New investigator

First major independent research support from NIH occurs at an ever-later age

Certain scholarly funding agencies make a distinction between investigators and new investigators. New investigators would be evaluated in a different way when competing for funding with more seasoned researchers, or they would be able to access funding resources specific to them. The rationale behind is to avoid the current trend that for certain grants the average age of the researchers receiving it for the first time keeps increasing over the years (See graph).[1]

  1. ^ "Early Stage Investigator Policies". grants.nih.gov. Retrieved 6 March 2020.