NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Description
The NIH Common Fund supports individuals or teams pursuing exceptionally innovative, unconventional research with the potential to create or overturn major paradigms across biomedical and behavioral science.
Eligibility
Open to individuals or teams of scientists at any career stage proposing research broadly relevant to the NIH mission.
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