Allowable Costs

Under the K25 mechanism, the NCI supports salary (up to $75,000 per year plus fringe benefits), research development support (up to $40,000 per year) for tuition, fees and books, research expenses, statistical services, and travel to research meetings. Ancillary personnel costs (mentors, secretaries and administrative assistants) are not allowed. Eight percent facilities and administrative costs (previously called indirect cost) is allowed.

Data Sharing

Under the NIH Data Sharing Policy, grantees are expected to engage in a timely release of final data sets that have been generated with NIH support for use by other researchers, provide a Data Sharing Plan that will achieve this objective, OR state why data sharing is not possible or appropriate. No Data Sharing Plan is required for the mentored K25 mechanism because it supports career development, rather than, a research grant. It supports salaries and other ancillary costs for individual awardees, but it does not provide support for the generation of research data, directly. With regard to the data generated by K25 grantees working in research environments funded by NIH research grants, it is the responsibility of the institutions that are awarded these research grants to share the data and provide acceptable Data Sharing Plans to the NIH as part of the research application.

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