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The information in these pages is meant to provide general guidance. Instructions and procedures outlined in the funding opportunity, SF424 Application Guide, and NIH Grants Policy Statement take precedence over any information provided and should be referred to for complete and comprehensive directions.

This section provides steps and information needed to prepare a New Innovator Award application for submission and includes samples of past New Innovator Award applications. The guidance found here is not detailed, but it is specific to the New Innovator Award. For more detailed guidance on each step, go to the NIH Grants & Funding Application Guide website.

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Sample Applications

Always follow the funding opportunity and SF424 Application Guide's instructions for application format. Time has passed since these award recipients applied, and the samples may not reflect the latest format or rules.

The text of these applications is copyrighted. You may use it only for nonprofit educational purposes provided the document remains unchanged and the PI, the award recipient organization, and NIH are credited.

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Competition Year	PI Name	Institution Name	Title
2021	BLOSNICH, JOHN	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA	Shifting suicide prevention paradigms - Looking beyond clinical settings
2021	MOK, WENDY W K	UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT	Mapping polymicrobial interactions that modulate antibiotic persistence
2020	ALLEN, ALICIA M	UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA	Hormonal response to infant caregiving: A novel strategy to break the opioid relapse cycle during the postpartum period
2020	ARONOV, DMITRIY	COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY	Using a specialized behavior to study the neural mechanisms of episodic memory
2020	LI, YANRAN	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE	Reprogramming plant perception for novel plant natural products discovery
2020	ROHNER, NICOLAS	STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH	Starvation resistance and resilience of metabolic dysfunction in cavefish
2020	WHITE, KATHARINE ALICE	UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME	Roles for increased intracellular pH and heterogeneity in cancer
2018	ZANDERS, SARAH ELIZABETH	STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH	Models of Selfishness: Molecular and Evolutionary Analyses of the Wtf Meiotic Drivers

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