Closed · PAR-20-084 · CFDA 93.286 · Discretionary
NIBIB Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Federal grant opportunity posted by National Institutes of Health, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- Varies
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- January 7, 2023
- Close date
- -
- Expected awards
The verdict
NIBIB Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) is a closed discretionary listing from National Institutes of Health that offered Varies by applicant. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 12,419 other opportunities from National Institutes of Health.
- Varies
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 93.286
- CFDA program
- 12,419
- other opportunities from National Institutes of Health
Archived opportunity record
NIBIB Trailblazer Award for New and Early Sta… is closed (last close January 7, 2023). The parent program page for CFDA 93.286 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. National Institutes of Health still indexes 12,419 other opportunities here.
According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.
Deadline tracker
Application window closed
Closed January 7, 2023
Instrument
Grant
Description
This Trailblazer Award is an opportunity for New and Early Stage Investigators to pursue research programs of high interest to the NIBIB that integrate engineering and the physical sciences with the life and behavioral sciences. This FOA invites applications from researchers who are at the early stage of their independent careers or those who have not had substantial prior NIH funding. A Trailblazer project may be exploratory, developmental, proof of concept, or high risk-high impact, and may be technology design-directed, discovery-driven, or hypothesis-driven. Importantly, applicants are expected to propose research approaches for which there are minimal or no preliminary data. Preliminary Data: Trailblazer applications are meant to be exploratory, novel, and non-incremental. We encourage the submission of high-risk, high-reward projects. A distinct feature for this FOA is that no preliminary data are required, expected, or encouraged. However, if necessary, some minimal preliminary data is allowed. Minimal preliminary data are defined as material which the applicant has independently produced and not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal. Such evidence, if provided, should only be used to bolster and help establish the foundational premise for the Trailblazer application. All preliminary data must be clearly marked and limited to one-half page which may include one figure. Applications including data more than one-half page or more than one figure, will be considered noncompliant with the FOA instructions. Figures containing published data must include citations within the figure legend. Published data that is included in the research plan, biographical sketch or elsewhere in the application must be cited adjacent to each occurrence. Data that is published must be unambiguously identified as such within the application. References and data from widely-available preprints that have a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) are acceptable
Wide-open applicant board · 15 Grants.gov doors
NIBIB Trailblazer Award for New and Early Sta… prints 15 distinct Grants.gov eligibility doors (State governments; County governments; City or township governments; Special district governments; +11 more). Filter fit before reading award size as demand — most applicant classes appear on the row. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Health (HL). This eligibility-code string dominates the National Institutes of Health book (9,741 peers, 78% of 12,420).
- Code 00
- State governments
- Code 01
- County governments
- Code 02
- City or township governments
- Code 04
- Special district governments
- Code 05
- Independent school districts
- Code 06
- Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Code 07
- Federally recognized tribal governments
- Code 08
- Public / Indian housing authorities
- Code 11
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Code 12
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs)
- Code 13
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs)
- Code 20
- Private institutions of higher education
- Code 22
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Code 23
- Small businesses
- Code 25
- Others (see official listing text)
Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.
Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Parent Grant Program
Discovery Research for Cancer Diagnostics
National Institutes of Health
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What to do next
NIBIB Trailblazer Award for New and Early Sta… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.
- Parent CFDA 93.286 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
- Discovery Research for Cancer Diagnostics indexes 78 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
- National Institutes of Health lists 12,419 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog
Opportunity deadlines and eligibility change on Grants.gov; PlainGrants mirrors the extract and is not the submission system.
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