nih k99 r00 award
How One Grant Fueled A Decade Of Groundbreaking Pediatric Research
In 2022 the NIH gave Professor Michael Kiefer a K99/R00 award, and that grant powered a ten-year wave of groundbreaking pediatric muscle disease discoveries. The funding acted as a career catapult, linking mentored training to independent research, and enabled Kiefer’s lab to secure subsequent R01 grants that expanded