NIA FY 2011 Funding Policy Updated Funding Policy Expands Research Opportunities

Updated Funding Policy Expands Research Opportunities

NIA has posted new funding policies for FY 2011 for
established, new, and early-stage investigators. Research grant applications requesting less than $500,000 in direct costs will be paid through the 11th percentile, and RPGs seeking $500,000 or more will be paid through the 8th percentile. NIA retains its commitment to early-stage and other new investigators, for whom funding lines will be extended 5 and 3 percentage points, respectively.

The funding policy appears at:
http://www.nia.nih.gov/GrantsAndTraining/Policies/2011-05-Update.htm

For questions, please contact Tamara Jones, Ph.D., NIA
Senior Policy Advisor, at: 301-451-8835 301-451-8835

Slides from Dr. Hodes’ February 25 Meeting with FONIA

Following the meeting with Dr. Hodes, the members of the Friends of NIA who were present, decided to support the following request for NIA in Fiscal Year 2012:

Support the President’s 2012 request for NIH as a floor and the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research recommendation($35 billion) as a ceiling. Within the requested increase for NIH, the Friends of NIA ask that NIA receive $1.4 billion in FY 2012–a recommendation echoed by the Leadership Conference on Aging, reflecting the Institute’s needs and current scientific research opportunities.

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