Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network (BPN): Small Molecule Drug Discovery and Development
Funds small-molecule drug candidates from a lab bench through Phase I testing, with NIH's own chemistry and toxicology experts on call.
An academic lab can often find a promising small molecule, but rarely has the pharmacology, toxicology and manufacturing muscle to get it into a person safely — and that gap is where a lot of good candidates quietly die.
This notice funds crossing it. Small-molecule drug discovery and development work runs in the investigator's own laboratory, with access to NIH-supported subject matter experts a…
Phased cooperative-agreement support for small-molecule drug discovery and development toward clinical testing, run in the investigator's own laboratory with NIH-supported subject matter experts and contract research organizations providing medicinal chemistry, pharmacokinetics, toxicology, formulation and GMP synthesis capacity through Phase I. Biologics are excluded.
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