The reissued notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) Stephen I. Katz Early-Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (R01, Clinical Trial Not Allowed) supports innovative projects that represent a change in research direction for an early-stage investigator (ESI) and for which no preliminary data exist.
This NOFO is designed for ESIs who want to initiate a research project in an area different from their previous research focus or training experience, and therefore have not produced preliminary data. In fact, we will consider applications including preliminary data to be noncompliant with the NOFO’s instructions and withdraw them. Proposed research projects can rely on the ESI’s prior work and expertise as its foundation, but must not be an incremental advancement, expansion, or extension of a previous research effort.
The application must describe how the proposed new research direction is different from the ESI’s past work in a separate attachment entitled “New Research Directions.” For an application with multiple principal investigators (PIs), all PIs must be ESIs and the research direction must be a change in research direction for all PIs.
Direct questions about this initiative to NIAID’s scientific/research contacts listed at Table of IC-Specific Information, Requirements, and Staff Contacts for PAR-24-075.