India Griffin asked 6 years ago
Neurosurgeons are allowed to put 50% effort instead of the normal 75%. Typically P.I’s are allowed to reduce their 75% effort down to 50% in the last 2 years.
Are Neurosurgeons allowed to reduce their effort below 50% in the last two years or is 50% the minimum effort.
dgriffit answered 6 years ago
The policy detailed in this notice is effective for currently active and for all future K awards. NIH recognizes that other Federal agencies are important resources to investigators pursuing biomedical and behavioral research and that funding from such agencies helps to sustain research laboratories also pursuing research within the mission of NIH. Therefore NIH is extending the policy of allowing NIH K awardees to reduce effort on the K award in the final two years of the award to all K awardees who compete successfully for peer-reviewed research awards from any Federal agency, if programmatic policy of the other Federal agency allows such an arrangement. Mentored K award recipients are encouraged to obtain funding from NIH or other Federal sources either as a PI on a competing research grant award or cooperative agreement, or as project leader on a competing multi-project award. Requested budgets for a competing research grant or a subproject on a multi-project grant should request appropriate amounts for the salary and associated costs for the K award recipient’s effort. At the time the research grant is awarded the effort required on the K award may be reduced to no less than 6 person-months (50% full-time professional effort at the grantee organization) and replaced by effort from the research award so that the total level of research commitment remains at 9 person-months (75% full-time professional effort) or more for the duration of the mentored K award. This change in policy applies to the following mentored K award activity codes: K01, K07 (developmental) K08, K22, K23, and K25, as well as individuals mentored through institutional K12 awards. To be eligible for salary support from peer-reviewed research awards from any Federal agency:
- The K award recipient must be one of the named PIs on a competing NIH research grant application (R01, R03, R15, R21, R34, or equivalent application from another Federal agency) or a sub-project director on a competing multi-component research or center grant or cooperative agreement application (P01, P50, U01, etc. or an equivalent application from another Federal agency).
- The K award must be active when the competing research grant application is submitted.
- The K award must be in its final two years before the reduction in effort to 6 person-months (50% full-time professional effort) is permitted.