Taking Advantage of Opportunities for Science and Research Under the Economic Stimulus Act

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Taking Advantage of Opportunities for Science and
Research Under the Economic Stimulus Act
Office of Science and Research March 9, 2009
Disclaimer Information on the ARRA funding is
changing constantly. We have tried to include the
most current information possible. Please see
Recovery.gov for the most up-to-date information.
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Town Hall

• Update on what we know
• Review of our website
• How we need to coordinate and collaborate to make
  submissions successful
• QA

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Applying for Funding eRA Commons

• To apply for NIH funding, you must have an
  Electronic Research Administration (ERA) Commons
  Identification Number.
• If you do not have an eRA Commons ID, please
  contact the Sponsored Programs Administration
  Office ASAP at 212-263-8822 and they will create
  one for you.

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The Purpose of ARRA Funding

• Preserve and create jobs and promote economic
  recovery
• Assist those most impacted by the recession
• Provide investments to increase economic
  efficiency by spurring technological advances in
  science and health
• Invest in transportation, environmental
  protection, and other infrastructure that will
  provide long-term economic benefits
• Stabilize state and local government budgets

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8.2 billion of investment in NIH

• GENERAL GUIDANCE
• Projects must spend funding by Sept 2011
• Extensive reporting requirements, including
  quarterly reports on the number of jobs created
  and preserved
• Will favor projects that have broad impact on
  public, including specifically creating JOBS,
  having an environmental impact and on supporting
  other NIH-funded research
• NIH will rely on peer-review to determine
  scientific merit

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Initial Funding Allocations

• 8.2 billion in support of scientific research
  priorities, including
• 7.4 billion is transferred to the NIH
  institutes, centers and common fund, on a -based
  formula
• 800 million to the Office of the Director (not
  including Common Fund). For example, support for
  Challenge Grants
• 1 billion to the National Center for Research
  Resources (NCRR) for renovation, improvement and
  new construction of extramural research
  facilities
• 300 million for NCRR Shared Instrumentation and
  other capital equipment
• 500 million for NIH buildings and facilities, to
  fund high priority repair, construction and
  improvement projects on NIH campuses that also
  align with the overall purpose of the Act
• 400 million for Comparative Effectiveness
  Research

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7.4 Billion in NIH Institute Allocations,
assuming ARRA funds are proportional to
institutes share of NIH budget
FY09 Budget of FY09 Budget of 7.4B
NCI 4,809,819,000 16.324 1,207,952,977
NIAID 4,568,778,000 15.506 1,147,417,186
NHLBI 2,924,942,000 9.927 734,579,076
NIGMS 1,937,690,000 6.576 486,637,523
NIDDK 1,858,487,000 6.307 466,746,234
NINDS 1,545,397,000 5.245 388,115,833
NIMH 1,406,841,000 4.775 353,318,446
NICHD 1,255,920,000 4.262 315,415,674
NCRR 1,160,473,000 3.938 291,444,816
OD 1,056,797,000 3.587 265,407,302
NIA 1,048,278,000 3.558 263,267,813
NIDA 1,001,672,000 3.400 251,563,037
NEI 667,764,000 2.266 167,704,338
NIEHS 642,875,000 2.182 161,453,637
FY09 Budget of FY09 Budget of 7.4B
NIAMS 509,080,000 1.728 127,851,942
NHGRI 487,878,000 1.656 122,527,206
NIAAA 436,681,000 1.482 109,669,431
NIDCD 395,047,000 1.341 99,213,338
NIDCR 390,535,000 1.325 98,080,180
NLM 323,046,000 1.096 81,130,782
NIBIB 300,254,000 1.019 75,406,728
NCMHD 199,762,000 0.678 50,168,853
NINR 137,609,000 0.467 34,559,554
NCCAM 121,695,000 0.413 30,562,863
FIC 66,623,000 0.226 16,731,908
29,229,524,000 99.709 29,229,524,000 99.709
29,465,270,000 Total, Program Level 29,465,270,000 Total, Program Level 29,465,270,000 Total, Program Level
800M will be directed to OD to support Challenge Grants 800M will be directed to OD to support Challenge Grants 800M will be directed to OD to support Challenge Grants 800M will be directed to OD to support Challenge Grants
Source UPenn, Breakdown of ARRA funds to NIH.
Available online at http//www.med.upenn.edu/stimu
lus/other_information.html
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Funding Will Go To

• Will choose among recently peer reviewed R01s and
  similar mechanisms capable of making significant
  advances in two years
• New R01s
• Targeted supplements to current grants. For
  example, by competitively expanding the scope of
  current research awards or supplementing an
  existing award with additional support for
  infrastructure (e.g., equipment) that will be
  used in the two-year availability of these funds
• New activities that fit into the structure of the
  ARRA. For example, supporting a reasonable number
  of awards to jump start the new NIH Challenge
  Grant program.

