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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
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
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
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