1. NIH Roadmap for Medical Research

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

7. 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

8. nihroadmap.nih.gov