Sequester Cuts May Have Driven NIH Grant Success Rates Down to 14% in 2013
2013-09-13 13:00
Research!America
Call to action. NIH Director Francis Collins (fourth from left) urged the audience at a Research!America forum to push for more biomedical research funding.
The automatic spending cuts and other reductions to the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) budget this year have caused slightly less damage than expected, NIH Director Francis Collins said yesterday. Preliminary data show that about 50 more grants were funded than projected, he said at a forum sponsored by Research!America. But success rates may have plunged even further than the agency predicted.
NIH’s budget shrunk by 5.5% this year, to $29.15 billion. As a result, NIH expects to fund about 650 fewer grants than it did the previous year. About 150, or nearly a quarter, of those grants were from investigators hoping to renew their award, Collins said. “We’re losing what we’ve already invested in,” he lamented during a panel discussion. In May, NIH had estimated that it would make 703 fewer new and competing awards for a total of 8283, but the new figure bumps that up to 8336.
The success rate—the number of proposals receiving fund
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