NIH Fiscal Policy for Grant Awards – FY 2007
Notice Number:
NOT-OD-07-030
Key Dates
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Issued by
National Institutes of Health (NIH) (http://www.nih.gov
)
This Notice provides guidance to the extramural community about the
NIH’s Fiscal Operations Plan for FY2007.
Faced with a markedly increased number of applications and applicants
for grant support at a time of flat budgets with no inflationary
adjustments, NIH is taking immediate proactive steps in FY2007 to manage
its portfolio of investments in biomedical research. NIH is committed
to buttressing core areas of vulnerability, such as the ability of new
investigators to compete for support in these difficult financial times,
and protecting our investment in well established investigators with
little or no other significant support. In addition, NIH is adjusting
the number of competing Research Project Grants (RPG) that will be
awarded, with the goal of stabilizing to the extent possible the yearly
variation in number of awards that are made.
NIH is instituting the following fiscal policies in FY2007:
Inflationary adjustments for existing non-competing renewal awards will
not be made in FY2007. Non-competing awards that were expected to
include an inflationary increase in FY 2007, including modular grants
will not receive any inflationary increase. Institutes and centers
(ICs) will maintain the flexibility to supplement such non-competing
awards on a case by-case basis according to scientific and programmatic
imperatives. However, such supplements will not be considered as part of
the base for future budgetary adjustments.
Each IC will manage its portfolio by using uncommitted funds and the
savings from not funding inflationary increases for non-competing awards
in FY 2007 to maintain the stability of the NIH investigator pool by
reaching approximately 9600 new and competing RPGs, a number similar to
that of FY 2005. The following guidelines apply in order of priority:
1- maintain a number of new investigators comparable to the average of
the most recent five years. 2- Develop IC specific mechanisms to insure
that first time grantees applying for their first renewal and who
receive review scores near the nominal payline of the relevant IC be
given appropriate consideration with the goal of avoiding serious
attrition or closure of new laboratories to the greatest extent
possible. 3- Develop IC specific mechanisms to insure to the greatest
extent possible that established grantees with insufficient other
support and who receive review scores near the nominal payline of the
relevant IC be given appropriate consideration, with the goal of not
losing outstanding laboratories. 4-Each IC will have flexibility to
adjust its policies for funding other mechanisms according to its
specific scientific and programmatic imperatives.
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