American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009

Overview of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) was signed into law by President Obama on February 17th, 2009. It is an unprecedented effort to jumpstart our economy, create or save millions of jobs, and put a down payment on addressing long-neglected challenges so our country can thrive in the 21st century. The Act is an extraordinary response to a crisis unlike any since the Great Depression, and includes measures to modernize our nation's infrastructure, enhance energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need.

• Overview of the Recovery Act
  http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/overview/index.html
  
• Implementing the Recovery Act
  http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/programs/index.html
  
• Learn more about programs that issue grants under the Recovery Act
  http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/

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Research Funding Supported Through ARRA:

¹ RFA-OD-09-003
² RFA-OD-09-004
³ RFA-OD-09-005
⁴ Includes 26 competitive revisions to existing grants (Notice OD-09-058), 104 Administrative supplements to Research Project Grants, SBIR grants, Center grants, and Research Career grants (Notice OD-09-056); and 48 Summer Research Experience administrative supplements (Notice OD-09-060).

Featured NIA-Funded ARRA Research Projects:

• Recovery Funds Advance Alzheimer’s Disease Research: November 23, 2009 -- American Recovery and Reinvestment Funds are being used to promote the national research efforts to better understand, diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has targeted promising areas of research in granting the awards, such as new and ongoing studies to identify additional risk factor genes associated with Alzheimer’s, improve diagnostic tools, find biomarkers, develop therapies, conduct clinical trials and explore preventive measures.
  http://www.nia.nih.gov/NewsAndEvents/PressReleases/PR20091123AD-ARRA.htm
  
  
• Recovery Act Funding Seeks to Help Understand Basic Secrets of Aging: November 23, 2009 -- The National Institute on Aging (NIA) today announced two major awards to advance exciting areas of basic research on aging. Grants for studies to determine the potential healthy aging effects of rapamycin, a compound involved in regulating cell growth, and to understand the causes of protein misfolding—when a protein is either not formed correctly or damaged afterwards—that lead to age-related disease are made possible through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding.
  http://www.nia.nih.gov/NewsAndEvents/PressReleases/PR20091123rapamycin-misfolding.htm
  
  
• What Can Prevent Walking Disability in Older People? November 4, 2009 -- The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced the award of $29.5 million in grant support over the next two years to determine whether a specific physical activity program can stave off disability in older people. The funding will begin the Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders—LIFE— trial, the largest ever undertaken to prevent mobility disability among older people who are at risk of losing their ability to walk and to live independently in the community. The grant is being awarded to the University of Florida’s Institute on Aging in Gainesville.
  http://www.nia.nih.gov/NewsAndEvents/PressReleases/PR20091104_ARRA-exercise.htm
  
  
• NIA Extends Research on Health, Economics of Older Americans: October 29, 2009 -- The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced the award of four grants totaling more than $19 million over the next two years to expand the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), the nation’s premier long-term study and data resource on the combined health, economic, and social factors influencing the well-being of Americans over age 50. The awards, made possible through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, are part of the $5 billion that President Obama announced Sept. 30 on the NIH campus. They will supplement the cooperative agreement between the NIA and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, which conducts the study.
  http://www.nia.nih.gov/NewsAndEvents/PressReleases/PR20091029ARRA-HRS.htm

NIA will not be participating in the following NIH ARRA initiatives:

• Administrative Supplements: NIA has canceled the opportunity for ARRA administrative supplements to ongoing awards in FY 2010. See:
  http://www.nia.nih.gov/recovery/administrativesupplements.htm
  
  
• Student and Science Educator Supplements:NIA has canceled the opportunity for ARRA students-educator supplements to ongoing awards in FY 2010 for summer research experiences. See:
  http://www.nia.nih.gov/recovery/studentsupplements.htm