FEDERAL STIMULUS PACKAGE: NIH Announces Challenge Grant Program
From: Susan V. Bryant, Vice Chancellor for Research
To: UCI Campus Community
Subject: FEDERAL STIMULUS PACKAGE: NIH Announces Challenge Grant Program
The National Institutes of Health has announced the launch of the NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research (RC1) as part of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). As part of the Recovery Act, NIH has designated at least $200 million in FYs 2009 - 2010 for this initiative, to fund 200 or more grants supporting research on topic areas which address specific scientific and health research challenges in biomedical and behavioral research that would benefit from significant 2-year jumpstart funds. The requested budget may not exceed $500,000 total costs per year for a maximum of $1,000,000 total costs over a two-year project period.
This new program will support research on Challenge Topics in specific Broad Challenge Areas. These include high priority topics in broad challenge areas across the NIH, and additional Challenge Areas of interest to the individual Institutes and Centers. Details of these areas are listed in the RFA.
A description of the program is here: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/challenge_award/
The RFA is available at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-003.html
An omnibus listing of Challenge Areas and Specific Topics is available here: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/challenge_award/Omnibus.pdf
All NIH Challenge grants are to be submitted electronically through Grants.gov.
The Earliest date an application may be submitted to is March 27, 2009. The application deadline is April 27, 2009. (Peer Review is expected June/July 2009, with Council Review in August 2009, and earliest anticipated start date of September 30, 2009)
I encourage all with appropriate projects to apply for this exciting new program.
FOR MORE UPDATED NEWS on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, please frequent the Office of Research homepage at: http://www.research.uci.edu/
Susan Bryant
Vice Chancellor for Research
