Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (PAR-09-028)
• Purpose. The NCRR Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG)
program solicits applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to
purchase or upgrade commercially available instruments that cost at least
$100,000. There is no upper limit on the cost of the instrument, but the maximum
award is $500,000. Types of instruments supported include confocal and electron
microscopes, biomedical imagers, mass spectrometers, DNA sequencers, biosensors,
cell sorters, X-ray diffraction systems, and NMR spectrometers, among others.
• Application Submission/Receipt Date. March 23, 2009.
• Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. $43
million to fund approximately 125 new awards plus some
unspecified portion of the $300 million allocated to NCRR for equipment under
ARRA.
• Budget and Project Period. Awards are for one year and for
direct costs only. Cost sharing is not required.
• Eligible Project Directors/Principal Investigators
(PDs/PIs). Eligible principal investigators include any technically
qualified research scientists.
• User Group. For purposes of eligibility, a major user
group of three or more investigators must be identified. A minimum of three
major users must be principal investigators on NIH peer-reviewed research grants
at the time of the application and award. For purposes of this program, research
grants are defined as those grants awarded with the following activity codes:
P01, R01, U01, R35, R37, DP1 and DP2. The application should also show a clear
need for the instrumentation by projects supported by multiple NIH peer-reviewed
research grants (including, but not limited to, those listed above) and
demonstrate that these projects will require at least 75 percent of the total
usage of the instrument. Major users can be individual researchers, or a group
of investigators within the same department or from several departments at the
applicant institution. NIH extramural awardees from other nearby institutions
may also be included.
• Number of Applications. There is no limit on the number of
applications an institution may submit, provided the applications are for
different types of equipment. However, if two or more applications are submitted
for similar equipment (for example, two 600 MHz NMR spectrometers) from the same
institution, documentation from a high-level institutional official
must be provided stating that this is not an unintended
duplication, but part of a campuswide institutional plan. Therefore, if you did
not complete the UCSF Stimulus Response Shared Instruments Survey, please send
an email to
lmasiello@diabetes.ucsf.edu
containing the following information: name, department, instrument name,
instrument manufacturer, proposed instrument location (campus, building, room),
and names of three NIH-funded users. This information will be used to identify
potentially duplicative proposals. If your proposal is potentially duplicative,
you will be contacted with information about the other proposal so that you can
either collaborate or submit a formal justification for your request. This
justification will be reviewed by Gene Washington and, if determined to be
compelling, will be included in your submission.
• Resubmissions. Applicants may submit a resubmission
application, but such applications must include an introduction addressing the
previous peer-reviewed critique.
• Renewals. Renewal (formerly “competing continuation” or
“Type 2”) applications are not permitted.
• Review Criteria.
Enhanced
Review Criteria will be used.
Please click here for the full program announcement.