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MOSAIC postdoc-to-faculty transition awards

MOSAIC added something the regular K99/R00 doesn't have: a cohort of fellow scholars and a scientific society running career development for them.

By the TWD Programs Guide editors · Updated · 1 min read

Reported ended in April 2025 Checked November 7, 2026

Mechanism
K99/R00 individual awards plus UE5 cooperative agreements with scientific societies
Who it serves
Postdocs moving into independent faculty positions
Today
Not on NIGMS's 2026 list. The standard K99/R00 remains.

Short answer

MOSAIC (Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers) was an NIH program, led by NIGMS, that combined K99/R00 transition awards for postdocs with UE5 cooperative agreements to scientific societies, which ran cohort-based career development. MOSAIC was reported ended in April 2025.

What was MOSAIC?

MOSAIC was an NIH program that supported postdocs moving into independent faculty positions through two linked parts: a K99/R00 award for the individual and a UE5 cooperative agreement that funded a scientific society to run career development for a cohort of scholars. The name stood for Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers.

The K99/R00 part worked like the standard Pathway to Independence award, with a mentored postdoc phase followed by an independent phase once the scholar took a faculty job. The society part was the distinctive element: workshops, networking and mentoring through professional societies over several years.

What happened?

A FASEB post on April 4, 2025, cited in contemporary reporting, said MOSAIC had ended, and a society award supporting MOSAIC scholars was also reported as no longer funded. MOSAIC is not on NIGMS's 2026 list of current programs.

What's left for the transition?

The standard K99/R00 continues and has no citizenship requirement. Workshops like the earlier Postdoctoral Preparation Institutes show the kind of career-transition content that institutions and societies can still offer on their own.

Questions people ask

What happened to current MOSAIC scholars?

Reports in April 2025 said the program had ended and that at least one society award supporting MOSAIC scholars was no longer funded. Individual scholars' situations varied, so anyone affected should talk to their NIH program officer and institution.

Sources

  1. The Transmitter: NIH nixes funds for several pre- and postdoctoral training programs (April 8, 2025)

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