Financial Management Plan
Updated July 21, 2009. We update this information as we receive it.
For more information on funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), see NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act.
NIH announced fiscal policy for FY 2009 awards in its March 18, 2009, Guide notice.
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Competing Awards
- NIAID is fully funding competing awards and their future years. You can request up to a 3 percent escalation factor for nonmodular grants.
- NIAID is funding new and early-stage investigators (ESI) for four or five years from our regular appropriation.
- 12 to 16 percentile -- up to five years.
- 16 to 25 percentile -- up to four years.
- Renewal budgets are capped at 20 percent over the last noncompeting award, not including equipment and alterations and renovations costs. See What is the funding cap for renewals?
Noncompeting Awards
- We are fully restoring funds to noncompeting awards, which we initially paid at about 90 percent of the level of the previous grant.
- We will probably be making awards in the summer because of heavy workload caused by the Recovery Act.
- You will not be penalized for the delay.
- Fellowships, training grants, career development awards, conference grants, and small business awards (SBIR and STTR) will be fully funded.
Set-Aside Funds
- Selective pay
- NIAID is setting aside $9 million, $3 million for each extramural program division.
- Note: Investigators cannot apply for selective pay awards. NIAID's main advisory Council ranks applications recommended by Institute program staff. See our Selective Pay SOP.
- R56-Bridge and two-year ARRA R01 applications
(does not apply to new investigators and ESIs)
- Applications that rank between the 12 and 25 percentile and qualify for ARRA support fall into one of the following two categories:
- If you can resubmit by the November 5 (non-AIDS) or January 7 (AIDS applications) receipt date, you will get an R56-Bridge award. In most cases, we will give you a second year of funding if your resubmission does not succeed.
- If you have no resubmissions left or choose not to resubmit, we will offer you a two-year ARRA R01.
- Note: Investigators cannot apply for an R56-Bridge award. Program officers nominate high-priority projects. See our NIAID R56-Bridge Award SOP.
Financial Management Plan Background
This fiscal year, NIAID is using the following NIH and Institute financial management policies and processes.
Since the biggest part of the budget pays for research project grants* (RPGs), we have set policies for RPGs that keep our budget balanced and enable us to maintain our funding commitments. RPGs are approximately 56 percent of NIAID’s research budget; 61 percent of RPGs are R01 grants.
Competing awards. The R01 payline is at the 12.0 percentile except for new investigators, who have a 25.0 percentile payline. Investigators can subscribe to Email Alerts for payline news. To achieve this year’s Paylines, NIAID reduced funding for research initiatives, including contracts and center grants.
Other continuing programs set aside small pots of money for unsolicited R01s, including:
- Selective pay, which funds grants for up to four years.
- R56-Bridge awards, which give investigators one year of funding as a bridge to an R01.
NIAID is fully funding competing awards and their future years. Like the rest of NIH, NIAID also maintains an average grant length of approximately four years, except MERIT awards and program project grants, applications from new investigators, and some other awards defined by Council. Congressionally mandated limits on the length of grants ensure that sufficient funds remain in the budget to pay for new grants.
Noncompeting awards. NIAID is awarding all noncompeting RPGs at previously committed levels, which includes an average 3 percent increase for inflation for nonmodular grants.
By following this strategy, NIAID plans to make approximately 1,250 competing RPG awards in FY 2009, giving us an estimated success rate of 24 percent.
Read more about funding decisions in the NIAID Funding Policy and Process SOP.
See our table showing the paylines, grants awarded, and success rates of NIAID-funded R01s from fiscal years 1999 to 2008 at NIAID Final Paylines by Fiscal Year.
*Research project grants include R01, R37 (MERIT award), R15 (AREA), R21 (exploratory/developmental research grant), P01 (program project), and U01 (cooperative agreement).
More Information
Learn what information to expect and when at Paylines and Budget Pages Change Throughout the Year.
NIH posts financial plan information at NIH Extramural Financial Operations.
The main page, Paylines and Funding, has more financial information for this year such as the NIAID Paylines and Salary Cap and Stipends. |
