Dept. Surgery, H4/750 Clinical Science Center, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Highland Avenue 600, MADISON, 53792, Wisconsin, USA

    Herbert Chen

  2. , Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science C, Houston, 77026, Texas, USA

    Lillian S. Kao

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Brock, M.V. (2011). Writing a Grant/Obtaining Funding. In: Chen, H., Kao, L. (eds) Success in Academic Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-313-8_12

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