NIDDK R56 Bridge Award (Proactive, Not)
Offers interim bridge awards for NIDDK projects needing short-term momentum before full-scale funding.
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) administers an R56 Bridge Award as its sole formal bridge mechanism, providing one to two years of interim research support to investigators whose R01 applications received meritorious peer-review scores but were not funded due to budget constraints or portfolio limitations. NIDDK's FY2026 funding policy states explicitly…
All NIDDK research areas. Awarded by NIDDK initiative to investigators with a recently scored but unfunded R01.
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