Administrative Supplements Providing Summer Research Experiences

About Common Fund Summer Research Experiences Applications

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the opportunity for investigators and United States institutions/organizations with active NIH Research Grants to request administrative supplements for the purpose of promoting job creation, economic development, and accelerating the pace and achievement of scientific research. These supplements will also encourage students to seriously pursue research careers in the health related sciences, as well as provide elementary, middle school, and high school teachers, community college faculty, and faculty from non-research intensive institutions with short term research experiences in NIH-funded laboratories.

Support for these supplements will come from funds provided to NIH through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“Recovery Act” or “ARRA”), Public Law 111-5. In addition, Recovery Act funds allocated to NIH specifically for comparative effectiveness research (CER) may be available to support supplements. Projects receiving these funds will need to meet this definition of CER: “a rigorous evaluation of the impact of different options that are available for treating a given medical condition for a particular set of patients. Such a study may compare similar treatments, such as competing drugs, or it may analyze very different approaches, such as surgery and drug therapy.” Such research may include the development and use of clinical registries, clinical data networks, and other forms of electronic health data that can be used to generate or obtain outcomes data as they apply to CER.

This announcement is one of three ARRA administrative supplement/competitive revision notices issued by NIH. Approximately $1 billion of ARRA funds will be obligated by September 30, 2010 to support requests submitted in response to these three notices or any reissuance of these notices.

This initiative is one of several being offered by the Common Fund to help fulfill the goals of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to help stimulate the economy through support of biomedical and behavioral research. Additional information on the Recovery Act and related NIH opportunities is available through the Office of Extramural Research. This administrative supplement solicitation encourages submissions in all scientific and programmatic areas funded by NIH. Support may be requested for up to 2 years for qualified grants.

Scientific Priorities

The NIH Common Fund supports research projects whose areas of science span the missions of the NIH Institutes and Centers. For this initiative, the Common Fund will restrict support to those parent awards that have been made through NIH Roadmap initiatives. Scientific objectives that have not been peer reviewed cannot be supported through Administrative Supplements.

Funding Priorities

The Common Fund does not have a targeted amount of ARRA funds that it intends to spend on Administrative Supplements. The Common Fund will accept applications for administrative supplements to active NIH Roadmap-initiated Grants or Research Grants and Research Program and Center Grants (Ps), including, but not limited to, DP1, DP2, P01 and R01 grants, as well as Career Development Awards (Ks); Institutional Training Grants (Ts); Cooperative Agreements (Us) and Educational Development Awards.

Application Receipt Dates:

To be considered for funding in FY2009, applications must be received by 5PM, EST, April 21, 2009. It is anticipated that additional receipt dates may be added in the future for applications to be considered for funding in FY2010.

Address for Sending Administrative Supplement Applications:

Administrative Supplement applications should be submitted to the IC Program contact listed in the Notice of Grant Award for the parent award.

Contact Information

For specific information on the responsiveness of the Administrative Supplement application that you are submitting, please contact the IC Grants Management or Program contact for the parent award.

For general information on Common Fund implementation of Administrative Supplements, contact:

Brenda Weis, Ph.D.
Operations Team Leader
OD/Office of Strategic Coordination
National Institutes of Health
301-435-5840
weis@mail.nih.gov

For general information on Common Fund Financial or Grants Management questions, contact:

Scott Jackson
Process Manager
OD/Office of Strategic Coordination
National Institutes of Health
301-496-9123
jacksonsc@mail.nih.gov

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