Notice Number: NOT-GM-18-012

Key Dates
Release Date: December 11, 2017

Issued by
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

Purpose

The purpose of this Notice is to inform potential applicants for a Maximizing Investigators Research Award (MIRA) (R35) that NIGMS grantees whose only NIGMS R01 equivalent award is a multi-PD/PI grant are not eligible to apply for a MIRA. All other eligibility criteria remain the same.

Part 2. Section III.1. Eligible Individuals (Program Director/Principal Investigator)
Current language
Eligibility is restricted to PDs/PIs with at least one NIGMS R01 equivalent award (defined here as R01, R37, DP2, and SC1 awards) that was awarded funding in the fiscal year prior to the fiscal year of the MIRA application submission and whose project end date is in the same or subsequent fiscal year of the MIRA application submission.

Revised language noted in italics
Eligibility is restricted to PDs/PIs with at least one NIGMS single-PD/PI R01 equivalent award (defined here as R01, R37, DP2, and SC1 awards) that was awarded funding in the fiscal year prior to the fiscal year of the MIRA application submission and whose project end date is in the same or subsequent fiscal year of the MIRA application submission. PD/PIs whose only NIGMS research grant is a multi-PD/PI grant are not eligible to apply for a MIRA.

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