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Additional information on budget policy and grants funding policies may be found at NIAMS Grant Funding Decisions

History of Actual Obligations - FY 1987 to present

History of Competing Research Project Grants - FY 1998 to present

Mechanism Table Fiscal Year 2003

February 2004 (historical)

* Mechanism is a term used to report how we distribute money among all the Institute's activities.

Fiscal Year 2003 Actual Obligations
Budget Mechanism* No. of Awards
Amount
Research Grants
Research Project Grants (RPG):
Noncompeting
739
228,178,000
Administrative Supplements
(46)
3,205,000
Competing
242
75,109,000
Subtotal
981
306,492,000
SBIR/STTR
44
10,781,000
Subtotal, RPGs
1,025
317,273,000
Research Centers
37
39,352,000
Other Research:
Career Programs
129
14,625,000
Cooperative Clinical Research
0
0
MBRS
4
1,121,000
Other
28
3,096,000
Subtotal Other Research
161
18,842,000
Total, Research Grants
1,223
375,467,000


Research Training
FTTP
Individual National Research Service Awards
49
2,069,000
Institutional National Research Service Awards
244
11,207,000
Total Training
293
13,276,000
Research & Development Contracts
64
29,196,000
 
Intramural Research
47,706,000
Research Management and Support
20,386,000
Total, NIAMS
486,031,000
Success Rates
20.4%
    (Success Rate = number of competing research project grants paid out of those received)