Scout | NIH Directors Pioneer Award (DP1) for bold, high-impact innovative research (clinical trial optional)

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NIH Directors Pioneer Award (DP1) for bold, high-impact innovative research (clinical trial optional)

NIH’s Directors Pioneer Award Program funds individual scientists proposing unusually creative, high-risk, high-reward research with potential for major impact across key NIH mission areas. Applicants from diverse backgrounds and eligible institutions nationwide are encouraged, with topics spanning behavioral, social, biomedical, applied, and formal sciences, including basic, translational, or…

Source

Agency: National Institutes of Health

Award

Total Funding: $8.1M

Award Ceiling: $700,000

Eligibility

government

individual

industry:research

nonprofit

small_business

tribal

university

For profit organizations other than small businesses

Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)

Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

Private institutions of higher education

State governments

Keywords

nih

pioneer award

high risk high reward

clinical trial optional

common fund

innovative research

individual investigators

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