# Presentation: 049597

## RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS (RPGs)Size of Awards

**RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS ****(RPGs)****Size of Awards**

## TABLE OF CONTENTS

| RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS | SLIDE NUMBER |
| --- | --- |
| RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS BUDGET SHARE OF ACTUAL TOTAL NIH BUDGET FY 2007 | 3 |
| RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS BUDGET SHARE OF ENACTED TOTAL NIH BUDGET FY 2008 | 4 |
| AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF ALL RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS | 5 |
| AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS – P01 | 6 |
| AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS – R01 | 7 |
| AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS – R03 | 8 |
| AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS – R15 | 9 |
| AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS – R21 | 10 |
| AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS – R37 | 11 |
| AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS – U01 | 12 |
| AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS – U19 | 13 |
| NUMBER OF RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS BY INSTITUTES AND CENTERS | 14 |
| Research Project Grants: Success Rates and Funding Rates | 15 |
| SUCCESS RATE OF RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT APPLICATIONS | 16 |
| FUNDING RATE OF RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT APPLICANTS | 17 |
| Research Project Grants: as a Percent of All Research Grants and Solicited Awards  | 18 |
| NUMBER OF RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT AWARDS AS A PERCENT OF ALL RESEARCH GRANT AWARDS | 19 |
| RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT FUNDING AS A PERCENT OF ALL RESEARCH GRANT FUNDING | 20 |
| NUMBER OF RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS AWARDED THROUGH SOLICITED RESEARCH | 21 |
| RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS FUNDED THROUGH SOLICITED RESEARCH | 22 |
| DEFINITIONS AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION | 23 |
| DEFINITIONS AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION | 24 |

## RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS BUDGET SHARE OF ACTUAL TOTAL NIH BUDGETFY 2007

**Notes:**
Source: OB

## RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS BUDGET SHARE OF ENACTED TOTAL NIH  BUDGETFY 2008

**Notes:**
Source: OB

## AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF ALL RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS

**AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF ALL RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS**

**Fiscal Year**

**Average Award Amount**
**(in thousands)**

**Notes:**
The average cost of awards has been approaching the 75th percentile of awards.  This is caused by the presence of some very large research projects, which raise the average.

Source:  IMPAC-II Pub files.  Data are available at I:\building one\budget retreat may 2007\avg_rpg_070525_rfm.xls
* RPG’s include R01, R23, R29, R37, DP1, P01, P42, PN1, R03, R15, R21, R22, R23, R33, R34, R35, R36, R37, R55, R56, UC1, UC7, U01, and U19 mechanisms

## AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS  –  P01

**AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS  –  P01**

**Average Award Amount**
**(in thousands)**

**Fiscal Year**

**Notes:**
P01Research Program Projects -- provide an institution with support of a multidisciplinary, often long-term research program with an objective or theme involving the organized efforts of groups of investigators. Awarded on behalf of a principal investigator, the grant can support projects and shared resources. 

## AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS  –  R01

**AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS  –  R01**

**Fiscal Year**

**Average Award Amount**
**(in thousands)**

**Notes:**
R01 Research Project Grants -- provide support to an institution (domestic or foreign) on behalf of a principal investigator for a project proposed by the investigator. Most NIH research is through the R01. Rarely, such a grant may be awarded directly to an individual. 

## AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS   –  R03

**AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS   –  R03**

**Fiscal Year**

**Average Award Amount**
**(in thousands)**

**Notes:**
R03 Small Grants -- provide limited research support usually for preliminary, short-term projects. They are nonrenewable. For more information, see the Small and Exploratory/Developmental Research Grants SOP. Also see the March 2, 2006, Guide notice. 

## AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS   –  R15

**AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS   –  R15**

**Fiscal Year**

**Average Award Amount**
**(in thousands)**

**Notes:**
R15 Academic Research Enhancement Awards -- support scientists at eligible institutions for small-scale, new, or expanded, health-related research projects such as pilot projects and feasibility studies; development, testing, and refinement of research techniques; secondary analysis of available data sets; and similar work showing research capability. This award is for smaller four year public and private colleges and universities that provide undergraduate training for a significant number of research scientists but have had a limited share of NIH funds. For more information, see the Academic Research Enhancement Awards SOP. 

## AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS   –  R21

**AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS   –  R21**

**Fiscal Year**

**Average Award Amount**
**(in thousands)**

**Notes:**
R21 Exploratory/Developmental Grants Phase I -- encourage new research in a given program area. Support generally is restricted for level and time. NIAID accepts investigator-initiated applications in response to the parent R21 announcement as well as its own R21 RFAs and PAs. For more information, see the March 2, 2006, Guide notice. 

## AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS   –  R37

**AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS   –  R37**

**Fiscal Year**

**Average Award Amount**
**(in thousands)**

**Notes:**
R37 Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Awards -- provide long-term support to a limited number of investigators who are likely to continue to perform in an outstanding manner. The initial 5-year award may be followed by a 3- to 5-year extension. Awardees are selected by NIH staff and advisors. For more information, see the MERIT Awards and Extensions SOP. 

## AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS   –  U01

**AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS   –  U01**

**Fiscal Year**

**Average Award Amount**
**(in thousands)**

**Notes:**
U01 Research Projects Cooperative Agreements -- set up an assistance relationship between NIH and the award recipient for projects similar to grants in which NIH acts as a partner in the research effort. 

## AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS   –  U19

**AVERAGE AWARD AMOUNT OF SELECT RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS   –  U19**

**Fiscal Year**

**Average Award Amount**
**(in thousands)**

**Notes:**
U19 Research Programs Cooperative Agreements -- support multiple projects directed toward a theme or program goal requiring a multidisciplinary and often long-term approach 

## NUMBER OF RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS BY INSTITUTES AND CENTERS

**Fiscal Year**

**NIH Institutes and Centers**

**Number of Awards**

## RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS (RPG)Success Rates and Funding Rates 

**RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS ****(RPG)****Success Rates and Funding Rates **

**Notes:**
Research Project Grants (RPG’s) are the largest subset of the category “Research Grants.”  The other categories are Research Centers, Research Career, and “Other Research.”

Research Project Grants include R01, R23, R29, R37, DP1, P01, P42, PN1, R03, R15, R21, R22, R23, R33, R34, R35, R36, R37, R55, R56, UC1, UC7, U01, and U19 mechanisms.  Awards made by the National Library of Medicine are excluded.  

Small Business (SBIR and STTR) awards are usually shown separately from research projects.

## SUCCESS RATES OF RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT APPLICATIONS

**Fiscal Year**

**Number of Applications / Awards**

**Success Rate**

**Notes:**
The number of applications  for competing RPG awards increased during the “Doubling period” (FY 1998 – 2003) and has continued.  The drop in the number of funded competing awards since then has resulted in lower success rates.  

Source:  Success rate files

## FUNDING RATE OF RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT APPLICANTS

**FUNDING RATE OF RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT APPLICANTS**

**Fiscal Year**

**Number of Applicants / Awardees**

**Funding Rate**

**Notes:**
The number of applications  for competing RPG awards increased during the “Doubling period” (FY 1998 – 2003) and has continued.  The drop in the number of funded competing awards since then has resulted in lower success rates.  

Source:  Success rate files

## RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS (RPGs) as a Percent of All Research Grants and Solicited Awards

**RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS (RPGs)**** ****as a Percent of All Research Grants and Solicited Awards**

**Notes:**
U19 Research Programs Cooperative Agreements -- support multiple projects directed toward a theme or program goal requiring a multidisciplinary and often long-term approach 

## NUMBER OF RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT AWARDS AS A PERCENT OF ALL RESEARCH GRANT AWARDS

**NUMBER OF RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT AWARDS AS A PERCENT OF ****ALL RESEARCH GRANT AWARDS**

**Fiscal Year**

**Number of Awards**
**(in thousands)**

**Percent of Awards**

**Notes:**

The number of research projects awards has increased by one third from FY 1998 (27,621 awards) to FY 2006 (36,812).  RPG’s continue to account for the bulk of NIH research grant awards, although the relative percent has fallen from 82% to 78.7%.

## RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT FUNDING AS A PERCENT OF ALL RESEARCH GRANT FUNDING

**RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT FUNDING AS A PERCENT OF ****ALL RESEARCH GRANT FUNDING**

**Fiscal Year**

**Funding**
**(in billions)**

**Percent Funding**

**Notes:**

In FY 1998, RPG’s accounted for 78% of the funds spent on Research Grants.  That decreased to 74% in FY 2006.  The amount spent on RPG’s rose from $7,662 million to $14,853 million over the same time.  In FY 2005, $15,030 was spent for research projects.

## NUMBER OF RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS AWARDED THROUGH SOLICITED RESEARCH

**NUMBER OF RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS AWARDED ****THROUGH SOLICITED RESEARCH**

**Fiscal Year**

**Number of Awards**
**(in thousands)**

**Percent of Awards**

**Notes:**

Since FY 1995, the number of RPG awards (competing and non-competing) has risen from 24,364 to 37,401 in FY 2004 before falling to 36,814 in FY 2006.  During that time, awards made in response to Requests for Applications (RFA’s) have varied as a proportion of total research projects, from a low of 8.0 percent (FY 1998) to a high of 11.6% (FY 2003).  The FY 2006 level was 9.1%

## RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS FUNDED THROUGH SOLICITED RESEARCH

**RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS FUNDED THROUGH SOLICITED RESEARCH**

**Fiscal Year**

**Funding**
**(in billions)**

**Percent Funding**

**Notes:**
While the amount spent for Research Project Grants (competing and noncompeting) has risen from $6,152 million in FY 1995 to $14,852 in FY 2006, then amount resulting from responses to Requests for Applications (RFA’s) has risen from $860 million (14% of total RPG) to $2,308 million) (15.5% of RPG total).

## DEFINITIONS AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

| TERM | DEFINITION | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Rate | Indicates the percentage of applicants receiving awards on a fiscal year basis. This percentage is computed by dividing the number of applicants that received funding by the total number of applicants that competed for a grant in the same fiscal year. 

Funding rates differ from success rates in that calculated percentages are based on applicants (individuals) and not applications. |  |
| Research Grants | Extramural awards made for Other Research Grants, Research Centers , Research Projects, and SBIR/STTRs.  
Includes the following: R, P, M, S, K, U series (excluding UC6) DP1, DP2, D42,G12. |  |
| Research Project Grants (RPGs) | Includes the following selected Research Grant and Cooperative Agreement activities: R00, R01, R03, R15, R21, R22, R23, R29, R33, R34, R35, R36, R37, R55, R56, RL1, RL2, RL5, RL9, P01, P42, PN1, UC1, UC7, U01, U19, U34, DP1,  and DP2. Also includes RPGs from NLM as of FY07.  

Exceptions:
 In 1980 & 1981 activity code, U01 was not a research project. 
 From 1989 until 1992 activity code, R55 was not a research project. 
 In 1986 NINR did not have any research projects. 
 From 1984 until 1989 NCRR did not have any research projects. 
 FIC did not have any research projects until 1994. 
 From 1991 until 1996 NCRR did not consider R21's research projects. 
 NLM had no research projects prior to 2007. 
 In FY 2002, P41s not RPG for NIGMS.  | Activity Code Descriptions |

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## DEFINITIONS AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

| TERM | DEFINITION | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Solicited Research | Responses to Requests for Applications (RFA’s) | Funding Opportunities and Notices |
| Success Rate
 | Indicates the percentage of reviewed applications receiving funding computed on a fiscal year basis. It is determined by dividing the number of competing applications funded by the sum of the total number of competing applications reviewed and the number of funded carryovers.
Success rates differ from funding rates in that calculated percentages are based on applications and not applicants (individuals). 

NOTE: Applications having one or more amendments in the same fiscal year are only counted once.  |  |

**DEFINITIONS AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION**