FY2016 By The Numbers

Over the past few days, we released our annual web reports, success rates and NIH Data Book with updated numbers for fiscal year 2016. Overall, we see steady increases. In addition to looking back over the numbers we typically highlight in this post, we want to point out several new research project grant (RPG)-specific activity codes used to support extramural research. FY 2016 saw the launch of some new activity code uses, such the Phase 1 Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R61 – in lieu of the R21), of which 14 new projects were funded. Large-scale RPGs with complex structures like the RM1 increased substantially from 2015 (when we first began to fund RM1s), from slightly over $4 million in grant money to over $15 million. These activity codes, as well as those more familiar to you such as the R21, collectively supported a variety of specific scientific areas such as the improvement of outcomes in cancer research, support pilots for Alzheimer’s research, genomic research centers, and clinical studies for mental disorders. Over the past year, NIH grants supported almost 2,400 research organizations, including higher education, independent hospitals and research institutes. We received 54,220 competing research project grant applications in fiscal year 2016, a steady increase. Of these, 30,106 were applications for R01-equivalent grants (as a reminder, R01-equivalents are mostly R01s, but also include activity codes for similar independent RPG programs such as the R37 MER...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - Category: Research Authors: Tags: blog Open Mike Source Type: funding