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Office of Intramural Research (OIR)
Director's Challenge Innovation
Award Program
 The NIH Director's Challenge Innovation Award Program aims to encourage trans-NIH collaborations and to provide seed money for innovative and high-impact research. The goal is to stimulate new and even risky research projects, rather than to expand ongoing efforts.
The NIH Office of Intramural Research requests applications from intramural Principal Investigators. Preference is given to projects in chosen research areas, or themes, for that round’s competition. For the FY2011 award period, the program made thirteen one-year awards ranging from $70,000 to $150,000 per project. The themes were:
Translational Research and Biomarkers
Methodology and Technology Development
High-throughput Technologies, including RNAi Screening.
The next competition will be held in FY 2012. A call for applications will be made soon.
Image: A scanning electron micrograph depicting numerous clumps of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, MRSA. The bacteria commonly are carried on the skin or in the nose of healthy people. (Janice Haney Carr and Jeff Hageman, CDC)
For more information,
contact:
Dr. Charles Dearolf
Assistant Director for Intramural Research
Building 1, Room 152
301-402-1225
dearolfc@mail.nih.gov
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