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Academy Members Receive NIH Common Fund Grants

New Innovator and Transformative Research Projects awards support game-changing research.

Published December 07, 2011

The National Institutes of Health announced that it is awarding $143.8 million to support research that "is neither incremental nor conventional," according to James M. Anderson, director of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, who guides the Common Fund's High-Risk Research program.

"The awards are intended to catalyze giant leaps forward for any area of biomedical research, allowing investigators to go in entirely new directions," with the goal of turning research into better health for the American public, says Anderson.

In 2011, the NIH awarded 13 Pioneer Awards, 49 New Innovator Awards, and 17 Transformative Research Projects Awards, all supported by the NIH Common Fund. A number of Academy members have been announced as winners of these prestigious awards.

Academy members Uttiya Basu, Columbia University; Aron M. Geurts, Medical College of Wisconsin; and Megan C. King, Yale University, received New Innovator Awards.

Academy members Thomas Hartung, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health; Thomas S. Kupper, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana Farber Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, and Harvard Medical School; F. Nina Papavasiliou, The Rockefeller University; and Margaret Elizabeth Ross, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, received Transformative Research Projects Awards.