美国国立卫生研究院2026财年资助1,648名早期研究者创纪录：新计划三年招募100名青年首席研究员
美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）10月8日宣布，该院在2026财年向1,648名处于职业生涯早期的研究者授予R01等效科研资助，为有记录以来最多，并同步启动「发现一代」（Generation Discovery）计划，未来三年为院内研究项目新招募100名青年首席研究员。
NIH表示，1,648人这一数字比过去十年的年均水平1,331人高出24%。该消息在白宫科技政策办公室主办的「科学：新的黄金时代」峰会上公布。NIH院长杰伊·巴塔查里亚（Jay Bhattacharya）说：「NIH正在建设美国生物医学科学的未来。」院方同时指出，首次获得R01等效资助的首席研究员年龄中位数，已从1995财年的38至39岁升至2025财年的42岁，扶持起步期研究者成为此次布局的重点。
除资助与招募外，NIH还公布多项新举措：设立首个元科学（metascience）办公室，研究科研资助体系本身的运行方式；推出强调研究严谨性与可重复性的R3PEATS计划；与国家科学基金会合作建设X-Labs实验平台；推进运用超级智能（SI）等新工具的「生物起源使命」（Bio-Genesis Mission）；并扩大使用为期更长、灵活性更高的R35资助机制。
NIH Awards Record 1,648 Early-Career Investigators in Fiscal 2026 and Launches Drive to Recruit 100 Young Principal Investigators
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on October 8 that it awarded R01-equivalent research grants to 1,648 early-stage investigators in fiscal year 2026, the most ever recorded, and launched the Generation Discovery initiative to recruit 100 early-career principal investigators into its Intramural Research Program over the next three years.
NIH said the 1,648 figure is 24 percent above the ten-year average of 1,331. The announcement was made at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's 'Science: A New Golden Age Summit.' 'NIH is building the future of American biomedical science,' said NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. The agency also noted that the median age of first-time R01-equivalent principal investigators has risen from 38 to 39 in fiscal 1995 to 42 in fiscal 2025, making support for researchers at the start of their careers a focus of the effort.
Alongside the funding and recruitment moves, NIH announced several new initiatives: its first metascience office to study how the research funding system itself works; the R3PEATS program emphasizing rigor and reproducibility; X-Labs built with the National Science Foundation; the Bio-Genesis Mission applying new tools including super intelligence (SI); and broader use of the longer, more flexible R35 grant mechanism.
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