The NIH Director's Bridge Award Program, initiated last year, is designed to provide transitional funding for Research Project Grant (R01) investigators who just miss the nominal payline of a given institute on a renewal application and have limited additional research support (see NOT-OD-08-037).

An institute or center can nominate an investigator for an award of up to $500,000 total costs using the one-year R56 mechanism. Only principal investigators with less than $400,000 in other support are eligible for Bridge support. In this year's program, investigators who have submitted a second revision of an application (A2) with a percentile within five points of the institute or 2enter’s payline are also eligible to be nominated.

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