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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 1998

February 1999 (historical)

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

Fiscal Year 1998 Actual Obligations

(Dollars in thousands)
Budget Mechanisms*

No. of Awards

Amount

Research Grants


Research Project Grants:


Noncompeting 570 $135,470

Admin Supplements (32) $1,373

Competing 225 $46,971


Subtotal, RPGs 795 $183,814

Small Business Innovation/Technology Research 36 $6,253

Subtotal, RPGs 831 $190,067




Research Centers 27 $29,240




Other Research:


Career Programs 63 $5,354

Cooperative Clinical Research
$0

Minority Biomedical Research Support $509

Other
21 $1,013

Subtotal 84 $6,876



Total, Research Grants 942 $226,183




Research Training FTTP


Individual National Research Service Awards 50 $1,431

Institutional National Research Service Awards 197 $5,872

Subtotal 247 $7,303



Research & Development Contracts 26 $6,803



Intramural Research $23,843



Research Management and Support $9,747




Total

$273,879



Success Rate

28.1%
Success Rate = number of competing research project grants paid out of the total number reviewed