Recovery Act: Funds for Competitive Revision Applications

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the opportunity for investigators and United States institutions/organizations with active NIH-supported research project grants (including SBIR and STTR) to submit revision applications (formerly termed competitive supplements) to support a significant expansion of the scope or research protocol of approved and funded projects. Support for these revision applications will come from funds provided to NIH through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. In addition, Recovery Act funds allocated to NIH specifically for comparative effectiveness research (CER) may be available to support supplements.

Revision applications must be for costs to support new research objectives and aims that are outside of the scope of the approved parent grant. A request for funds to support work within the general scope of the peer-reviewed activities and aims approved within the parent grant should be submitted as an administrative supplement.

For all revision applications, the Project Director/Principal Investigator (PD/PI) must be the same as the PD/PI on the parent award. For Multiple PD/PI parent awards, the Contact PD/PI must be the PD/PI listed on the revision request.

Examples of the types of revisions that would be appropriate include, but are not limited to the following:
--Hiring students, postdocs or other personnel to accomplish new scientific objectives or to generate novel resources.
--Making investments in technology essential to expand the goals of the project or to enhance energy efficiency in the expansion of the project.
--Requesting that a single PD/PI grant be changed to a multiple PD/PI grant or otherwise modifying the multiple PD/PI team in order to add and pursue new scientific goals. (NOTE: a Multiple PD/PI Leadership Plan will be required as part of the application.)

Eligible Entities

Any entity eligible to have applied for active NIH research grants.

This announcement is for revision applications to active NIH Research Grants, including, but not limited to, R01, R03, R15, R21, R25, R33, R34, R37, R21/R33, R41, R42, R43, R44, SC1, SC2, SC3 grants, and Program Project grants, Center grants, Cooperative Agreements, Training Grants, and Institutional Career Development Awards. Recognize that these are 2-year awards and probably are most appropriate at the post-doctoral level.

Individual Institutes and Centers (ICs) have more detailed eligibility information on their own Web sites. See:
http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/ic_supp.html

Fellowships (Fs) and Conference Grants (R13s) will not be considered for revisions. To be eligible, the parent grant must be active at the time the revision application is submitted, and the research proposed in the revision must be accomplished within the current competitive segment.

Available Funds

There is no maximum dollar limit on the budget request for a revision application; however, the requested budget must be reasonable and appropriate for the work being proposed. (Note that equipment purchases cannot exceed $100,000).

Note: For this revision opportunity, prior approval from the IC staff is not needed to submit an application with a budget greater than $500,000 direct costs in any year. (Applicants should ignore the e-submission validation warning regarding the NIH $500,000 per year limit on direct costs.)

In addition, domestic U.S. institutions planning to submit applications that include foreign components should be aware that requested funding for any foreign components should not exceed 10% of the total requested direct costs or $25,000 per year (per subcontract/subaward or in aggregate for multiple subcontracts/subawards), whichever is less.

Cost Sharing

Dependant on IC.  See http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/ic_supp.html.

Facilities and Administrative Costs

Allowable. 

Note: Justification must be provided for each segment of the budget in the revision application, including F&A costs.  The budget provided for the revision application must match the budget provided in the parent application. For instance, if the parent application was submitted using the Modular budget component, then the revision application must also use the Modular budget component.

Key Dates

Dependant on IC.  See http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/ic_supp.html.

More Info + Submissions

Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Expires: May 31, 2009

Submissions for this opportunity are not handled by RI STAC or RI EPSCoR. Please follow the link below for more information on the opportunity and how to submit a response.

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