NIDDK Catalyst Award (DP1 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Background
The NIDDK Catalyst Award is designed to complement NIDDK's traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists who propose pioneering and transformational studies in topic areas of interest to NIDDK's Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, and to NIDDK's Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition. The program is intended to support investigators developing bold, innovative, and often risky approaches to address significant and intractable problems in research topics of interest within the two extramural divisions of NIDDK.

Grant Details
The proposed research should reflect new and novel scientific directions that are distinct from concepts and approaches being pursued in the investigator’s research program or elsewhere.
The research should be focused on major scientific challenges with the potential to produce an unusually high impact on diseases and conditions central to the mission of the two divisions within NIDDK.
The award requires a commitment of at least 4 person-months of research effort towards activities supported by the award.
Effort expended toward teaching, administrative, or clinical duties should not be included in this calculation.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include higher education institutions, nonprofits, for-profit organizations, state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized), U.S. Territory or Possession, independent school districts, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), faith-based or community-based organizations, regional organizations. Foreign institutions are not eligible to apply.

Period of Performance
The period of performance for the grant is from September 28, 2023 to July 2024.

Grant Value
NIDDK intends to commit $4,650,000 in FY 2024 to fund up to six awards.
Application budgets are limited to $500,000 direct costs per year with a maximum project period of 5 years.