(FOA)-Revolutionizing Innovative, Visionary Environmental Health Research (RIVER) (R35 Clinical Trial Optional); June 18, 2020

Agency

NIH

Description

The NIEHS Revolutionizing Innovative, Visionary Environmental health Research (RIVER) program is intended to provide support for outstanding investigators in the Environmental Health Sciences, giving them intellectual and administrative freedom, as well as sustained support to pursue their research in novel directions in order to achieve greater impacts. The program seeks to identify individuals, regardless of career stage, with a potential for continued innovative and impactful research and combine their existing investigator-initiated research into a single award to support the majority of their independent environmental health sciences research program.

Eligibility is determined by NIEHS after the receipt of applications on the intended application due date. Eligibility to apply to this FOA is limited to those individual PD/PIs who meet all of the following criteria:

• Is currently the PD/PI on at least one single investigator (i.e., not Multi-PD/PI) NIEHS-supported R01-equivalent (defined here as R01, DP1, DP2, or DP5) award that meets all of the following requirements:
• Be a single-PD/PI award, AND
• Has been supported by NIEHS for 4 years (i.e. active at the time of application and in Fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019 potentially including up to 1 year of no-cost extension within this period), AND
• Not be an NIH-defined clinical trial, unless that clinical trial meets the definition of a mechanistic clinical trial or a BESH trial, as defined in Section I of this FOA.

Because of the highly selective nature of the program, RIVER requires a Letter of Recommendation from a peer working in a similar domain of the environmental health sciences as well as a Letter of Support from the applicant Institution.

Activity Code

R35

Announcement Number

RFA-ES-20-009

Closing Date

June 18, 2020

Link to Full Announcement

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-20-009.html