NIH Welcomes Proposals for 2010 NIH Director’s Transformative Research Projects Program

A major goal of the NIH is to foster bold and creative investigator-initiated research.  In pursuit of this goal, the Transformative Research Projects Program has been created under the auspices of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research to enhance submission and support of exceptionally innovative, high risk, original and/or unconventional research that has the potential to have a profound impact in clinical, basic, and behavioral/social science arenas.

NIH Roadmap Transformative Research Awards provide up to $25 million total costs per year for a single project.  The NIH encourages applications for the Transformative Research Projects Program from scientists representting all disciplines relevant to the NIH mission, including the biological, behavioral, clinical, social, physical, chemical, computational, engineering, and mathematical sciences.  Interdisciplinary teams as well as individual investigators with bold ideas are encouraged to apply.

The deadline for submitting Tranasformative Research Project applications is January 22, 2010 with letters of intent due by December 22, 2009.  See the instructions in the RFA 
<http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-09-022.html> (RFA-RM-09-022).  Additional information, including Frequently Asked Questions about the Transformative Research Projects Program is available at: http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/T-R01/. Send questions to T_R01@mail.nih.gov.