NIH Posts Call for $200M in Stimulus Grants

Colleagues,

As reported in Genome Web News...The National Institutes of Health has put out a call for certain new grants it will fund with money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and it is outlining some areas it will support with the funds.

NIH has kicked off its stimulus package spending with a new Challenge Grants program, fuelled by at least $200 million in fiscal years 2009 and 2010, which is expected to fund 200 or more grants from applicants who get their proposals in before the end of April 2009.

These challenge grants will have special application and review processes aimed at creating a fast track for getting the labs going, outfitted, and staffed. These projects will include a variety of targeted areas, including genomics, biomarker studies, translational science, comparative effectiveness research, and bioethics studies of problems facing contemporary medical research and practices.

Read on at: http://www.genomeweb.com/nih-posts-call-200m-stimulus-grants

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Comment by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 11, 2009 at 6:56pm: Good point Joshua. It has happened in past periods. It is very thoughtful and forward thinking for you to consider this dynamic in this cycle.

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Comment by Joshua Silverstein on March 6, 2009 at 10:27am: Excellent! One possible facet of the stimulus that worries me: What happens when the money dries up and academics have to rely on pre-stimulus funding levels after a few years of succulent funding? I just worry that as a graduate student, some of my peers will find themselves without funding in their 3rd of 4th year of their doctorate. I guess maybe it is the individual responsibility of academics not to hedge on continued high funding levels?