Predoctoral MD-PhD grants as indicators of future NIH funding success. Ghosh-Choudhary, S., Carleton, N., Nouraie, S. M., Kliment, C. R., & Steinman, R. A. JCI insight, 7(6):e155688, March, 2022.
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MD-PhD trainees constitute an important source of physician-scientists. Persistence on this challenging path is facilitated by success in garnering independent (R grant) support from the NIH. Published research tracks academic appointments and global R01 success for MD-PhD trainees but has not included information on future funding success of individual MD-PhD predoctoral grant holders. Here, we used data from the NIH RePORTER database to identify and track the funding trajectory of physician-scientists who received predoctoral grant support through the F30 mechanism, which is specific for dual-degree candidates. Male and female F30 awardees did not differ in their success in garnering K (postdoctoral training) grants, but, among F30 grant awardees, men were 2.6 times more likely than women to receive R funding. These results underscore the need for analysis of factors that contribute to the disproportionate loss of NIH-supported female physician-scientists between the predoctoral F30 and the independent R grant-supported stages.
@article{ghosh-choudhary2022,
	title = {Predoctoral {MD}-{PhD} grants as indicators of future {NIH} funding success},
	volume = {7},
	issn = {2379-3708},
	doi = {10.1172/jci.insight.155688},
	abstract = {MD-PhD trainees constitute an important source of physician-scientists. Persistence on this challenging path is facilitated by success in garnering independent (R grant) support from the NIH. Published research tracks academic appointments and global R01 success for MD-PhD trainees but has not included information on future funding success of individual MD-PhD predoctoral grant holders. Here, we used data from the NIH RePORTER database to identify and track the funding trajectory of physician-scientists who received predoctoral grant support through the F30 mechanism, which is specific for dual-degree candidates. Male and female F30 awardees did not differ in their success in garnering K (postdoctoral training) grants, but, among F30 grant awardees, men were 2.6 times more likely than women to receive R funding. These results underscore the need for analysis of factors that contribute to the disproportionate loss of NIH-supported female physician-scientists between the predoctoral F30 and the independent R grant-supported stages.},
	language = {eng},
	number = {6},
	journal = {JCI insight},
	author = {Ghosh-Choudhary, Shohini and Carleton, Neil and Nouraie, S. Mehdi and Kliment, Corrine R. and Steinman, Richard A.},
	month = mar,
	year = {2022},
	pmid = {35315356},
	pmcid = {PMC8986062},
	keywords = {Humans, Databases, Factual, Male, Female, Aging, Behavior, Biomedical Research, Physicians},
	pages = {e155688},
}

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