DoW Tick-Borne Disease Idea Development Award
Funds a conceptually new, unproven idea in tick-borne disease research — not an incremental step on work that is already published or underway.
Most tick-borne disease research money rewards the next logical step. This award is written for the opposite case — a genuinely new question, not a better version of an old one.
The fiscal year 2026 Tick-Borne Disease Research Program's Idea Development Award funds conceptually innovative research aimed at reducing the burden of Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases and conditions, and impro…
Conceptually innovative, paradigm-challenging research reducing the burden of Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases and conditions, explicitly excluding incremental extensions of published or ongoing work, funded under the fiscal year 2026 Tick-Borne Disease Research Program. A Career Development Option is available for early-career investigators, reviewed separately and capped at a lower cost limit.
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