Rock Talk:NIH Support of Biomedical Research

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Sally J. Rockey, PhDDeputy Director for Extramural ResearchNational Institutes of Health

NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding And Grants Administration

June 2013

Fiscally Challenging Times

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Research Project Grants: Competing applications, awards, and success rates

Special Council Review

A2 Policy Data

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A2 Policy Data Figure 1A2 Policy Data

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A2 Policy – time to award data

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A2 Policy Data - estimated effect

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Locus of Review Applications Awards % Applications

AwardedCSR 48,642 8,111 17%

ICs 9,737 2,411 25%

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All Applications

R01 Applications

RFA Applications

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Investigator-Initiated RPG Direct Costs: Requested and Awarded

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Sources of Increase in Competing Applications

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• 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)

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Applications and applicants in a 5 year period 

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008thru thru thru thru thru thru thru thru thru thru thru2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Total Number of Different RPG

Applicants55,750 58,681 62,509 65,710 69,011 72,773 74,872 75,969 78,386 81,066 83,546

Number of Competing RPG

Applications148,878 159,975 175,951 193,078 212,535 232,891 244,212 248,773 252,259 255,564 258,802

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Scenarios:1. No increase in applicants and

only a higher application rate (from 0.54 to 0.62 applications/investigator/year) – RPG applications would have grown 16% from 148,878 applications to ~170,000.

2. 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

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Number of Unique Competing Applicant Institutions

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Number of Unique Competing Awardee Institutions

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K99 Changes

Better Biomedical Workforce Data

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BEST Program - Broadening Experiences in Science Training

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Fiscal Year Organization MD MD/PhD PhD Total

    Applicants(%)

Applicants(%)

Applicants(%)

Applicants(%)

2011Higher Education excluding Medical

Schools8.6% 14.9% 46.3% 37.2%

2011 Independent Hospitals 13.9% 12.0% 5.0% 7.1%2011 Medical Schools 69.5% 65.5% 41.1% 48.0%2011 Research Institutes 8.1% 7.7% 7.6% 7.7%

2011 Total   100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 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

Percentage Distribution of NIH Research Project Applicants by Organization within a Degree Type

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