February 25, 2010 (historical)

Fiscal Year 2009 Actual Obligations*

Budget Mechanism No. of Awards Amount
Research Grants
Research Project Grants (RPG):
Noncompeting 756 $250,439,000
Administrative Supplements (20) 2,547,000
Competing 238 78,880,000
    Subtotal 994 331,866,000
Small Business Innovation/Technology 36 12,380,000
    Subtotal, RPGs 1,030 344,246,000
Research Centers 40 41,132,000
Other Research:
Career Programs 152 18,510,000
Cooperative Clinical Research 0 0
Minority Biomedical Research Support 0 0
Other 32 3,150,000
    Subtotal 184 21,660,000
Total, Research Grants 1,254 407,038,000
Research Training FTTP
Individual National Research Service Awards 64 3,010,000
Institutional National Research Service Awards 257 12,385,000
    Subtotal 321 15,395,000
Research & Development Contracts 55 21,989,000
Intramural Research   54,124,000
Research Management and Support   25,341,000
Total, NIAMS   523,887,000
RPG Success Rate**   19.9%

*Excludes $132.7 million appropriated to NIAMS in 2009 for short-term stimulus purposes under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) available for obligation across a two-year timeframe until September 30, 2010.

**Success rate indicates the percentage of reviewed RPG applications that receive funding.

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