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NIH to distribute $1.3 Billion in facilities construction, renovation and equipment funds (zotmail)

Dear Colleagues,

The National Institutes of Health has received an allocation of $1.3 Billion for major facilities and equipment grants from the Economic Recovery Act, that will be distributed through four separate grant programs described below. The Office of Research encourages all who have equipment needs that satisfy the criteria to consider submitting a proposal to the equipment grant calls. Cost sharing is NOT required for any of these grant mechanisms. An internal campus competition for the limited Facilities grants will be announced shortly.

  1. Extramural Research Facilities Improvement Program (C06)
    DEADLINES:
    • May 6, 2009 (projects between $2M and $5M);
    • June 17, 2009 (projects between $10M and $15M),
    • July 17, 2009 (projects between $5M and $10M)

    This program supports efforts to make major alterations and renovations to existing buildings, add to existing buildings, complete uninhabitable shell space in existing buildings, or construct new facilities including research and animal facilities. The major objective is to facilitate and enhance the conduct of Public Health Service-supported biomedical and behavioral research by supporting the costs of improving basic research, clinical research, and animal facilities to meet the biomedical or behavioral research, research training, or research support needs of an institution. There is a campus limit of three proposals for this announcement.
  2. Core Facility Renovation, Repair, and Improvement (G20)
    DEADLINE:
    • September 17, 2009
    This program supports efforts to renovate or repair core facilities. This program 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. Equipment over $100,000 in cost cannot be requested. There is a campus limit of two proposals for this announcement.
  3. The Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG)
    DEADLINE:
    • March 23rd, 2009
    This grant program supports equipment purchases between $100k and 500k. Stipulations are that 75% of the time on the instrument is dedicated to NIH funded research, and at least 3 NIH-funded researchers benefit from it. Review criteria emphasize the quality of new science enabled by acquisition of the instrument, not necessarily whether the instrument is cutting-edge.
  4. The High-End Instrumentation Grant (HEI)
    Equipment $600k-8M,
    DEADLINE: May 6th, 2009.
    This grant program supports equipment purchases between $600k and $8 million. (Note the greatly increased upper limit.) Stipulations are that 75% of the time on the instrument is dedicated to NIH funded research, and at least 3 NIH-funded researchers benefit from it. Review criteria emaphasize the quality of new science enabled by acquisition of the instrument, not necessarily whether the instrument is cutting-edge.

    5. Susan V. Bryant
    Vice Chancellor for Research