Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant
Funds an early-stage investigator's pivot into a genuinely new research direction, for a project with no preliminary data at all.
Most NIH research grants want to see preliminary data proving an idea has legs. This one asks for the opposite — a genuinely new direction for which none exists yet.
The applicant has to be an early stage investigator, and the project has to represent a change in research direction for them. Applications must not include preliminary data — that is not a gap to explain away, it is the condition th…
Research project grants for early stage investigators proposing a genuine change in research direction, where no preliminary data exists for the proposed direction, supported by a required separate attachment describing that change. Clinical trials are not allowed.
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