Investigator-Focused Award
Funds an established investigator's whole direction of research inside one NIH institute, instead of a single defined project.
Most NIH grants pay for one project with a defined endpoint. This one pays for a scientist's whole direction of travel instead.
What it funds is an investigator's program of research within the mission of a single NIH institute or center, at any career stage, including early-stage investigators. There is no pre-defined project with specific aims to write around — the case is for the person and th…
A single National Institutes of Health institute or center's standing award supporting an established investigator's whole program of research, at any career stage, rather than one pre-defined project with specific aims, so long as the work stays inside that institute's mission.
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