Eligibility

• This FOA targets New and Early Stage Investigators integrating engineering and physical sciences with the biomedical sciences. Eligible individuals must be a) NIH-defined Early Stage Investigators; or b) NIH-defined New Investigators (https://grants.nih.gov/policy/early-investigators/index.htm).
• For applications with multiple PDs/PIs, all PDs/PIs must be eligible to apply for this award.

Funding Priorities

• This Trailblazer Award is an opportunity for New and Early Stage Investigators to pursue research programs of interest to the NIBIB at the interface of engineering and/or the physical sciences with the biomedical sciences.
• The application of principles and techniques from engineering and the quantitative sciences, such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, and computer sciences, is providing innovative technologies and novel methods to accelerate the pace of biomedical research, producing new understanding of disease mechanisms and translating these new discoveries to improve human health. The Trailblazer Award seeks to catalyze the development of transdisciplinary research approaches with the potential to open new areas of biomedical investigation.
• A Trailblazer project may be exploratory, developmental, proof of concept or have high risk-high impact goals. Importantly, the proposed research for this FOA may be technology design-directed and may or may not be hypothesis-driven.

Additional Information

• Budget amount is for direct costs only.
• No more than $200,000 direct costs may be requested in any single year.
• To determine if your research fits within the NIBIB mission, please contact the appropriate Program Director in your scientific program area of interest (https://www.nibib.nih.gov/research-funding).