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>> Kay Lund: Okay, this is Kay Lund from the Division of Biomedical Research Workforce at NIH, and I'm going to talk about writing an effective K Application. So NIH includes 27 institutes and centers, each of which has a different area of focus. So it's important to really know if you're going to put in a K Award, which institute should be the place to apply to. And I'll give you some direction as to how you might be able to do that. NIH has a pretty large budget, and this shows their breakdown of the budget. Only 2 percent of the entire NIH budget, which is $36 billion -- that was in 2018 -- goes to the career development, or K Awards. But the good news about that is the success rates of the individuals who are applying is actually pretty good. So what I'm going to focus on today are the K01, the K08, the K23, the K99 and the R00. The K25 is currently to support career development to the investigators with quantitative engineering backgrounds, but to go on and try and do something in biomedical research. There's a new K25 that is under development, so I'm not going to go into a lot of detail about that, because there aren't a lot of individuals who have a K25. It is important though for anyone who may be listening to this to know about the loan repayment programs, because if someone receives a K Award, they are eligible to apply for a loan repayment program. And also, the diversity supplements -- take a look at that. This may be something that if you're not yet ready to apply for a K Award but you wanted to apply for a diversity supplement first to get some experience, some data, that way those diversity supplements do help. So the other important thing, and I'll talk of them in a little more detail later, is definitely take a look at the NIH Research Training Website. This was launched in 2015. But one of the most important parts of this is that it has up to date information on all the active -- currently active -- K Award FOAs, so people at that early research career development kiosk is the place to go. So this gives you a little more detail. The K01 is a Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award, which is supportive postdocs and early career scientists. You have PhDs, typically. The K08 is a Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award, which is for those with a clinical degree; M.D., M.D. PhD., can be DVM as well, although a lot of the [INAUDIBLE] medicine scientists will apply for K01s. And then the K23 is a Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award, so it's to provide support for clinically trained professionals who have made a commitment to patient-oriented research. And then the K99, R00 is a Pathway to Independence Award. This is one that supports the initial mentored...