NIH Director's Transformative Research Award for Individual and Group Science
Funds bold, unconventional biomedical science with no preliminary data required — about seven awards from an $8 million pool.
This is NIH's award for the idea that is too strange to survive a normal review. It backs individual scientists or groups proposing bold, unconventional work that could create a new scientific paradigm, establish a genuinely new clinical approach, or produce a transformative technology.
The unusual part is that no preliminary data are required. Most NIH applications live or die on the evidence yo…
Bold, unconventional and high-risk biomedical research in any area — basic, translational or clinical — where the case rests on the logic of the idea rather than on preliminary data, and where success would create a new scientific paradigm, a new clinical approach, or a transformative technology.
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