2010-01-21
In response to the final FY 2010 funding levels enacted in December
2009, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a notice concerning its Fiscal Operations Plan for FY 2010.
As detailed in the NIH notice, the following specific NIH fiscal policies are instituted in FY 2010:
- NIH will support a 1 percent increase at all
stipend levels for Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards
(NRSA).
- Non-Competing Research Awards: NIH will allow a 2
percent inflation allowance on non-competing research grants. Each
Institute and Center (IC) will use its own discretion to allocate the
adjustment among its non-competing research grants (modular and
non-modular) to ensure compliance with the 2 percent inflation
allowance. Future year commitments will be adjusted accordingly. The
policy does not apply to projects supported by the Recovery Act, Career
Awards, SBIR/STTRs, and NRSA Individual Fellowships & Institutional
Training Grants.
- Competing Research Awards: For FY 2010,
the average cost of competing grants will be allowed to increase by 2
percent over FY 2009. It is estimated this will allow ICs to support
the NIH investigator pool with approximately 9,200 new and competing
Research Project Grants.
- NIH will support new investigators
on R01 equivalent awards at success rates equivalent to that of
established investigators submitting new R01 equivalent applications.
NIH hopes that will permit the support of 1,650 or more new
investigators.
- The NIH Directors Bridge Award Program will be suspended in FY 2010.
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