NIDA Avant-Garde Award
Offers support for innovative researchers pursuing high-impact HIV and substance use science across career stages.
The NIDA Avant-Garde Award uses the DP1 mechanism — a NIH Director's Pioneer-style grant — to fund exceptionally creative scientists pursuing high-impact research at the intersection of HIV and substance use. Unlike most NIH mechanisms, the Avant-Garde is open to investigators at all career levels, from early-stage researchers to established senior scientists. The program targets transformative ap…
High-impact, transformative HIV and substance use research that opens new prevention or treatment avenues, open to scientists at all career levels.
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