NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award for Individual and Group Science (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Department of Health and Human Services
The NIH Director"s Transformative Research Award supports individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing bold, groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original, and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and improved clinical approaches, or develop transformative technologies. Applications in any area within the biomedical sciences are welcome; topics may involve basic, translational, or clinical research. No preliminary data are required. Projects must clearly demonstrate, based on the strength of the logic, a compelling potential to produce a major impact in a broad area of relevance to the NIH. The NIH Director"s
Funding
Award size
Not specified
Type
Grant
Dates
Deadline
Closing this month
Posted
06/29/2026
Closes
2026-09-03
Eligibility
Eligibility
City or township governmentsNonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher educationFor profit organizations other than small businessesOthers (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Small businessesPublic and State controlled institutions of higher educationNative American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher educationNative American tribal governments (Federally recognized)Private institutions of higher educationSpecial district governmentsState governmentsCounty governmentsIndependent school districtsPublic housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
Program
Funding area
Health - HL
Opportunity #
RFA-RM-27-003
Source
Status
Open
Market
Government
Level
Federal
Source
Grants.gov