NIDCD Early Career Research(ECR) Award
Funds a self-contained project on hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech or language by a scientist starting an independent career.
A research grant with two gates: the investigator's career stage, and an unusually specific list of subjects.
The subjects are the institute's whole mission and there are seven of them: hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language. Both basic and clinical research count.
The applicant has to be a scientist beginning to establish an independent research career. The notice adds one …
Self-contained basic and clinical research projects on hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech or language by scientists beginning an independent research career, including secondary data analysis, methodology development, translational research, outcomes research and new research technology, intended to produce preliminary data for a subsequent research project application. Not for thesis or dissertation research. Clinical trials are optional.
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