NIH MERIT award

The NIH MERIT award (Method To Extend Research in Time) Award (R37) was created by the National Institutes of Health in 1986. It is a prestigious award designed to provide stable, long-term funding support to outstanding, experienced investigators whose productivity is distinctly superior and who are deemed highly likely to continue to perform their research activities in an outstanding manner. The MERIT award provided funding for 5 years and could be renewed for up to 10 years. Unlike most NIH grant awards, the MERIT award could not be applied for by the investigator. The OIA allows for up to $600,000 in direct costs for 7 years.

In 2014, NIH announced that it would be phasing out the MERIT award and replacing it with a similar Outstanding Investigator Award (R35).[1]

## Notable MERIT award recipients

Name | Institute | Year

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Paul Gruenewald  | NIAAA  | 2005
Susan Amara  | National Institutes of Health | 2004
Arnold Berk  | UCLA  | 2003
Gary Borisy  | Northwestern University |
Joan Brugge  | Harvard Medical School  |
Joseph D. Brain  | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health  | 1987-1995
Donald S. Coffey  | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine  |
Chris Q. Doe  | University of Oregon | 2013
John Engelhardt  | University of Iowa | 2005
David L. Felten  | Oakland University |
Andrew Feinberg  | Johns Hopkins University | 2001
Catherine Clarke Fenselau  | Johns Hopkins University | 1991
Patricia A. Grady  | NIH  |
Shiv I.S. Grewal  | National Cancer Institute |
Alan Grodzinsky  | MIT  | 1994
Curtis C. Harris | National Cancer Institute | 2009
Eric Jacobsen  | Harvard University | 2002
Lily Jan  | UCSF  | 2006
Kenneth W. Kinzler | Johns Hopkins University | 2002
Leonid Kruglyak  | Princeton University | 2002
M. Daniel Lane  | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine  | 1990
Mitchell Lazar  | University of Pennsylvania |
Xihong Lin | Harvard University | 2007
Andrew D. Luster  | Massachusetts General Hospital  |
James L. Manley  | Columbia University |
Sean J. Morrison  | UT Southwestern  | 2009
Eric N. Olson  | UT Southwestern  | 2000
Pier Paolo Pandolfi  | Harvard Medical School  | 2005
Carol Prives  | Columbia University | 1996
Julius Rebek  | Scripps Research Institute | 1996
Clarice Reid | NHLBI  |
Sandra Schmid | UT Southwestern  | 2000
John M. Sedivy | Brown University | 2009
Edward I. Solomon  | Stanford University | 1995, 2002
Suresh Subramani  | UC San Diego  |
Inder Verma | Salk Institute for Biological Studies | 1987
William T. Wickner  | Dartmouth Medical School  |
Charles R. Wira  | Dartmouth College |
George Woude  | Van Andel Research Institute  | 1982
Hao Wu  | Harvard Medical School  |
Nancy Zahniser  | University of Colorado |

## Notable Outstanding Investigator Award recipients

## References

1. ↑ https://www.cancer.gov/research/nci-role/spotlight/merit

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