Description

The Innovative Project Award from the American Heart Association (AHA) is designed to support bold, creative research projects that have the potential to make major advances in cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular science. This program encourages proposals that introduce new paradigms, challenge existing ones, or approach problems from novel perspectives. Projects may span basic, clinical, or population health research and are open to any age group across the lifespan. Notably, preliminary data is neither required nor accepted, ensuring that funded projects are truly innovative rather than incremental extensions of prior work. There is also a special co-funded opportunity with the American Headache Society for projects focused on migraine or headache disorders and their effects on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health.