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Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) is sponsored by National Institutes of Health. Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) is a forecasted funding opportunity on Grants. gov from National Institutes of Health.
Fiscal Year: 2027. Assistance Listing Number(s): 93. 859.
<p>NIGMS intends to continue its flagship Maximizing Investigators' Research Awards (MIRA) program for Early Stage Investigators (ESIs). Over the past decade, MIRA has become the primary approach through which NIGMS supports fundamental, investigator-initiated research. MIRA provides support for research in an investigator's laboratory that falls within the mission of NIGMS through a single grant award.
It provides investigators with greater funding stability and scientific flexi...
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