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 goal of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support R01 applications focused on developing novel theories and methods to enhance the understanding of the genetic architecture of complex human traits. The grant encourages interdisciplinary approaches spanning natural and social sciences, emphasizing the need to account for interdependencies across biological, social, and ecological scales. It seeks innovative use of theory, simulations, and validation with large-scale datasets to illuminate how genetic and non-genetic factors contribute to trait variation among individuals, families, and populations.