Innovative Project Award
Innovative Project Award supports researchers pursuing unexplored ideas in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular science, funding innovative work that could lead to critical discoveries or major advances.
Funder: American Heart Association
Due Dates: December 9, 2026 (Required pre-proposal)
Funding Amounts: Supports allowable research costs, including personnel, supplies, equipment, travel, and human subjects
Summary: Supports unexplored, highly innovative ideas with potential for critical discoveries or major advances in cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular research.
Key Information: Preliminary data is neither required nor accepted as part of the proposal.
Description
The American Heart Association’s Innovative Project Award funds highly innovative, high-impact research that could lead to critical discoveries or major advancements in cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular science. Its central priority is to promote unexplored ideas that could accelerate progress through new research directions. Preliminary data is not required and is not accepted as part of the proposal.
The Association is the largest nonprofit, nongovernmental funder of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular research in the United States. Its broader research portfolio supports basic, clinical, population, and data science research. Within that mission, this award emphasizes the potential of new ideas to produce discoveries and developments of major significance. The project’s relationship to cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular diseases and/or brain health is an important consideration.
