Funding-NIH Director's Transformative Research Awards (R01); December 12, 2011

 

Department of Health and Human Services

Participating Organization(s)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Components of Participating Organizations

This FOA is developed as an NIH Common Fund initiative (http://commonfund.nih.gov/) through the Office of Strategic Coordination, Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Office of the NIH Director (http://dpcpsi.nih.gov/osc). This FOA is being administered by the Office of Strategic Coordination in the Office of the Director of the NIH (OSC-OD-NIH) on behalf of the NIH.

Funding Opportunity Title

NIH Director's Transformative Research Awards (R01)

Activity Code

R01 Research Project Grant

Announcement Type

Reissue of RFA-RM-10-010

Related Notices

None

Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number

RFA-RM-11-006

Companion FOA

None

Number of Applications

See Section III. 3. Additional Information on Eligibility.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s)

93.310

FOA Purpose

The NIH Director’s Transformative Research Awards complements NIH’s traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms. Little or no preliminary data are expected. Projects must clearly demonstrate potential to produce a major impact in a broad area of biomedical or behavioral research.

Key Dates

Posted Date

September 21, 2011

Open Date (Earliest Submission Date)

December 12, 2011

Letter of Intent Due Date

December 12, 2011

Application Due Date(s)

January 12, 2012, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.

AIDS Application Due Date(s)

Not Applicable

Scientific Merit Review

May 2012

Advisory Council Review

August 2012

Earliest Start Date(s)

September  2012

Expiration Date

January 13, 2012

Due Dates for E.O. 12372

Not Applicable

Required Application Instructions

It is critical that applicants follow the instructions in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide except where instructed to do otherwise (in this FOA or in a Notice from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts). Conformance to all requirements (both in the Application Guide and the FOA) is required and strictly enforced. Applicants must read and follow all application instructions in the Application Guide as well as any program-specific instructions noted in Section IV. When the program-specific instructions deviate from those in the Application Guide, follow the program-specific instructions. Applications that do not comply with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.

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Link to Full Announcement

 

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-11-006.html