2014 By the Numbers

Application and award summary data for fiscal year 2014 are now available in the NIH Data Book. These data are of particular interest for all of us this year, considering the historic low of the success rate last year, and the reduction of NIH’s budget in fiscal year 2013, due to sequestration. For this reason, in the table below, we include both FY 2013 and FY 2012 data for comparison purposes. We received 51,073 competing RPG applications at NIH in fiscal year 2014, an increase compared to last year, but still below the highest number of applications received by NIH in a fiscal year (51,313 applications in FY 2012). We’ll continue to monitor this closely, to see if there is a true downward trend in incoming RPG applications, and to observe the effects of the new resubmission policy announced last April. Looking at data across both competing and non-competing awards, the average size of RPGs increased to a historical high ($472,827), but in constant dollars (normalized to 1999 value of a dollar as per the biomedical research price index) it is similar to 2012 ($293,463 in FY14 versus $293,141 in FY12). In FY14, the average size of R01-equivalent awards was the highest in history ($427,083), but constant dollars it is the smallest award size since 1999 ($265,072) except for during the FY13 sequestration ($254,719). The large increase in the average size of RPG awards (up 7% compared to FY13, and up 4% compared to FY12) can be explained by the number of large collaborative...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - Category: Research Authors: Tags: Rock Talk applications awards Funding data Success Rate Source Type: funding