News Brief: NIH Announces Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research
April 1, 2009 2 minutes read
NIH Announces Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research
The national institutes of health (NIH) has received new funds for Fiscal Years (FYs) 2009 and 2010 as part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009. The NIH has designated at least $200 million in FYs 2009 and 2010 for a new initiative called the NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research.
The NIH has identified a range of Challenge Areas that focus on specific knowledge gaps, scientific opportunities, new technologies, data generation, or research methods that would benefit from an influx of funds to quickly advance the area in significant ways. Each NIH institute, center, and office - including the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) - has selected specific Challenge Topics within the broad Challenge Areas related to its mission.
NIH anticipates funding 200 or more grants, each of up to $1 million in total costs, pending the number and quality of applications and availability of funds. In addition, Recovery Act funds allocated to NIH specifically for comparative effectiveness research (CER) may be available to support additional grants. Projects receiving these funds will need to meet this definition of CER: "a rigorous evaluation of the impact of different options that are available for treating a given medical condition for a particular set of patients. Such a study may compare similar treatments, such as competing drugs, or it may analyze very different approaches, such as surgery and drug therapy." Such research may include the development and use of clinical registries, clinical data networks, and other forms of electronic health data that can be used to generate or obtain outcomes data as they apply to CER. The application due date is April 27. 2009.
For general information on NCCAM's implementation of NIH Challenge Grants, contact: Richard Nahin, PhD, MPH, Acting Director, Division of Extramural Research, NCCAM, NIH, (301) 496-7801, [email protected]. For financial or grants management questions, contact: George Tucker, Director, Office of Grants Management, NCCAM, NIH, (301) 451-6330, [email protected].
The NIH has identified a range of Challenge Areas that focus on specific knowledge gaps, scientific opportunities, new technologies, data generation, or research methods that would benefit from an influx of funds to quickly advance the area in significant ways. Each NIH institute, center, and office - including the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) - has selected specific Challenge Topics within the broad Challenge Areas related to its mission.You have reached your article limit for the month. Subscribe now to access this article plus other member-only content.
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