NIH Roadmap for Medical Research

Computational Biology Re-engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise Public-Private Partnerships High-risk Research Interdisciplinary Nanomedicine Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Structural Biology Building Blocks, Biological Pathways and Networks Molecular Libraries and Imaging Implementation Groups Clinical Enterprise New Pathways to Discovery Research Teams of the Future

NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Intended to support individuals as opposed to projects Significantly simplified nomination (application) process Five-page essay 3 letters of reference Single representative work Supported through flexible spending authority

NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Multi-tiered review process Nominations review by NIH staff, outside reviewers Approximately 1/3 of nominees invited to apply Applications reviewed by outside reviewers ~20 finalists interviewed at NIH for final review Final review by Advisory Committee to Director, NIH Nine awards made in September 2004 >1300 nominations Each award $500K direct costs per year for five years >51% commitment of effort required

NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program re-announced for FY2005 with minor modifications Self-nominations only Women, underrepresented minorities, and individuals in early to mid-career especially encouraged to apply Direct discussion of why NDPA award is appropriate requested in essay More than 800 nominations received

NIH Director’s Pioneer Award 2005 NDPA awards to be announced by Dr. Zerhouni at Pioneer Symposium on September 29th in Masur Auditorium Symposium will include short presentations from all nine FY2004 awardees Roundtable discussion with awardees about high risk-high impact research

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