# Presentation: 733495

## Global Health Research Initiative Program for New Foreign Investigators (R01)“GRIP”

**http://www.fic.nih.gov/programs/research_grants/grip/faq.htm**

- Aron Primack, MD
- Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health

## Purpose

- Help overcome major barriers to returning scientists to low- and middle-income (developing) countries
- Continue the investment already made
- Increase the pool of foreign researchers
- Work on problems of local concern
- Improve the infrastructure of research in the foreign site
- Increase benefit for the research dollar

## Financial commitment

- Up to $50,000 per year for 3 – 5 years
- Approximately 10 per year

## Institutional Eligibility

- Public or private
- Must be foreign institutions from developing countries

## Individual Eligibility

- At least two years of training at an NIH campus
- Trained under Fogarty D43 training grants or in the intramural program at NIH
**INVEST or Humphrey Fellows from NIDA **Human Frontier Science Program
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- From developing countries and returning to developing countries
- Soon to complete or recently completed (within 4 years) or training
- Work done relating to scientific needs of the country or region

## Two GRIPS

- Basic Science  -- PAR-07-239
- Behavioral and Social Science -- PAR-07-328

- WHY?

- Reviewers have different expertise

## Co-funding Partners

- Fogarty International Center
- Office of AIDS Research
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Office of Dietary Supplements
- National Eye Institute
- Office of Research on Women’s Health
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
- National Institute on Aging
- National Institute on Child Health and Development
- Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Health Lung and Blood Institute
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

## Issuance of the PA

- 2002:  19 awards
- 2003:  11 awards
- 2004:  6 awards
- 2005:  10 awards
- 2006:  12 awards
- 2007:  10 awards (pending)

## Requirements

- Letter of intent by August 21 each year (describe your work!)
- Letter from training institution
-  -- Do they want to continue working with you?
- Description of previous work
-  -- Are you the right person to do this work?

## Requirements (cont.)

- Description of research to be done in home country
- Is it relevant to the country?
- Is it the right place to do the work?
- Letters of reference:  ability of the investigator and specifically to be a leader in research
- Human subject assurances
- Actual data is “just-in-time”
- Minorities and women addressed:  why?

## Collaborations with Previous Mentors

- Encourage collaborations with training institution
- Formal collaboration is not necessary
- Ongoing “mentorship” and partnership

## Websites

- NIH website for the program information
- http://www.fic.nih.gov/programs/research_grants/grip/index.htm
- GRIP website itself for investigators information
-    http://www.griponline.org/mc/page.do

## The NEW 424(R&R)IMPORTANT TO BEGIN THE PROCESS

- _[www.grants.gov](http://www.grants.gov/)_
- _[http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/](http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/)__ _
- Registrations
- DUNS number  (institution)
- CCR (institution)
- NCAGE (institution)
- ERA commons (institution AND             individual)

## Contacts

**Aron Primack**, MD, MA
- Fogarty International Center
- Tel: (301) 496-4596           primacka@mail.nih.gov
**Mr. Bruce Butrum**
- Grants Management Officer:  Fogarty International Center
- Telephone: (301) 496-1670        butrumb@mail.nih.gov

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