NIH Annual Snapshot – FY 2018 By the Numbers

We recently released our annual web reports and success rate data with updated numbers for fiscal year (FY) 2018. These web products represent annual snapshots of NIH research investments, which are highlighted in this post. Before delving into the numbers, we want to draw your attention to the new and modernized NIH Data Book recently released. This easy to navigate tool enables users to access and interact with a wealth of data ranging from NIH funding, research grant types, success rates, and much more (see this NIH Open Mike post for more). Now, let’s look at the numbers.  In FY 2018, NIH’s budget increased $2 billion over the previous year’s appropriations.  About 83 percent of the NIH budget supports extramural research. In FY2018, NIH issued 47,000 competing and non-competing research project grant (RPG) awards totaling about $26 billion.  Compared to extramural research expenditures in FY 2017, there were increases in number of competing applications, number of awards, success rates, and funding amount for both RPGs and R01-equivalent grants. The increases in funding supported an array of research areas across NIH, including activities focused around the BRAIN initiative, Alzheimer’s Disease, Cancer Moonshot, and the All of Us Program. NIH extramural dollars supported research conducted at more than 2,700 organizations.  Across both competing and non-competing RPG awards, 950 organizations receive $19,869,684,598,  an 8.5 per...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - Category: Research Authors: Tags: blog Open Mike FY 2018 Success Rate Source Type: funding