ARRA (Recovery Act) Funding Opportunities

Research and Research Infrastructure "Grand Opportunities" "GO" grants program

(updated 5/19/09)

$200 million

RFA OD-09-004
Due Date: May 29, 2009 (applications may be submitted beginning April 27, 2009)

NIH Recovery Act funding opportunities related to Health Disparities

(updated 5/13/09)

Biomedical Research

(updated 3/12/09)

$8.2 billion

1) Select recently peer reviewed highly meritorious research grant applications (R01s and others), that can be accomplished in 2 years or less. These would not require a resubmission.

2) Projects to enhance the progress on research supported by existing grants. Funds will be made available through administrative supplements.

3) NIH Will Use $60 Million in Recovery Act Funds to Support Strategic Autism Research

Challenge Grants

(updated 4/21/09)

$200 million

NIH Challenge Grant Web Site

NIH Institutes/Centers have websites describing any additional requirements for Challenge Grant Applications. For a list of websites go to:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/challenge_award/
IC_ChallengeWebPage.htm

Challenge Grant Topic List
NIH Challenge Grant Checklist

RFA OD-09-003
Due Date: April 27, 2009 (applications may be submitted beginning March 27, 2009)

Research and Research Infrastructure "Grand Opportunities" "GO" grants program

(updated 3/24/09)

$200 million

Recovery Act Limited Competition: Supporting New Faculty Recruitment to Enhance Research Resources through Biomedical Research Core Centers (P30)

(updated 4/01/09)

$100 million

Instrumentation Programs

(updated 3/12/09)

$300 million

Renovation/Construction

(updated 3/12/09)

$1 billion

Academic Research Infrastructure Program: Recovery and Reinvestment (ARI-R²)

$200 million

(added 5/13/09)

The purpose of this program is to enhance the Nation's existing research facilities where sponsored and/or unsponsored research activities and research training take place to enable next-generation research infrastructure that integrates shared resources across user communities. Consistent with NSF's mission to strengthen the U.S. science and engineering enterprise, the ARI-R² program will:

• Update existing research facilities at institutions of higher education (including graduate and undergraduate institutions, among which are included community colleges) and other non-profit research organizations (e.g., independent research museums, independent research laboratories, and research consortia) in order to support research that can address the challenges of the 21st century.
• Enable academic departments, disciplinary and cross-disciplinary units, or multi-organization consortia to renovate research facilities through the addition or augmentation of cyberinfrastructure, other than general-purpose computing systems or data storage systems, to create environments that enhance research and integrate research with education.
• Improve access to and increase use of next-generation research facilities for researchers, educators and students.
• Assist research organizations, including those that have historically received limited Federal research and development funds, to improve their science and engineering research environments.

More information: here

Major Research Instrumentation Program   (MRI-R²)

$200 Million

(added 5/13/09)

The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) serves to increase access to shared scientific and engineering instruments for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education, museums and science centers, and not-for-profit organizations. This program especially seeks to improve the quality and expand the scope of research and research training in science and engineering, by providing shared instrumentation that fosters the integration of research and education in research-intensive learning environments.  Development and acquisition of research instrumentation for shared inter- and/or intra-organization use are encouraged, as are development efforts that leverage the strengths of private sector partners to build instrument development capacity at academic institutions.

More information: here