NIH Seeks Proposals for 2009 Director's Pioneer and New Innovator Awards
NIH welcomes proposals for 2009 NIH Director's Pioneer Awards and New Innovator
Awards. Both programs are part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research 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 career
investigators who have not received an NIH regular research (R01) or similar
NIH grant. NIH expects to make 5 to 10 Pioneer Awards and up to 24 New Innovator
Awards in September 2009. 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 Pioneer Award competition begins with a proposal submission period from
November 17 to December 17, 2008. See Pre-Application for the 2009 NIH Director’s
Pioneer Award Program (X02) (PAR-09-012) for instructions and http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/pioneer for more information. Send questions to pioneer@nih.gov.
The New Innovator Award competition begins with a proposal submission period
from December 15, 2008 to January 15, 2009. See Pre-Application for the 2009
NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (X02) (PAR-09-013) for instructions
and http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/newinnovator for more information. Send questions
to newinnovator@nih.gov.
The NIH’s new Transformative R01 Program (T-R01s) will allow highly creative,
“out-of-the-box” projects to be supported. The T-R01 Program represents a
High Risk/High Reward Demonstration Project in which novel approaches to peer
review and program management are to be piloted. The application submission
period is from December 29, 2008 to January 29, 2009. See http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/T-R01/ for more information. Send questions to T_R01@mail.nih.gov.
The NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, launched in 2004, is a series of initiatives
designed to address fundamental knowledge gaps, develop transformative tools
and technologies, and/or foster innovative approaches to complex problems.
Funded through the NIH Common Fund, these programs cut across the missions
of individual NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) and are intended to accelerate
the translation of research to improvements in public health. OPASI, in collaboration
with all NIH ICs, oversees programs funded by the Common Fund. Additional
information about the NIH Roadmap and Common Fund can be found at www.nihroadmap.nih.gov.
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