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Concepts: Potential Opportunities

Concepts represent early planning stages for initiatives: program announcements, requests for applications, and requests for proposals.

Approval of a concept by NIAID's advisory Council, part of the planning process, does not guarantee it will become an initiative. That decision is based on scientific and programmatic priorities and the availability of funds.

Concepts can reveal possible initiatives or give you ideas for an investigator-initiated application. Read more in Application Approach: What Are Your Choices? and Concepts May Turn Into Initiatives. Find published initiatives at NIH Funding Opportunities Relevant to NIAID.

Follow the links below to concepts cleared by NIAID's Council at its last six meetings.

DAIDS DAIT DMID
May 2009 May 2009 -- none May 2009
January 2009 -- none January 2009 January 2009
September 2008 September 2008 September 2008
May 2008 May 2008 May 2008
January 2008 January 2008 January 2008
September 2007 September 2007 September 2007

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