NIH Recovery Act
Funding Opportunities and Resources

Internal Deadline Reminder:
RMG is pooling all their resources to deal with the increase in proposal volume.  
Due to this high volume, proposals that do not meet the 5-business day internal deadline are at serious risk of not being submitted in time to meet the NIH deadline.  RMG will ensure proposals that meet the 5-business day internal deadline are submitted to the sponsor on time.  RMG will not be held accountable for proposals that miss the sponsor deadline if they are received with less than 5-business days.  Please note deadline waivers will not be approved for these submissions. 

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Active/Current ARRA-Recovery Act Funding Opportunities
ARRA-Recovery Act Administrative Supplements
ARRA Recovery Act funding opportunites for which Stanford is NOT eligible
ARRA Recovery Act funding opportunitieswhich required an internal selection process
ARRA Recovery Act funding opportunities (deadlines have passed)

Recovery Act 2009 Limited Competition: AHRQ Clinical and Health Outcomes Initiative in Comparative Effectiveness (CHOICE) Grants (R01)  RFA-HS-10-003
AHRQ-Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Amount of funding: up to $10M total costs for up to 3yrs)
Deadlines:
Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): November 18, 2009
Application Receipt Date(s): December 16, 2009
Unlimited applicants permitted.

Recovery Act 2009 Limited Competition: Innovative Adaptation and Dissemination of AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Research Products (iADAPT) (R18)  RFA-HS-10-004
AHRQ-Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Amount of funding: up to $1.5M in total costs for up to 3 yrs
Deadlines:
Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): November 18, 2009
Application Receipt Date(s): December 16, 2009
Unlimited applicants permitted.

Recovery Act Limited Competition: Building Sustainable Community-Linked Infrastructure to Enable Health Science Research (RC4) RFA-OD-09-010
Sponsored by multiple institutes
Amount of funding: up to $1 milliion in total costs for up to 3 yrs
Deadlines:
Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): November 12, 2009
Application Receipt Date(s): December 11, 2009
Unlimited applicants permitted.

NIAID Protection of Human Health by Immunology and Vaccines (U01, U19) RFA-AI-09-040
Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): September 15, 2009
Application Receipt Dates(s): October 15, 2009
Unlimited applicants permitted.

NCMHD Exploratory Centers of Excellence (P20) RFA-MD-09-007
Stanford is not eligible for this RFA.

Recovery Act Funding Opportunities (deadlines have passed)

The deadlines have passed for the Challenge Grant and Grand Opportunities, Autism Spectrum funding opportunities.
For a complete list of ARRA funding opportunities, go to the NIH website.

Additional Recovery Act Funding Opportunities which limited the numbers of applications from Stanford.

The internal selection process for these funding opportunities have been completed:

NCMHD Community Participation in Health Disparities Intervention Research Planning Phase (R24) (RFA-MD-09-006) An multidisciplinary committee, including the Office of Community Health and Med/SCRP, selected the applicant to represent the university for this RFA.

NCMHD Dissertation Research Award to Increase Diversity (R36)
RFA-MD-09-008 An internal applicant has been selected.

NCRR Enabling National Networking of Scientists and Resource Discovery (U24)  RFA-RR-09-009  Only one application is permitted from the university. (This is being determined by the Dean's office and Dean of Research Office.)
  
NIH Supporting New Faculty Recruitment to Enhance Research Resources through Biomedical Research Core Centers (P30) 
RFA-OD-09-005 (The internal selection process was completed.)

NCRR Core Facility Renovation, Repair, and Improvement (G20)RFA-RR-09-007  (internal selection completed)

NCRR Extramural Research Facilities Improvement Program (C06)
RFA-RR-09-008  (internal selection process completed)

NCRR High-End Instrumentation Grant Program (S10)  PAR-09-118
Duplicate instrument requests could not be submitted so an internal review process was initiated university-wide. That process has been completed.

If you have any questions, please contact Jeanne Heschele at RMG at jheschele@stanford.edu.

There will be additional reporting requirements for those investigators receiving NIH Stimulus funds. The draft reporting requirements were issued on April 1, 2009 in the Federal Register. (Download Federal Register containing the OMB definitions )

The requirements include reporting the number of "jobs or positions created" and the number of "jobs or positions retained". As you are preparing your proposals, several of you have raised questions about what these terms mean. The draft notice in the Federal Register defines these terms as follows:

"Job or positions created" means those new positions created and filled, or previously existing unfilled positions that are filled, as a result of Recovery Act funding.

"Jobs or positions retained" means those previously existing filled positions that are retained as a result of Recovery Act funding.

This section goes on to state,

At a minimum, this estimate shall include any new positions created and any existing filled positions that were retained to support of carry out Recovery Act projects or activities managed directly by the recipient, and if know, by sub-recipients.  A job cannot be reported as both created and retained.

As you are preparing your proposals please be careful how you define and describe the job creation and/or retention. If you receive the funding you may have to justify how you came up with these estimates, and you should have a solid rationale for your calculations.

Also be aware that post doc and employee appointments paid by NIH Stimulus funds will be co-terminous with this funding.

If you receive the award, you should be prepared to document your rationale for the calculation of jobs created and retained, and you should plan to conduct and document a conversation with the individual whose job was "retained" or "created" to make clear the circumstances around their appointment and the contingent nature of their appointment.

The Recovery Act Proposal Equipment Form    must be completed for all School of Medicine Recovery Act Grant Proposals when capital equipment is budgeted.

In efforts to streamline the process involved in purchasing capital equipment, procurement is willing to engage in up front negotiating with vendors. This will allow procurement to expedite the purchase of the equipment if your proposal is selected for funding.