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What the NIAID Says Theyll Do

• 75 unsolicited research project grants
• Award two-year R01s (12.1-25 percentile),
  submitted but not funded FY 2008 or FY 2009
• Award others (R21, R03) at comparable level
• Extend some R56 bridge awards for FY 2008 one
  more year
• Also,
• Award new and early-stage PIs 4 5 yrs
• Award some 2 year stimulus grants
• Small number of administrative supplements

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Challenge Grants

• 15 Challenge areas with Challenge topics
• Due 4/27/09
• At least 200M allocated
• 500k per year total costs (300k direct)
• 2 year maximum (1M maximum requested)
• 12 page proposals
• Review
• Editorial board format
• Criteria Impact and 5 standard criteria
  Significance, Innovation, Approach,
  Investigators, Environment
• Start date 9/30/09

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Challenge Grants

• Read instructions carefully
• Project Summary Start with Challenge area/topic
• Biosketches 2 pages only, ? 10 publications cited
• 1 page Specific Aims
• 12 page Research Plan
• Research Area (Challenge area/Challenge topic)
• The Challenge and Potential Impact
• The Approach
• Timeline and Milestones
• (Prelim data not required, but may be included to
  demonstrate feasibility of proposed study)
• Inclusion of Women, Minorities, Children Human
  Subjects, Vertebrate Animals, Biohazards, etc
• No revisions, no renewals, no supplemental info

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Instrumentation (NCRR)

• 2009 and 2010 60M program funding
• ARRA Additional 300M
• SIG S10 PAR-09-028 100k 500k
• HEI S10 PAR-09-118 600k 8M

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SIG S10 (PAR-09-028) 100k - 500k

• Due 3/23/09
• 43M in FY 2010 for 125 awards PLUS some of the
  300M ARRA
• Start date April 1, 2010
• 100,000 - 500,000, no FA or construction
• Institutional support infrastructure, service
  contracts, technical personnel
• NMR, EM/confocal, mass spec, prot/DNA sequences,
  biosensors, x-ray diffractometers, cell sorters
  (Only one instrument per app)
• If 2 or more apps for similar equipment from same
  institution, need institutional official to state
  it is part of the plan
• Major users 3 or more (PIs on NIH grantsP01,
  R01, U01, R35, R37, DP1, DP2). Users can be PIs
  or groups or outside PIs
• Existing grants will require at least 75 of
  total usage
• PI and an Internal advisory committee
• Following instructions in PAR-09-028

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HEI S10 (PAR-09-118) 600k - 8M

• Letter of Intent (not required, but preferred)
  due 4/6/09
• Due 5/6/09
• 160M in FY 2010 for 40 awards start date Dec
  2009 and Jan 2010
• 600,000 (1M) - 8M, no FA or construction
  (spend within 18-24 mo of award) Do not propose
  overaccessorizing midlevel routine instruments
• Institutional support infrastructure, service
  contracts, technical personnel
• Biomedical imagers, NMR spec, FTICR mass spec,
  EM, supercomputers (not synchrotron) (Only one
  instrument per app)
• If 2 or more apps for similar equipment from same
  institution, need institutional official to state
  it is part of the plan
• Major users 3 or more (PIs on NIH grantsP01,
  R01, U01, R35, R37, DP1, DP2). Users can be PIs
  or groups or outside PIs
• Existing grants will require at least 75 of
  total usage
• PI and an Internal advisory committee
• Following instructions in PAR-09-028

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Construction, Repair, Renovation

• ARRA 1B
• Core facilities (C06) RFA-RR-09-007 1M-10M
• Due 9/17/09
• Renovations or new research/animal facilities
  (G20) RFA-RR-09-008 2M - 15M
• Due 5/6/09 2M - 5M
• Due 6/17/09 10M - 15M
• Due 7/17/09 5M - 10M

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Research Facilities (C06) RFA-RR-09-008 2M -
15M

