NACA meeting: September 21–22, 2010

Note – Each year at the January Council meeting a report (NIA’s Annual Statistical Package) with data from the previous fiscal year is presented. The January 2011 report will incorporate data from each Council Round for applications considered for funding in FY 2010.

Contents:

• Statistical Package in PDF, 39K
• Definitions of the Various Mechanisms

ARRA Applications (ARRA is an abbreviation for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Pub. L. 111-5), an economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th United States Congress in February 2009)

• Table I: ARRA applications assigned to the August 2010 Council Round (by Mechanism and Division)
  • Note: There were no ARRA applications assigned to the October 2010 Council Round
• Appendix: Notes regarding Table I

Normal Applications

• Table IA: Applications assigned to the August 2010 Council Round (by Mechanism and Division)
• Table IB : Applications assigned to the October 2010 Council Round (by Mechanism and Division)
• Table II: Research Project grant applications assigned to the three most recent Council Rounds (by Division and Percentile rank)
• Appendix: Notes regarding Tables IA, 1B, and Table II

NIA AWARD MECHANISMS

Note: Research Career Awards (K series), though a component of the Other Research Projects budget category, are shown separately in these tables to provide additional information.

RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS

P01 - Research Program Project
R01 - Research Project (Traditional)
R03 - Small Research Grant
R15 - Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA)
R21 - Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant
R33 - Exploratory/Developmental Grants Phase II
R34 - Clinical Trial Planning Grant
R36 - Aging Research Dissertation Awards to Increase Diversity
R37 - Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award
R56 - High Priority Short Term Project Award
U01 - Cooperative Agreement Research Project Award

SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH GRANTS

R43 - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant - Phase I
R44 - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant - Phase II

SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER GRANTS

R41 - Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Grant - Phase I
R42 - Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Grant - Phase II

CENTER MECHANISMS

P30 - Center Core Grant
P50 - Specialized Center Grant

OTHER RESEARCH PROJECTS

R13 - Scientific Meeting Grant
U13 - Cooperative Agreement Scientific Meeting Award
U24 - Cooperative Agreement – Resource-related Research Award
R24 - Research Resource Grant
R25 - Education Project Grant

RESEARCH CAREER AWARDS

K01 - Mentored Research Scientist Development Award
K02 - Independent Scientist Award
K07 - Academic Career Award
K08 - Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award
K12 - Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program Award
K23 - Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award
K24 - Mid-career Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research
K25 - Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award
K26 - Mid-career Investigator Award in Mouse Pathobiology Research
K99/R00 - NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Award

TRAINING GRANTS

T32 - Institutional Research Training National Research Service Award
T35 - Short-Term Institutional Research Training National Research Service Award

FELLOWSHIPS

F30 - Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows (F30)
F31 - Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31)
F32 - Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows (F32)
F33 - Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Individual Senior Fellows (F33)

LOAN REPAYMENT MECHANISMS

L30 - Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program
L40 - Pediatric Research Loan Repayment Program

TABLE I

ARRA APPLICATIONS ASSIGNED TO AUGUST 2010 COUNCIL ROUND* (By Division and Mechanism)

* - See notes 6, 7 and 8 in the Appendix.
1 - NOTICE OD-10-032- NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications (R01, R03, R15, R21, R21/R33, and R37) through the NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet)
2 - RFA OD-10-001-ARRAOS: Recovery Act Limited Competition: Behavioral Economics for Nudging the Implementation of Comparative Effectiveness Research: Clinical Trials (RC4)
RFA OD-10-002-ARRAOS: Recovery Act Limited Competition: Behavioral Economics for Nudging the Implementation of Comparative Effectiveness Research (RC4)
RFA OD-10-005-Recovery Act Limited Competition: NIH Director’s Opportunity for Research in Five Thematic Areas (RC4)
RFA OD-10-008-Recovery Act Limited Competition: Comparative Effectiveness Research on Upper Endoscopy in Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (RC4)
RFA OD-10-009-Recovery Act Limited Competition: Methodology Development in Comparative Effectiveness Research (RC4)
3 - NOTICE-OD-10-034- NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications for Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Transfer Technology Research Grants (R43/R44 and R41/R42) through the NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet)
4 - RFA OD-10-011-Recovery Act Limited Competition: Institutional Comparative Effectiveness Research Mentored Career Development Award (KM1)

