NIH Director's New Innovator Award Program (DP2)

Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number	RFA-RM-13-007
Companion Funding Opportunity	None
Number of Applications	See Section III. 3. Additional Information on Eligibility.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s)	93.310
Funding Opportunity Purpose	The NIH Director’s New Innovator (DP2) Award initiative supports a small number of early stage investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative new research approaches that have the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important problems in biomedical and behavioral research. The New Innovator Award initiative complements ongoing efforts by NIH and its Institutes and Centers to fund early stage investigators through R01 grants, which continue to be the major sources of NIH support for early stage investigators. The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award initiative is a component of the High Risk - High Reward Research Program of the NIH Common Fund.

Key Dates

Posted Date	August 8, 2013
Open Date (Earliest Submission Date)	September 25, 2013, September  17, 2014, and September 16, 2015
Letter of Intent Due Date(s)	Not Applicable
Application Due Date(s)	October 25, 2013, October, 17, 2014, and October 16, 2015, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date.