the results are for the national Institutes of challenge much discussed health grants and news is slightly better than expected: the agency has funded 840 projects, which puts the part of the mind boggling 20,000-plus applications funded at about 4%. This is catastrophic from the NIH grant usual rate of success of about 20%. But it beats the 1% -2% (0-400 subsidies) that NIH initially said it would fund.
The data comes from a preliminary report on how NIH spent the first half of its $ 10.4 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The tally comes to 12.788 applications funded for $ 4.35 billion in 09. (contracts add another $ 379 million.) Grant Categories include proposals already discussed that just missed the cut for the regular budget of the NIH, and project extensions (existing supplements and revisions). The distribution of the dollar (see chart): $ 1.51 billion (34.7%) for administrative supplements, $ 1.43 billion (32.9%) to the already examined applications, $ 1.15 billion (26.4 %) in stimulus competitions, $ 218 million (5%) revisions in competition, and $ 45 million (1%) to summer supplements.
This is quite consistent with the NIH plan last February to use most of the money to fund applications already examined and complement existing grants. The amount of money going to each type of award varies-a summer supplement on average $ 34,000, a grant already examined $ 368,000 per year. (Most scholars will receive a similar amount in 2010, so that the NIH has in fact spent most of its stimulus money.)
The $ 1.15 billion for stimulus funding competitions includes $ 389 million for the office of challenge grants from the NIH director and other institutes. The other major new program was the biggest purses of Greater Opportunity; NIH funded 376 such subsidies "GO" to the tune of $ 625 million for 2010. The data are not final and the numbers are still fluctuating. Research Reporter NIH today for challenge grants found they are up to 854.
Source: NIH
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