The NHLBI Outstanding Investigator Award supports experienced investigators with multiple NHLBI R01-equivalent awards by providing up to seven years of flexible funding to pursue innovative and high-risk research programs within heart, lung, blood, and sleep sciences. This award promotes scientific productivity, innovation, and mentoring by enabling investigators to explore new directions without being bound to specific aims and reducing administrative burdens.
Eligible applicants include a wide range of U.S. organizations such as public housing authorities, nonprofits, for-profits, tribal governments, educational institutions, and government entities. Non-domestic entities and foreign organizations are not eligible to apply, though foreign components of U
