NCRR Recovery Act Information
Last updated October 31, 2011.
Jay Tischfield, chair of the genetics department, oversees the Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository, where thousands of DNA samples are analyzed. In March 2010, he received nearly $9.5 million in Recovery Act construction funds from NCRR to renovate this facility. The new facility will enable scientists to further research into the genetic causes of disorders such as autism, schizophrenia, alcoholism, drug addiction and diabetes. (Photo courtesy of Rutgers University) VIEW THE VIDEO
Overview
On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(1MB PDF, requires free Acrobat Reader). Among the Act's goals are to preserve and create jobs, promote economic recovery and provide investments to increase economic efficiency by propelling technological advances in science and health.
The National Institutes of Health will receive $10.4 billion under the Recovery Act for use through September 2010. NIH is well-positioned to fund the best science in pursuit of improving the length and the quality of the lives of our citizens, while at the same time stimulating the economy. NIH conducts and supports outstanding biomedical and behavioral research through more than 3,000 institutions across the country — institutions that have a direct impact upon the local economies in their towns, cities and states.
To accomplish the goals of the Recovery Act, it will take the help of the entire scientific community. Beyond the immediate economic stimulus, the long-term impact from the science funded by the Recovery Act will have a positive impact upon the health of the nation for years to come. LEARN MORE AT HHS.GOV
NCRR Recovery Act Funding
NCRR is administering more than $1.6 billion in federal grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, commonly known as the Recovery Act or ARRA.
Through the Recovery Act, NCRR has issued funding in several research areas, including construction, high-end instrumentation, technology and innovation and workforce development. Below are the NCRR-supported as well as the NIH-wide Recovery Act grants in which NCRR is participating.
NCRR-supported Grants
Construction
Instrumentation
Infrastructure
- National Networking and Resource Discovery (U24) to develop, enhance or extend infrastructure for connecting people and resources to facilitate discovery of individuals and resources by scientists and students and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and scientific exchange. VIEW NEWS RELEASE • VIEW ORIGINAL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT >>
Support for Existing Programs
- Administrative Supplements for NCRR Awards to accelerate the tempo of scientific research on active grants. VIEW ORIGINAL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT >>
- Competitive Revision Applications to leverage the resources, expertise and infrastructure of the NCRR centers and center-like programs through significant expansion of the scope or research protocol of approved and funded projects. VIEW ORIGINAL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT >>
NIH-wide Grants
- Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15) to stimulate research in educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the nation's research scientists but have not been major recipients of NIH support. VIEW ORIGINAL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT >>
- Administrative Supplements Providing Summer Research Experiences for Students and Science Educators to encourage students to pursue research careers in the health-related sciences and to provide elementary, middle and high school teachers; community college faculty; and faculty from non–research-intensive institutions with short-term research experiences in NIH-funded laboratories. VIEW ORIGINAL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT >>
- Administrative Supplements to Support Core Consolidation to provide investigators and U.S. institutions/organizations with certain active NIH research grants that support core facilities to consolidate multiple cores into a single, more efficient core. VIEW ORIGINAL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT >>
- Biomedical Research, Development, and Growth to Spur the Acceleration of New Technologies (BRDG-SPAN) Pilot Program (RC3) to accelerate the transition of research innovations and technologies toward the development of products or services that will improve human health, help advance the mission of NIH and create significant value and economic stimulus. VIEW ORIGINAL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT >>
- Building Sustainable Community-Linked Infrastructure to Enable Health Science Research (RC4) to support the development, expansion, or reconfiguration of infrastructures needed to facilitate collaboration between academic health centers and community-based organizations for health science research. VIEW ORIGINAL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT >>
- NIH Announces the Availability of Recovery Act Funds for Administrative Supplements for Comparative Effectiveness Research Workforce Development to expand the numbers of researchers qualified to oversee or conduct comparative effectiveness research. VIEW ORIGINAL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT >>
- NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research (RC1) to support research on topic areas that address specific scientific and health research challenges in biomedical and behavioral research that would benefit from significant two-year jump-start funds. VIEW ORIGINAL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT >>
- Recovery Act Limited Competition: Institutional Comparative Effectiveness Research Mentored Career Development Award (KM1) to support mentored career development in support of comparative effectiveness research in an interdisciplinary environment catering to the needs of diverse populations of scholars including (but not limited to) those with backgrounds in biostatistics, epidemiology, health economics, pharmacology, medicine and dentistry. VIEW ORIGINAL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT >>
- Recovery Act Limited Competition: NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet) Short-term Mentored Career Development Awards in the Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences for Mid-career and Senior Investigators (K18) to support established, mid-career and senior investigators in their development of research capability in basic behavioral and social sciences research from three months to one year in duration. VIEW ORIGINAL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT >>
- Recovery Act Limited Competition: The NIH Director’s ARRA Funded Pathfinder Award to Promote Diversity in the Scientific Workforce (DP4) to diversify the workforce to lead to the recruitment of the most talented researchers from all groups; to improve the quality of the educational and training environment; to balance and broaden the perspective in setting research priorities; to improve the ability to recruit subjects from diverse backgrounds into clinical research protocols; and to improve the Nation's capacity to address and eliminate health disparities. VIEW ORIGINAL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT >>
- Recovery Act Limited Competition: NIH Director’s Opportunity for Research in Five Thematic Areas (RC4) to develop and implement critical research innovations in one or more of the following five thematic areas:
- Applying Genomics and Other High Throughput Technologies
- Translating Basic Science Discoveries into New and Better Treatments
- Using Science to Enable Health Care Reform
- Focusing on Global Health
- Reinvigorating the Biomedical Research Community
VIEW ORIGINAL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT >>
- Small Business Catalyst Awards for Accelerating Innovative Research (R43) to encourage small businesses that propose to accelerate innovation through high-risk, high-reward research and development that has commercial potential and is relevant to the mission of NIH. VIEW ORIGINAL FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT >>
To see all Recovery Act funding opportunities available from the National Institutes of Health, visit Recovery Act Grant Information. For more specific award information visit the Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT) page.
Guidance for Grantees
Drawing Down Recovery Act Funds From the Payment Management System
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Contact Information
For further information about NCRR opportunities supported through the Recovery Act, contact:
Louise E. Ramm, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
National Center for Research Resources
National Institutes of Health
31 Center Drive, Suite 3B11, MSC 2128
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-2128
Telephone: 301-435-0879
Fax: 301-480-3658
E-mail: RammL@mail.nih.gov
