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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 2002

February 2003 (historical)

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

Fiscal Year 2002 Actual Obligations
(Dollars in thousands)
Budget Mechanism* No. of Awards
Amount
Research Grants
Research Project Grants (RPG):
Noncompeting
705
$205,346
Administrative Supplements
(58)
3,168
Competing
257
74,806
Subtotal
962
283,320
SBIR/STTR
35
9,938
Subtotal, RPGs
997
293,258
Research Centers
36
35,442
Other Research:
Career Programs
119
13,616
Cooperative Clinical Research
0
MBRS
4
1,001
Other
21
4,179
Subtotal Other Research
144
18,796
Total, Research Grants
1,177
347,496


Research Training
FTTP
Individual National Research Service Awards
56
2,460
Institutional National Research Service Awards
233
10,585
Total Training
289
13,045
Research & Development Contracts
56
20,969
(SBIR/STTR)
(0)
(0)
Intramural Research
47,848
Research Management and Support
18,324
Total, NIAMS
447,682
Success Rates
23.2%
    (Success Rate = number of competing research project grants paid out of those received)