The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) Shared Instrument Grant program encourages applications from groups of National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, specialized, commercially available instrumentation or an integrated system that costs at least $100,000. The maximum award is $600,000. Types of instruments supported include (1) confocal and electron microscopes, (2) biomedical imagers, (3) mass spectrometers, (4) DNA sequencers, (5) biosensors, (6) cell sorters, (7) X-ray diffraction systems, and (8) nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers, among others.
This funding opportunity will use the NIH S10 mechanism. NCRR intends to commit approximately $43 million in fiscal year 2011, to fund approximately 125 new awards. Since the cost of the various instruments will vary, it is anticipated that the size of awards will also vary.
Program Restrictions:
Under the general research support authority of Section 301(a) (3) of the Public Health Service Act, Shared Instrumentation Grant awards are made to public and non-profit domestic institutions only. These institutions include health professional schools, other academic institutions, hospitals, health departments, and research organizations. Note that federal institutions, foreign institutions, and for-profit institutions are not eligible to apply. A Federal institution is defined by the NIH as a Cabinet-level department or independent agency of the executive branch of the Federal Government or any component organization of such a department or agency.
Eligible principal investigators include any technically qualified research scientists. To be eligible to apply, three or more NIH funded investigators (Principal Investigators of active P01, R01, U01, R35, R37, DP1 or DP2 research grants) who will be users of the requested instruments must be identified.
There is no limit on the number of applications an institution may submit provided the applications are for different types of equipment.
Applicants may submit a resubmission application, but such applications must include an Introduction addressing the previous peer review critique (Summary Statement). See new NIH policy on resubmission (amended) applications (NOT-OD-09-003, NOT-OD-09-016).
Renewal (formerly "competing continuation" or "Type 2") applications are not permitted.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-082.html?CFID=8938339&CFTOKEN=83417786
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