NIH 2008 Bridge Awards
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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