NIH-NCRR Shared Instrumentation Grant Program

The announcement and guidelines for the FY 2005 NIH National Center for Research Resources Shared Instrumentation Grant Program are available at the following link: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-05-028.html. Please note that the application deadline is Friday, March 22, 2005. Applications are limited to instruments that cost at least $100,000 per instrument or integrated instrument system. The maximum award under the program is now $500,000.

The School of Medicine is eligible to submit more than one application provided that each is for a different type of equipment. Types of instruments supported include confocal and electron microscopes, biomedical imagers, mass spectrometers, DNA sequencers, biosensors, cell sorters and NMR spectrometers, among others.

Please advise Gayle Mowbray Walters (gwalter2@jhmi.edu) in our office of your interest in applying, including the type of equipment, for this program no later than Friday, February 4, 2005, so that we can determine if more than one group wants to apply for the same type of equipment. Installation, alterations, renovations, and operating costs must be supported by departmental funds existing at the time of proposal. If more than one division of the University wishes to apply for the same kind of instrumentation, a letter from the Vice Provost for Research will be drafted by the applicant PI to document lack of overlap/duplication.

Large-scale sharing of needed instruments by sizable groups of PHS peer-review funded researchers is important for the application to succeed. Duplication of instruments previously awarded (click here to download) under this program will weaken the review score unless a current unmet need is well documented. Thank you for considering this important grant program.

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