Animal Facilities Improvement Program (AFIP): This program upgrades animal facilities, improves research animal care, and assists institutions in complying with the regulations and policies related to the use of laboratory animals.
Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN): This program uses emerging technology advances to enhance collaboration efforts that integrate data, expertise, and unique technologies from research centers across the country.
Biomedical Technology Research Resources (BTRR): This program creates critical, often unique, technologies and methods for application to a broad range of basic, translational, and clinical research and fosters synergistic interactions of technical and biomedical expertise, both within the resources and through intensive collaborations with other leading laboratories, to provide other biomedical researchers with training and access to new tools and methodologies.
Clinical Research Education and Career Development (CRECD): This program trains clinical investigators at minority institutions to conduct sound clinical research and be competitive in obtaining external research support.
Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA): Through a national consortium, CTSAs are improving how biomedical research is conducted across the nation. The consortium’s goals are to reduce the time it takes for laboratory discoveries to become treatments for patients and to train the next generation of clinical researchers.
Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC): FLC is the nationwide network of federal laboratories that provides the forum to develop strategies and opportunities for linking laboratory mission technologies and expertise with the marketplace.
General Clinical Research Centers (GCRC): This program offers clinical investigators specialized research environments that provide the infrastructure necessary to conduct patient-oriented research.
High-End Instrumentation (HEI): This program provides a mechanism to acquire expensive equipment ($750,000 to $2 million) that is too costly to be purchased through the SIG program.
Institutional Development Award (IDeA): This program fosters health-related research and increases the competitiveness of investigators at institutions in 23 states and Puerto Rico with historically low aggregate success rates for grant awards from NIH. The two major initiatives of the IDeA program are the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) and the IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE).
National Primate Research Center (NPRC): The major goal of the NPRC program is to facilitate the use of nonhuman primates (NHPs) as models of human health and disease for basic, translational, and clinical biomedical research. It provides animals, facilities, and expertise in all aspects of NHP biology and husbandry through funding to eight institutions.
Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI): The goal of the RCMI program is to develop and enhance the research infrastructure of minority institutions to expand their capacity for conducting basic, translational, and clinical research. It provides grants to institutions that award doctoral degrees in health-related fields and have student populations that are 50 percent or greater African American, Hispanic, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander.
RCMI Infrastructure for Clinical and Translational Research (RCTR): This program includes the reorganization of various RCMI clinical and translational research infrastructure-related activities into one integrated program.
RCMI Translational Research Network (RTRN): This program provides opportunities for multisite clinical and translational research among minority and other collaborating institutions throughout the nation.
Research Facilities Improvement Program (RFIP): This program helps to expand, remodel, renovate, or alter existing research facilities or construct new research facilities. These facilities must support basic and/or clinical biomedical and behavioral research, and they may also support research training.
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR): This program supports domestic small business concerns to engage in research or research and development that has the potential for commercialization.
Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA): The two major goals of this program are 1) to increase the pipeline of future scientists and clinicians, especially from minority, underserved, and rural kindergarten to grade 12 students, and 2) to engage and educate the general public on the health-related advances made possible by NIH-funded research.
Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG): This program provides a cost-effective mechanism for groups of NIH-supported investigators to obtain commercially available equipment that costs between $100,000 and $500,000.
Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR): This program supports innovative research in the United States that results in commercial products or services that benefit the public. An STTR grant requires research partners at universities and other nonprofit research institutions to have a formal collaborative relationship with the small business concern.