Analyses of Demographic-Specific Funding Rates for Type 1 Research Project Grant and R01-Equivalent Applications

Marie A. Bernard, M.D., Chief Officer forScientific Workforce Diversity In this post, we analyze funding rates for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 to FY 2022 Type 1 Research Project Grant (RPG) and Type 1 R01-Equivalent applicants according to the race-ethnicity of designated Principal Investigators (PIs). We used data from frozen, official, NIH success rate files. We obtained data on the race and ethnicity of PIs from their entries into the eRA Commons Personal Profile. As noted by NIH, PIs provide these data on a strictly voluntary basis, and these data are not used for making funding decisions. If individuals described themselves as Hispanic in the ethnicity field and not Black in the race field, then race-ethnicity was considered to be Hispanic; otherwise the individual’s race-ethnicity was based on their entry in the race field. As a reminder, NIH publishes three main kinds of grant outcome metrics, namely award rates, success rates, and funding rates. Award and success rates are application-based metrics, while funding rates are person-based. Throughout the report we refer for convenience to Principal Investigators (“PIs”) as applicants or awardees. In point of fact, applicants and awardees are institutions who in turn designate PIs; PIs are typically employees of the applicants and awardees. Figures 1 through 5 show the number of Type 1 RPG and R01-Equivalent applicants by race-ethnicity. In FY 2022 the number of white applicants declined while the number of Black and Hisp...
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