Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Award
Funds a faculty member's own research project at a resource-limited college, for those with no current NIH project grant.
Most NIH research money concentrates at a small number of universities. This award exists for the faculty everywhere else — at colleges that receive little NIH funding and could not otherwise build a lab.
What it supports is investigator-initiated research in basic, social, clinical, behavioral, or translational science, as long as it falls inside an NIH institute's mission — which in practice co…
Investigator-initiated biomedical research — basic, social, clinical, behavioral, or translational — by full-time faculty not currently funded by any NIH Research Project Grant, at higher-education institutions with limited NIH funding, combining the applicant's own study with undergraduate and graduate research training.
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