NIH Director's Pioneer Award
Funds one exceptionally creative scientist to change direction entirely — eight awards of $700,000 each from an $8 million pool.
The Pioneer Award funds the person, not the project. NIH looks for individual scientists of exceptional creativity proposing bold, highly innovative work that could have a major impact on an important area of its mission.
There is one condition that makes this award unusual and easy to fail. To count as pioneering, the proposed research has to be substantially different in direction from what the…
Bold, highly innovative research in any area of NIH's mission — basic, translational or clinical — proposed by an individual scientist of exceptional creativity, and taking a substantially different scientific direction from what that investigator or anyone else is already pursuing.
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