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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 1999

February 2000 (historical)

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

Fiscal Year 1999 Actual Obligations

(Dollars in thousands)
Budget Mechanisms*

No. of Awards

Amount

Research Grants

Research Project Grants:

Noncompeting 602 $145,652
Admin Supplements (32) $1,169
Competing 195 $51,931

Subtotal, RPGs 797 $198,752
Small Business Innovation/Technology Research 40 $6,983

Subtotal, RPGs 837 $205,735



Research Centers 36 $32,243



Other Research:

Career Programs 73 $7,634
Cooperative Clinical Research $0
Minority Biomedical Research Support $572
Other
19 $1,216

Subtotal 92 $9,422



Total, Research Grants 965 $247,400



Research Training FTTP  
Individual National Research Service Awards 48 $1,670
Institutional National Research Service Awards 204 $7,562

Subtotal 252 $9,232



Research & Development Contracts 27 $10,519



Intramural Research $29,288



Research Management and Support $10,721




Total

$307,160



Success Rate
24.4%
Success Rate = number of competing research project grants paid out of the total number reviewed