Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA)
Funds a single NIGMS investigator's whole research program with one grant, instead of juggling several project-specific awards.
Applying for grant after grant, one research aim at a time, eats the hours a scientist could spend doing the research. This award replaces that pattern with one grant covering an investigator's whole NIGMS-relevant program instead.
Five goals are named directly: steadier funding so investigators can take on ambitious projects; freedom to follow a new direction as the science moves, rather than st…
A single R35 grant replacing multiple NIGMS project grants for one investigator's research program, aimed at stabilizing funding, giving freedom to follow new directions without being bound to aims proposed in advance, spreading funding more widely, and cutting the administrative load of managing several awards — open to eligible NIGMS-funded investigators and to New Investigators, with renewal open to current MIRA holders.
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