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NEW Common Fund FY25 High-Risk, High-Reward Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFO)

The NIH Common Fund has announced FY2025 funding opportunities for the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, Transformative Research Award, and Early Independence Award in the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. The program provides unique opportunities for exceptionally creative scientists to pursue highly innovative approaches to address major challenges in biomedical or behavioral research. Any research topic relevant to the broad mission of NIH is welcome. Please share this information widely.

• NIH Director's Pioneer Award (DP1 - Clinical Trial Optional - RFA-RM-24-002): The Pioneer Award supports individual scientists at any career stage with outstanding records of creativity who propose pioneering approaches to address major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research. See the Pioneer Award website for more information. 

Application deadline: September 9, 2024. Pre-application webinar on June 25, 2024, from 12:00-1:30 PM ET (registration link)  

• NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2 - Clinical Trial Optional - RFA-RM-24-003): The New Innovator Award supports early-stage investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative research ideas with the potential for broad impact. See the New Innovator Award website for more information. 

Application deadline: August 19, 2024. Pre-application webinar on June 25, 2024, from 2:00-3:30 PM ET (registration link)  

• NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional - RFA RM-24-004): The Transformative Research Award supports individuals or teams proposing exceptionally innovative and/or unconventional research projects with the potential to create or overturn fundamental paradigms. See the Transformative Research Award website for more information. 

Application deadline: September 3, 2024. Pre-application webinar on June 26, 2024, from 3:30-5:00 PM ET (registration link)  

• NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (DP5 - Clinical Trial Optional - RFA RM-24-005): The Early Independence Award provides a mechanism for promising early career scientists to move rapidly into independent research positions by omitting the traditional postdoctoral training period. See the Early Independence Award website for more information. 

Application deadline: September 6, 2024. Pre-application webinar on June 26, 2024, from 1:00-2:30 PM ET (registration link)

This is an updated list of many potentially interesting funding opps

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