Maximizing Investigators' Research Award
OpenUpdated: Oct 30, 2025
Summary
The NIGMS Maximizing Investigators' Research Awards (MIRA) program aims to provide funding stability and scientific flexibility to support innovative research aligned with NIGMS's mission. Eligible applicants include NIGMS-funded investigators, NIH-defined New Investigators, and current MIRA grantees, with applications encouraged from various educational, governmental, nonprofit, and business entities. To apply, interested parties should contact NIGMS at NIGMS_EINIMIRA@NIGMS.NIH.GOV for further information.
Full Description
Description
NIGMS intends to continue its flagship Maximizing Investigators' Research Awards (MIRA) program. MIRA provides support for the research in an investigator's laboratory that falls within the mission of NIGMS through a single grant award. The goal of MIRA is to increase the efficiency of NIGMS funding by providing investigators with greater funding stability and scientific flexibility, thereby enabling researchers to take on more ambitious and innovative studies, enhancing scientific productivity and the chances for important breakthroughs. The program will also help distribute funding more widely among the nation's highly talented and promising investigators. Over the past decade, MIRA has become the primary approach through which NIGMS supports fundamental, investigator-initiated research.
...This NOFO encourages applications from eligible NIGMS-funded investigators and from NIH-defined New Investigators proposing research that is aligned with NIGMS's mission. The NOFO will also allow renewal applications from all current MIRA grantees, including those previously funded as Early-Stage Investigators (ESIs). NIGMS intends to reissue a separate NOFO to support ESIs through the MIRA program in the future.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants
Education
- Public and state institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Independent school districts
Government
- Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
- State governments
- Public and Indian housing authorities
- County governments
Nonprofit
- Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)
- Other Native American tribal organizations
Business
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
Additional information
Grantor contact information
Description
NIGMS_EINIMIRA@NIGMS.NIH.GOV
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