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PAR-25-442National Institutes of HealthR21

Expanding the Target Landscape by Drugging the Undruggable (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

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Jun 17, 2025

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Summary

The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to solicit applications for exploratory and early-stage projects that focus on undruggable target classes (targets that cannot be engaged with high affinity through conventional means) within intractable human disease…

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