NIH to provide longer term grants for investigators

NIH is introducing longer-term grants to provide "more sustained support" to investigators than the agency's historical, project-based grants. In a blog National Cancer Institute's Outstanding Investigator Award, which will provide up to $600,000 annually for up to seven years to investigators with "extraordinary records of cancer research productivity and who propose to conduct exceptional research." Applications are due Oct. 20. Each NIH institute and center will decide on the appropriate size and duration of an award. ...