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NIH Director's New Innovator Award

Funds early innovators with steady support for unconventional research concepts.

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The NIH Director's New Innovator Award is one of the NIH Common Fund's High-Risk, High-Reward Research awards and is aimed at Early Stage Investigators within 10 years of their final degree or postgraduate clinical training. It was established in 2007 to back highly innovative work from researchers early in an independent career.

The award goes to a single principal investigator and requires at l…

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Grants under NIH Director's New Innovator Award

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.

NIH Director's New Innovator Award
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Supports early-stage researchers with transformative ideas in high-risk biomedical studies.

$69.4M pool
Last verified: 29 May 2026Source: commonfund.nih.gov