Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications (NOT-OD-09-058)

National Library of Medicine

Purpose

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) offers an opportunity for competitive revision applications (formerly "competitive supplements") to researchers who have active grants from NLM. This program is closed to applications as of April 21, 2009.

Competitive revision applications will be funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009. The Recovery Act is an unprecedented effort to jumpstart our economy, create or save millions of jobs, and put a down payment on addressing long-neglected challenges so our country can thrive in the 21st century.

Applying for Recovery Act Competitive Revision Applications

This program is closed to applications as of April 21, 2009.

Recovery Act competitive revision applications may be requested by current NLM grantees who wish to expand the scope of their research beyond the current funded aims. These supplements will go through the standard two-level cycle of peer review. The proposed period of the competitive revision application cannot exceed the end date of the parent grant.

Areas of Scientific Priority

While NLM places no restrictions on the research areas of Recovery Act competitive revision applications, applicants are encouraged to look at NLM’s Challenge Grant topics listed at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/challenge.html as possible new directions for their work, along with other informatics-based challenge topics listed in RFA OD-09-003.

Funding Priorities

Overall, NLM expects to devote approximately $7 million to this Recovery Act supplement program into basic and applied research in biomedical informatics.

Grantees may only apply to NLM for one Recovery Act supplement per grant, in each of the three types of Recovery Act supplement programs (if the grant is eligible for those supplement programs). The cost ceiling for Recovery Act competitive revision applications (for the entire supplement, not per year) is $300,000 total costs or 50% of total cost of the most recent grant award, whichever is smaller.

NLM competitive revision applications cannot be used as a bridge award.

For this initiative, NLM will accept requests for competitive revision applications to active NLM grants of the following types (activity codes):

NLM will not accept requests for competitive revision applications to the following types of grants (activity codes):

Application Receipt Date and Timeline for Review

The deadline for receipt of competitive revision applications was April 21, 2009.

Competitive revision applications will be reviewed by end of August with notification of award by September 30, 2009.

Contact Information

Scientific or technical questions should be directed to the NLM Program Officer of the active parent grant.

Administrative questions should be directed to the Grants Management Specialist for the active parent grant.

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