I'm curious why you are asking this?  I thought NIH wanted to help people
finish being post-docs and then move into independent faculty positions.
The instructor position is a notoriously vague title...and often (depends
on institution)...occupied by people who are not going to do the usual
post-doc to faculty transition that most of the research stars do.  So...I
think reviewers might be confused as well...and confused reviewers are not
a good thing.

Are you doing this becuase the person has already been a postdoc for 5+
years???   If so...maybe they will not be competitive.

But I am also curious about the K99 awards:  have there been any yet?  We
need to see who is getting these.

Charlie

> Does anyone have an experience with this new funding mechanism?
> Specifically, we have a post-doctoral fellow who is applying for this
> award.  We are trying to determine whether she should continue as a
> post-doctoral fellow for the first two years or whether she
> can/should have a different type of appointment (lecturer or
> instructor).  Any feedback would be appreciated.
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