Harbor-UCLA Pediatrics

Thanks to the Stimulus Package, the NIH is soliciting applications for competitive supplements ("revision applications") to existing NIH grants (R01 and R21, for example). The revision should expand the scope of the existing project, while meeting the goals of fiscal stimulus (so, hire some post-docs!).

**Note: For this revision opportunity, prior approval from the IC staff is not needed to submit an application with a budget greater than $500,000 direct costs in any year. (Applicants should ignore the e-submission validation warning regarding the NIH $500,000 per year limit on direct costs.)

In addition to the revision applications, there is also a solicitation for administrative supplements to existing grants.

Read more below:

Revision Applications
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the opportunity for investigators and United States institutions/organizations with active NIH-supported research project grants (including SBIR and STTR) to submit revision applications (formerly termed competitive supplements) to support a significant expansion of the scope or research protocol of approved and funded projects. 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 for revision applications to active NIH Research Grants, including, but not limited to, R01, R03, R15, R21, R25, R33, R34, R37, R21/R33, R41, R42, R43, R44, SC1, SC2, SC3 grants, and Program Project grants, Center grants, Cooperative Agreements, Training Grants, and Institutional Career Development Awards. Recognize that these are 2-year awards and probably are most appropriate at the post-doctoral level. (Note: Most Ks and Ts are eligible for administrative supplements [see NOT-OD-09-056].) Individual Institutes and Centers (ICs) have more detailed eligibility information on their own Web sites. See http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/ic_supp.html.

Potential applicants should review the instructions for Revision Applications issued by their funding IC (See NIH Institute & Center (IC) Web Sites) before responding to this Notice. Some ICs will consider Revision Applications only in target areas identified on their Web sites.

Fellowships (Fs) and Conference Grants (R13s) will not be considered for revisions.
The deadline for receipt of these revision applications is April 21, 2009. Resubmissions will only be accepted if this notice is reissued.

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-058.html

Administrative Supplements

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 accelerating the tempo of scientific research on active grants.

Individual NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) have more detailed eligibility information on their own Web sites. See http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/ic_supp.html

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-056.html