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NIH Director's Transformative Research Award

Funds interdisciplinary teams pursuing transformative projects through flexible long-term resources.

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The NIH Director's Transformative Research Award is the most flexible of the NIH Common Fund's High-Risk, High-Reward Research awards and is designed for work that could create or overturn a scientific paradigm. Established in 2009, it is open to both individual principal investigators and teams, which makes it the Common Fund option for cross-disciplinary proposals that need more than one expert …

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Grants under NIH Director's Transformative Research Award

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

NIH Director's Transformative Research Award
Open

Supports flexible multidisciplinary teams pursuing cross-field science with paradigm-shifting goals.

$31.2M pool·11 days
Last verified: 29 May 2026Source: commonfund.nih.gov