Support for Research Excellence First Independent Research (SuRE-First) Award
Funds a first independent research project for faculty who have never held any peer-reviewed external research grant.
The companion to the SuRE award, for an even narrower group: faculty who have never held any independent, peer-reviewed external research grant at all, not just an NIH one.
The research itself is the same broad menu — basic, social, clinical, behavioral, or translational science, wherever it falls inside an NIH institute's mission — funded at a resource-limited higher-education institution.
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Investigator-initiated biomedical research — basic, social, clinical, behavioral, or translational — by full-time faculty who have never held any independent, peer-reviewed external research 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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