NIH Common Fund's High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program: Supporting Innovative Biomedical Science
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The NIH Common Fund's High-Risk, High-Reward Research (HRHR) program supports exceptionally creative scientists pursuing highly innovative biomedical, behavioral, and social science research. The program targets high-impact ideas that are too risky or premature for traditional peer review, encouraging outside-the-box thinking within the NIH mission. It covers information on awards, applications, symposia, and announcements related to the program.
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The program seeks to identify scientists with high-impact ideas that may be risky or at a stage too early to fare well in the traditional peer review process.
The program encourages creative, outside-the-box thinkers to pursue exciting and innovative ideas in any area of biomedical, behavioral, or social science within the NIH mission.
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