NIH Director's New Innovator Award (original) (raw)

Program Snapshot

Part of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, the award supports early career investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative research projects with the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important areas relevant to the NIH mission.

Single PI only
Must have Early Stage Investigator status (completed doctoral degree or postgraduate clinical training within last 10 years and never received a substantial NIH independent research award)
No preliminary data required
Minimum of 25% research effort
$1.5 million in direct costs split into two multi-year segments

See the Award Overview for more information.

NIH Director's New Innovator Award

RFA-RM-24-003

Applications due August 19, 2024

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