NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Project Grant
Funds the early, conceptual stage of a project that may not work — where the payoff is a breakthrough or a genuinely new technique, method or model.
The standing National Institutes of Health announcement for work that is too uncertain for a full research project, and it says so in unusually plain terms.
The mechanism supports exploratory and developmental research projects at their early and conceptual stages. The notice states directly that these studies may involve considerable risk.
What justifies the risk is what could come out of it: a…
Exploratory and developmental research projects at their early and conceptual stages, which may involve considerable risk but could lead to a breakthrough or to novel techniques, agents, methodologies, models or applications with major impact on biomedical, behavioural or clinical research. Clinical trials are not accepted under this version.
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