1. Rock Talk: NIH Support of Biomedical Research
NIH Regional Seminar on
Program Funding And Grants Administration
June 2013
Sally J. Rockey, PhD
Deputy Director for Extramural Research
National Institutes of Health

2. Fiscally Challenging Times

3. Research Project Grants: Competing applications, awards, and success rates
Data and chart description for this slide can be located at 3

4. Special Council Review
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5. A2 Policy Data

6. A2 Policy Data
A2 Policy Data Figure 1

7. A2 Policy – time to award data

8. A2 Policy Data - estimated effect

10. % Applications Awarded
All Applications
Locus of Review
Applications
Awards
% Applications Awarded
CSR
48,642
8,111
17%
ICs
9,737
2,411
25%
R01 Applications
RFA Applications

12. Investigator-Initiated RPG Direct Costs: Requested and Awarded

13. Sources of Increase in Competing Applications
What contributes to the increase in the amount requested? First, the total number of these applications has almost doubled—from 25,000 in 1998 to almost 50,000 in The average number of applications per applicant has also risen slightly (from 1.3 to 1.5) and that contributes somewhat to the total increase in demand, depicted by the red portion of the bars. However, the major contributor to the increased demand is a large growth in the number of applicants—from about 19,000 in 1998 to approximately 32,000 in This contribution is depicted by the blue portion of the bars.
Total applications – 25,000 to ~50,000
Average applications/applicant – 1.3 to1.5 (red contribution)
Number of applicants – 19,000 to ~32,000 (blue contribution)

15. Applications and applicants in a 5 year period
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
thru
2009
2010
2011
2012
Total Number of Different RPG Applicants
55,750
58,681
62,509
65,710
69,011
72,773
74,872
75,969
78,386
81,066
83,546
Number of Competing RPG Applications
148,878
159,975
175,951
193,078
212,535
232,891
244,212
248,773
252,259
255,564
258,802
Scenarios:
No increase in applicants and only a higher application rate (from 0.54 to applications/investigator/year) – RPG applications would have grown 16% from 148,878 applications to ~170,000.
Increase in applicants only – RPG applications would have grown about 50%, from 148,878 to almost 225,000.
Observed increase: 148,878 to 258,802

17. Number of Unique Competing Applicant Institutions
New unique competing applicant institutions

18. Number of Unique Competing Awardee Institutions
New unique competing AWARDEE INSTITUTIONS

20. K99 Changes

21. Better Biomedical Workforce DataY

22. BEST Program - Broadening Experiences in Science Training
BEST Program announced

36. Percentage Distribution of NIH Research Project Applicants by Organization within a Degree Type
Fiscal Year
Organization MD
MD/PhD
PhD
Total
Applicants(%)
Applicants
(%)
2011
Higher Education excluding Medical Schools
8.6%
14.9%
46.3%
37.2%
Independent Hospitals
13.9%
12.0%
5.0%
7.1%
Medical Schools
69.5%
65.5%
41.1%
48.0%
Research Institutes
8.1%
7.7%
7.6%
2011 Total
100.0%
Notes:  Research Project Grants in FY 2011 include activity codes: ‘R00′, ‘R01′, ‘R03′, ‘R15′, ‘R21′, ‘R22′, ‘R23′, ‘R29′, ‘R33′, ‘R34′, ‘R35′, ‘R36′, ‘R37′, ‘R55′, ‘R56′, ‘RC1′, ‘RC2′, ‘RC3′, ‘RC4′, ‘RL1′, ‘RL2′, ‘RL5′, ‘RL9′, ‘P01′, ‘P42′, ‘PN1′, ‘UA5′,’UC1′, ‘UC2′, ‘UC3′, ‘UC4′,’UH2′, ‘UH3′, ‘UH5′, ‘UM1′,’UC7′, ‘U01′, ‘U19′, ‘U34′, ‘DP1′, ‘DP2′, ‘DP3′, ‘DP4′, ‘DP5′
Excludes ARRA, Superfund, reimbursables
Applications from other types of organization such as, Other Domestic Non-Profit, Domestic for Profit, and Foreign, that represent only 5 % of the total, are not shown

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