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FY 2008 Funding Strategy for Research Grants
NINR Funding Guidelines:

Non-Competing Continuation Grants

NIH provides a 1 percent inflation allowance to non-competing research project grant awards. Implementation requires a reduction to previously established commitments based on a 3 percent inflation allowance (please refer to the link below for the NIH Financial Policy for Grant Awards web site).

Future year commitments will be adjusted accordingly, as consistent with FY 2007 policy. Non-competing awards previously issued in FY 2008 at reduced levels will be revised to restore funds to the level indicated above.

New, Competing Renewal, and Competing Supplement Grants
The success rate for NINR is estimated to be approximately 18% in FY 2008. Council and program staff may selectively recommend the payment of grants out of priority score order based on Institute mission and priorities and to maintain a diverse and balanced portfolio. NINR will also place special emphasis on new investigators, first competing renewals of new investigators, and competing renewals of established investigators with insufficient other support.

We realize that the increasingly high overall average cost of NINR grants is largely attributable to the high percentage of clinical studies. NINR may make adjustments to R01 grants to maintain the average cost of competing RPGs at the FY 2007 level, as directed by NIH policy. On average, this may result in a 10% decrease from Initial Review Group (IRG) recommended levels of requested direct costs.

Large Grants
Research applications that exceed $350,000 in direct costs and are scored at the 25th percentile or better will be taken to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research for special consideration of the high budget.

NIH requires pre-approval for applications requesting direct costs of $500,000 or more in any year. The program director whose area of science incorporates the application should receive at least the following as part of the process to evaluate proposed high budget applications:

  • The cover page
  • Abstract of the proposal
  • All of the budget pages and budget justification
  • Specific aims
Additional information on this NIH policy may be found at:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-02-004.html

NIH Financial Policy for Grant Awards - FY 2008 may be found at:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-036.html

NIH Extramural Financial Operations Website may be found at:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/financial/index.htm



 

 

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