NIH Research Project Grant
Funds a defined research project in the investigator's own area of expertise, through the announcement most NIH institutes keep permanently open.
This is the widest door in United States biomedical funding. Most institutes keep it open permanently rather than publishing their own announcement for ordinary research, and most of the research project money NIH awards comes through it or its siblings.
What it supports is described in the same words the mechanism itself uses: a discrete, specified, circumscribed project, in an area representing…
Discrete, specified, circumscribed research projects in areas representing the investigator's own interests and competencies, relating to the programmatic interests of one or more participating National Institutes of Health institutes and centres. Clinical trials are not accepted under this version.
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