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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 2005

February 2006 (historical)

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

Fiscal Year 2005 Actual Obligations
Budget Mechanism* No. of Awards
Amount
Research Grants
Research Project Grants (RPG):
Noncompeting
741
249,225,000
Administrative Supplements
(28)
1,515,000
Competing
244
74,842,000
Subtotal
985
325,582,000
Small Business Innovation/Technology
55
11,929,000
Subtotal, RPGs
1,040
337,511,000
Research Centers
38
40,638,000
Other Research:
Career Programs
137
15,857,000
Cooperative Clinical Research
0
0
Minority Biomedical Research Support
3
892,000
Other
35
3,125,000
Subtotal
175
19,874,000
Total, Research Grants
1,253
398,023,000


Research Training
FTTP
Individual National Research Service Awards
47
2,131,000
Institutional National Research Service Awards
270
12,028,000
Subtotal
317
14,159,000
Research & Development Contracts
67
23,526,000
 
Intramural Research
50,634,000
Research Management and Support
21,501,000
Total, NIAMS
507,843,000
Success Rates
20.2%
    (Success Rate = number of competing research project grants paid out of those received)