These grants may be awarded to universities, medical and other health professional schools, colleges, hospitals, research institutes, for-profit organizations and government institutions that sponsor and conduct biomedical research and development. Research grants may provide funds for salaries, equipment, supplies, travel, and other allowable direct costs of the research as well as for indirect costs to the sponsoring institution or organization. The R01 is considered the traditional grant mechanism. Current instructions can be obtained at the grant application page .
Faculty receives support for feasibility studies and other small scale research project.
AREA grants are limited in amount and duration of support. Applications are submitted on a once yearly basis, generally in June. Current guidelines can be obtained at the NIH Funding Program Guidelines . The P50 must have a well-defined central unifying theme consisting of three or more subprojects with supporting cores as appropriate. Each subproject must be unambiguously related to the central unifying theme.