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Funds at least three interlocking projects on one heart, lung, blood or sleep question — a programme, not a collection of separate grants.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute funds program project grants for work across its whole remit — the heart, the blood and lymphatic vessels, the lungs and blood itself, including transfusion medicine and blood resources, sleep disorders, and reaching into implementation science, health disparities and translational research.
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A programme of at least three interrelated research projects on one complex biomedical theme within NHLBI's remit — the heart, blood and lymphatic vessels, lungs and blood, including transfusion medicine, blood resources, sleep disorders, implementation science, health disparities and translational research — optionally supported by shared core units.
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