Announcing a funding opportunity for the NIH Transformative Research Awards:
- Seeking exceptionally innovative, high risk, original and/or unconventional research with broad impact
- Individual or multi-PI applications permitted
- Clinical, basic, and/or behavioral/social science research projects
- Large budget applications welcome
The deadline for submitting Transformative Research Award applications is October 9, 2015. Letters of Intent are due by September 9, 2015. See the Funding Opportunity Announcement RFA-RM-15-005. Additional information, including Frequently Asked Questions, is available on the Transformative Research Award website. Send questions to Transformative_Awards@mail.nih.gov.
The Transformative Research Award is part of the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Program, which provides unique funding opportunities for exceptionally creative scientists who propose highly innovative approaches to major challenges in biomedical research.
The NIH Common Fund (formerly the NIH Roadmap) encourages collaboration and supports a series of exceptionally high impact, trans-NIH programs. These programs are supported by the Common Fund, and managed by the NIH Office of the Director in partnership with the various NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) -"The Nation's Medical Research Agency" - includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about the NIH and its programs, visit the NIH website.