NIH Seeks High Risk, High Impact Proposals

NIH Seeks High Risk, High Impact Proposals through NIH Director’s Pioneer, New Innovator, and Transformative R01 Initiatives (September 8, 2009)

NIH welcomes proposals for 2010 NIH Director's Pioneer Awards and New Innovator Awards. Both programs are part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov) and support exceptionally creative scientists who take highly innovative, potentially high-impact approaches to major challenges in biomedical or behavioral research.

Pioneer Awards provide up to $2.5 million in direct costs over 5 years and are open to scientists at any career stage. New Innovator Awards provide up to $1.5 million in direct costs over the same period and are for early stage investigators (ESI) who have not received an NIH regular research (R01) or similar NIH grant.

NIH expects to make at least 7 Pioneer Awards and at least 33 New Innovator Awards in September 2010.

To continue its strong record of diversity in these programs, NIH especially encourages women and members of groups that are underrepresented in NIH research to apply.The deadline for submitting Pioneer Award applications is October 20, 2009. See the instructions in the RFA (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-09-010.html, RFA-RM-09-010) and http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/pioneer for more information. Send questions to pioneer@nih.gov.

The deadline for submitting New Innovator Award applications is October 27, 2009. See the instructions in the RFA (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-09-011.html, RFA-RM-09-011) and http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/newinnovator for more information. Send questions to newinnovator@nih.gov.