NIH has a new career development program for the clinician scientist, the Lasker Clinical Research Scholar. Scientists who successfully compete to become a Lasker Clinical Research Scholar will spend five to seven years in our intramural program. They will then be offered the opportunity to either stay at NIH as a senior clinical researcher or apply for up to five years of support to go back out into the extramural community. The program is open to clinician scientists from both the extramural and the intramural communities. Applicants must have an MD, MD/PhD, DO, DDS, DMD, RN/PhD, or equivalent clinical degree and must be no more than six years from completion of their core residency training program. The deadline is March 4, 2011 for a letter of intent and April 4, 2011 for the full application. Candidates must also obtain a DUNS number and register with the NIH eRA Commons prior to submitting an application. More information, including the RFA, is at http://www.nih.gov/science/laskerscholar. Direct any questions about this program to Charles R. Dearolf, Ph.D., Assistant Director for Intramural Research, at LaskerScholar@nih.gov.