American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)
National Science Foundation
The March 18, 2009 Notice from the National Science Foundation can be found here. This Notice explains that NSF received $3 billion in stimulus funding, and plans to spend $2 billion on many highly rated proposals that it has not been able to fund. In addition, NSF plans to award funds for the Math and Science Partnership program ($25 million); the Robery Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program ($60 million); the Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction Account ($400 million); the Academic Research Infrastructure program ($200 million); the Science Masters program ($15 million); and the Major Research Instrumentation Program ($300 million). Announcements will be linked from this website when they become available.
National Institutes of Health
ALL NIH FUNDING GRANT OPPORTUNITIES: For listing of all the NIH grant funding opportunities supported by the ARRA of 2009 please click here.
NIH FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: For Frequently Asked Questions pertaining to the various NIH grant funding programs (General ARRA FAQs, Challenge Grants, Supplements/Competitive Revisions, etc) , please click here.
NIH "GO"Grant Announcement
Under the Recovery Act, the NIH has established a new program entitled Research and Research Infrastructure “Grand Opportunities” hereafter called the ”GO” grants program.This new program will support projects that address large, specific biomedical and biobehavioral research endeavors that will benefit from significant 2-year funds without the expectation of continued NIH funding beyond two years. The research supported by the ”GO” grants program should have high short-term impact, and a high likelihood of enabling growth and investment in biomedical research and development, public health, and health care delivery. For more information about "GO" grant opportunities, visit here.
Due to the close proximity of th receipt date for proposals to an eRA Commons system upgrade that will take place from May 22-26, the proposal due date for GO grants has been moved from May 27, 2009 to May 29, 2009.
NIH Challenge Grants Announcement
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) RFA will extend the five day error correction window through MAY 8, 2009 for the electronic submission of Challenge Grants with submission deadlines between April 27 and May 1, 2009. Relevant FOAs are listed here. The correction window is being extended for these select FOAs to accommodate longer than expected processing times at Grants.gov. The error correction window will revert back to 2 days on May 11, 2009 for all FOAs.
Challenge Grants are one mechanism by which the NIH plans to award some of the $10.4 billion for the agency included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, often referred to as the stimulus bill). The NIH has designated at least $200 million for Challenge Grants.
For more information on the NIH Challenge Grants, link to the NIH Web site:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/challenge_award/
NIH Challenge Awards in Health and Science Research
NIH Institute & Center (IC) Web Sites
grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/challenge_award/IC_ChallengeWebPage.htm
NIH Challenge Awards omnibus of broad challenge areas and specific topics (PDF)
NIH's "Supporting New Faculty Recruitment to Enhance Research Resources through Biomedical Research Core Centers (P30)" - visit here for full announcement
This P30 program is funded by a number of NIH departments, and each has decided on different limitations for submissions of applications for each submitting institution. For an overview of these, visit here.
Letters of Intent are due to NIH by April 29, 2009. Please inform Sarah James by April 15, 2009 of intentions to submit LOI's. Please provide PI name, email, title of grant, NIH Institute/Center that grant will be submitted to, and a brief description of the proposal. If LOI's exceed the number allowed by the Institute, the OVPR will work with corresponding deans to decide which LOI's should go forward.
NIH's National Institute of Mental Health
Click here for grant opportunities in Heterogeneity in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
NIH's Administrative Supplements/Competitive Revision Notices
Recovery Act Funds for Administrative Supplements: Notice Number: NOT-OD-09-056
Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications: Notice Number: NOT-OD-09-058
Recovery Act Funds for Administrative Supplements Providing Summer Research Experiences for Students and Science Educators: Notice Number: NOT-OD-09-060
NIH Institute & Center (IC) Web Sites for Supplements and Revisions to Active NIH Grants with Recovery Act Funds - For specific areas of interest, eligibility, closing dates, contact information, and budget/funding information by IC or OD Office, please click on the following links: http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/ic_supp.html
To see if your NIH I/C is participating and which of the three types of supplements they are supporting for supplements and revisions to active NIH Grants, click on this website.
NCRR ARRA Funding Announcements
New information has been posted on the NIH National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) website regarding funding opportunities under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. As far as it can be determined, none of these programs require institutional cost sharing. The four programs and their links are as follows:
Internal LOI's CLOSED as of March 19, 2009: Recovery Act Limited Competition: High-End Instrumentation Grant Program (S10)
March 5 • PAR-09-118 Purpose: The NCRR High-End Instrumentation Grant (HEI) program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase a single major item of equipment to be used for biomedical research that costs at least $600,000. The maximum award is $8,000,000. Additionally, it is expected that the funds will be expended expeditiously, within 18-24 months from the date of award. Instruments in this category include, but are not limited to, structural and functional imaging systems, macromolecular NMR spectrometers, high-resolution mass spectrometers, cryoelectron microscopes and supercomputers. THIS PROGRAM REQUIRES INSTITUTIONAL APPROVAL. LOI'S ARE DUE TO OVPR ON MARCH 19, 2009. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
Recovery Act Limited Competition: Extramural Research Facilities Improvement Program (C06) WSU PROJECTS FOR THIS LIMITED SUBMISSION PROGRAM HAVE BEEN SELECTED.
Recovery Act Limited Competition: Core Facility Renovation, Repair, and Improvement (G20) THIS IS A LIMITED SUBMISSION GRANT OPPORTUNITY. WSU LOI'S ARE DUE ON APRIL 20, 2009 TO SARAH JAMES. LOI's should include:
• Descriptive title of proposed research
• Name, address, phone number and email address of the PD/PI
• Current NIH funding
• Names of other key personnel, participating departments; current NIH funding
• Core Enhancement Information: Describe the enhancement requested; brief description of the major users’ NIH projects that will benefit from the instrument
• Explain how the requested enhancement will contribute to the institution’s biomedical research goals.
Additional information about the G20: RFA-RR-09-007 Purpose: This FOA issued by the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, solicits applications from institutions that propose to renovate, repair, or improve core facilities. For the purpose of this FOA, a core facility is defined as a centralized shared resource that provides access to instruments or technologies or services, as well as expert consultation to investigators supported by the core. The major objective of this FOA is to upgrade core facilities to support the conduct of PHS supported biomedical and/or behavioral research. Support can be requested to alter and renovate (A&R) the core facility as well as to improve the general equipment in the core facility or to purchase general equipment for specialized groups of researchers. Specialized equipment over $100,000 in cost cannot be requested as part of this FOA. In situations when similar core facilities exist in different departments at an institution, funding can be requested in support of centralizing these core facilities. This FOA is issued under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), Pub. L. No. 111-5. It is expected that all awards will be expended expeditiously and that applicants will consider the use of “green” technologies and design approaches. Awards are expected to create and/or maintain American jobs.
CLOSED AS OF March 23, 2009: Addition of Recovery Funds to the Shared Instrumentation Grant Program March 5 • NOT-RR-09-008 Purpose: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), Pub. L. No. 111-5, appropriates $300M to NCRR for shared instrumentation and other capital research equipment, as well as $1B for grants or contracts under section 481A of the Public Health Service Act to construct, repair or renovate existing non-Federal research facilities. Four related FOAs have been released in response to the Recovery Act, two for instrumentation and two for construction, renovations and repairs to extramural facilities.