Data sampled on 8/2/10

Table IA

APPLICATIONS ASSIGNED TO AUGUST 2010 COUNCIL ROUND* (By Division and Mechanism)

* - See notes 1 and 3 in the Appendix.
**- R01 applications received pertain to two Roadmap RFAs: RFA-RM-09-022-Roadmap Transformative Research Projects Program (R01) and RFA-RM-10-002-Science of Behavior Change: Finding Mechanisms of Change in the Laboratory and the Field (R01)
***- K applications received pertain to two NIA RFAs: RFA-AG-10-010-Paul B. Beeson Clinical Scientist Development Award in Aging (K08) and the RFA AG-10-011-Paul B. Beeson Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award in Aging (K23)
Data sampled on 7/27/10

Table IB

APPLICATIONS ASSIGNED TO OCTOBER 2010 COUNCIL ROUND (By Division and Mechanism)

*See Notes 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the Appendix.
Data sampled on 7/27/10

Table 2

RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS ASSIGNED TO THREE MOST RECENT COUNCIL ROUNDS*
October 2010, May 2010 and January 2010 (By Division and Percentile Rank)

* See notes 1, 3, and 5 on the Appendix.
Data sampled on 8/2/2010

Appendix

Notes Regarding Tables

Note 1: (Re: Tables Ia & Ib) Data for Table Ia (for the August 2010 Council Round) and Table Ib (for the October 2010 Council Round) were run on 7/27/09. Only applications assigned to a division by that date were included in these tables. For August 2010 (page 4) ten applications had not been assigned and for October 2010 (page 5) six applications had not been assigned as of 7/27/09. Applications that had been withdrawn by that date have been excluded. Dollar amounts shown in these tables are direct costs only (dollars requested for only the first year).

Applications to the Loan Repayment Program were also received and considered for the August 2010 Council Round. These applications (approximately 100 applications) are excluded from Table Ia.

(Re: Table II) For Table II, run on 8/2/10, applications that had been assigned to a division, reviewed, and percentiled by that date were included. Five grant applications in the RPG line had not been assigned to a division at the time Table II was prepared and three had not been reviewed.

Note 2: (Re: Table Ib) Research Program Grant applications shown in the first line include P01 (Program Projects), R01 (Research Projects), R03 (Small Research Grants), R15 (Academic Research Enhancement Awards), R21 (Exploratory/Developmental Awards), R33 ( Exploratory/Developmental Grants Phase II), R34 (Clinical Trial Planning Grant Awards), R36 (Aging Research Dissertation Awards to Increase Diversity), R37 (Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award and U01 (Cooperative Agreements). Contracts are not included. Costs shown are the first year total direct costs requested. Facilities and Administrative costs are not included.

Note 3: (Re: Tables Ia & Ib) Data include applications “to be reviewed by Council”, applications considered not competitive and applications requesting $50,000 or less.

Note 4: (Re: Table Ib) The data may include competing supplements to existing grants.

Note 5: (Re: Table II) The data include Research Project Grant applications where percentiling was used to rank the applications. As applications responding to RFAs, and a few other applications, are not normally percentiled, the number of applications in Table II is usually less than the corresponding number in line 1 of Table I.

Note 6: Data for Table I was run on 8/2/10. Applications that had been withdrawn by that date were excluded. One ARRA application for the August 2010 Council Round had not been assigned as of 8/2/10. Dollar amounts shown in Table 1 are direct costs only (dollars requested for only the first year).

Note 7: Data shown in Rows 1 and 2 pertain to RPG applications. Row 1 shows applications for the R01 mechanism. Row 2 shows applications for the RC4 mechanism. Only R01 and RC4 mechanisms were considered for ARRA funding in the August 2010 Council Round.

Data shown in Row 2 pertains to applications in response to RFAs OD-10-002, 005, 008 and 09. (See the footnote on page 9 for the title of these RFAs). Row 3 shows data pertaining to R43, R44 applications in response to PA-10-050. Row 4 pertains to data for KM1 awards in response to OD-10-011.

Note 8: Data include applications to be reviewed by Council, applications considered not competitive and applications requesting $50,000 or less.