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NIH and NSF Economic Stimulus (Recovery) Basics for PIs: (updated March 5, 2009)

NIH $8.2B Research and Research related, $1B Extramural Research Facilities, $300M Shared Inst., and $400M AHRQ

NSF $2B Research and Research Related, $1B Facilities, Equipment and other

1. Pending proposals already submitted: Both NIH and NSF intend to award new two year stimulus awards from the well reviewed applications they already have. NSF will not include applications they rejected prior to October 1, 2008. NIH has not yet specified how far back they will go to find worthwhile applications. Both NIH and NSF will be requesting budget and work scope revisions (to fit the two year period of the stimulus legislation) that we will submit administratively. Some requests will be via email and, for NIH, some via the COMMONS, the first several received have requested the revised budgets and work-scope in one week or less. Those NIH applications submitted as modular will require detailed two year stimulus budgets.

2. Awards already received: NSF will not be making any supplements. NIH programs will make administrative supplements and seek competitive supplements (to be decided by program area -check with you program officer – some are not yet sure and some are already requesting supplements). The separate tracking of the stimulus awards will preclude NIH from restoring previous budget cuts by amending the current award – administrative supplements, awarded as separate stimulus awards will be used instead.

3. New competitive applications: NSF and NIH will also be funding new, not yet submitted applications. For NSF these will be primarily for Major Research Equipment > $2M apiece ($300M) and Research Facilities ($200M). For NIH they will be for shared equipment ($300M), facility renovation/construction ($1B), comparative effectiveness research ($400M), and Challenge Grants of up to $500K/ yr. for two years ($100 – 200M). RFAs for other than NIH Shared Instruments (due March 23rd) should follow soon.