The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
The grant program aims to support mid-career investigators by providing mentored career enhancement awards. Its main objective is to foster cross-disciplinary training to enable these investigators to broaden and strengthen their abilities to lead future comparative studies examining the differences in life spans between human and nonhuman primate species. Specific goals include helping these investigators augment or redirect their research programs by acquiring new expertise in fields related to comparative primate research and aging, and to develop collaborations with research fields they do not typically engage with. The program is focused on supporting experienced investigators with backgrounds in human and/or nonhuman primate studies.