Funder: National Institutes of Health
Due Dates: September 26, 2025 | January 27, 2026 | May 24, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | September 28, 2026 | January 26, 2027 | May 26, 2027 | September 28, 2027 | January 26, 2028 | May 26, 2028
Funding Amounts: No budget limit; project period up to 5 years; typical NIH R01 budgets apply and must be well-justified.
Summary: Supports early stage investigators proposing innovative, basic experimental studies with humans in a new research direction, with no preliminary data allowed.
Key Information: Applications must not include preliminary data and must include a one-page attachment describing the change in research direction.