The National Institutes of Health announced that it is awarding $143.8 million to support research that “is neither incremental nor conventional,” according to James M. Anderson, director of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, who guides the Common Fund’s High-Risk Research program. In 2011, the NIH awarded 13 Pioneer Awards, 49 New Innovator Awards, and 17 Transformative Research Projects Awards, all supported by the NIH Common Fund. Academy members Thomas Hartung, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health; Thomas S. Kupper, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana Farber Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, and Harvard Medical School; F.