2008 NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program (DP1)
Submission Date: January 16, 2008
Anticipated number of awards: 5-10 awards
Award Ceiling: Awards will be for $500,000 in direct costs each year for five years.
The NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program is meant to complement NIH's traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering and possibly transformative approaches to major contemporary challenges that have the potential to produce a major impact in a broad area of biomedical or behavioral research. To be considered pioneering, the proposed research must reflect ideas substantially different from those already being pursued in the investigator's laboratory or elsewhere.