• 2M - 5M due 5/6/09
• 10M 15M due 6/17/09
• 5M - 10M due 7/17/09
• Start Dec 2009, April 2010, project period ? 5
  yrs schematic designs within 4 mos of Notice of
  Award
• Altering or new BSL-2, BSL-3, GMP/GLP facilities,
  construction for simulation facilities for
  training health care providers and researchers
  animal facilities, metabolic chambers,
  biorepositories, pollutant exposure chambers,
  animal imaging, cyberinfrastructure (not
  servers), HVAC etc (can include high end tech and
  MRI)
• 2M - 15M, no FA
• Create/maintain American Jobs Sustainable design
• PI institutional person with admin oversight
• No more than 3 proposals/institution overall, can
  be more than 1 per app date
• No resubmission or renewals

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Core Facilities (G20) RFA-RR-09-007 1M - 10M

• Due 9/17/09
• Start July 2010, project period ? 5 yrs
  schematic designs within 4 mos of Notice of Award
• Upgrade core facilities or purchase general
  equipment (lt 100k autoclave, dishwashers,
  upgrading HVAC, cage washers, animal ventilated
  racks) (not changing footprint of existing
  facility)
• 1M - 10M, no FA
• Create/maintain American Jobs
• Sustainable design
• PI institutional person with admin oversight
• No more than 2 proposals/institution
• No resubmission or renewals

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Extensive Reporting Requirements

• As required by Section 1512 of the Recovery Act
  and this guidance, each recipient, as described
  above, is required to report the following
  information to the Federal agency providing the
  award 10 days after the end of each calendar
  quarter, starting on 7/10
• The total amount of recovery funds received from
  that agency
• Detailed list of all projects or activities for
  which recovery funds were obligated and expended
  
• The name of the project or activity
• A description of the project or activity
• An evaluation of the completion status of the
  project or activity
• An estimate of the number of jobs created and the
  number of jobs retained by the project or
  activity and
• For infrastructure investments made by State and
  local governments, the purpose, total cost, and
  rationale of the agency for funding the
  infrastructure investment with funds made
  available under this Act, and name of the person
  to contact at the agency if there are concerns
  with the infrastructure investment.
• Detailed information on any subcontracts or
  subgrants awarded by the recipient to include the
  data elements required to comply with the Federal
  Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of
  2006 (P.L. 109-282), allowing aggregate reporting
  on awards below 25,000 or to individuals.

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New Stimulus Website Contains

• Funding/Grants by Type
• Challenge Grants
• Instrumentation Grants
• Construction/Renovation Funding
• Supplements
• Evaluation/Review of Proposals
• 5 Key Review Criteria
• Reporting Requirements IMPACT
• Dr. Cheryl Kitts powerpoint
• NIH Review Criteria Notice
• Grant Deadline Policy
• Background/Supporting Information
• For Help Applying
• Related Links
• Login to new Funding Proposals site

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New NYU Stimulus Website http//osr.med.nyu.edu/s
timulus-arra
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New Website for Funding Proposal Ideas
http//fundingproposals.med.nyu.edu/
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After you login
Create a New Proposal
See Summary of Ideas
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If you are not the PI, but are a potential user
of the equipment
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Format Each Funding Idea has Potential Users
listed below
Subject line
Funding Idea
Potential User
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Submissions

• Shared instrumentation http//fundingproposals.me
  d.nyu.edu/
• Coordinate requests
• Real Estate Facilities can comment
• Support letters
• Renovation/Construction must be coordinated
  through Vice-Dean and Real Estate/Facilities
• Challenge grant submissions
• Departmental administrators will be surveyed to
  anticipate volumes
• Additional grants specialists available to help
  with submissions
• Need compliance with NYU policies
• Submit everything but the Science at least 7 days
  in advance
• Submit the Science 3 days in advance
• Exceptions need to be requested and granted by
  kenneth.devaney_at_nyumc.org

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Questions?
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Websites for Up-to-date Information

• Office of Science and Research has compiled
  up-to-date information on opportunities related
  to the stimulus funding, at
• http//osr.med.nyu.edu/stimulus-arra
• Funding Proposals Site http//fundingproposals.med
  .nyu.edu/
• Sponsored Programs Administration can help, find
  them at http//www.med.nyu.edu/spa/
• Contact SPA at 212-263-8822 or e-mail
  grants.office_at_med.nyu.edu

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2010 Budget

• 6 billion for cancer research as part of
  multi-year commitment to double cancer research
  funding
• Comparative effectiveness (1.1B in Recovery)
• Health IT and use of electronic medical records
• Medicare and Medicaid research expansion payment
  reforms, higher quality at lower costs,
  beneficiary education
• Autism 211m for research, screening, support
• Indian health services
• Other initiatives
• Domestic violence
• Enhance emergency care
• Addiction treatment
• Reduce health disparities