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Exploratory/Developmental Grant
The objective of this Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) mechanism is to encourage applications for one-time grants to support: 1) innovative research directions requiring preliminary testing or development; 2) exploration of the use of approaches and concepts new to a particular substantive area; 3) research and development of new technologies, techniques or methods; or 4) initial research and development of a body of data upon which significant future research may be built, i.e., the data should have a high level of impact on the field. (NCI Thesaurus)
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