NIGMS

NIH Roadmap for Medical Research

New Pathwaysto Discovery

Re-engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise

Research Teamsof the Future

NIH

NIGMS

Re-engineering the Clinical Research

Enterprise

Public-PrivatePartnerships

High-riskResearch

Interdisciplinary Research Nanomedicine

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

StructuralBiology

Building Blocks, Biological Pathways

and Networks

Molecular Libraries

and Imaging

ImplementationImplementationGroupsGroups

New Pathways to Discovery

Research Teams of the Future

ClinicalEnterprise

NIGMS

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

NIGMS

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

NIGMS

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

NIGMS

NIGMS

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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