PAR-19-179: Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

***Not a limited submission***

Internal Deadline:                          Contact the Office of Research if interested. Only applicable to PIs requesting cost share from the Provost:  Those not seeking cost share should apply directly to the NIH 

LOI:                                                        N/A                       

External Deadline:                          May 31, 2019, by 5:00 PM local time at the applicant organization. All types of applications allowed for this funding opportunity are due on this date.

Award Information:                        Type:  Grant

Estimated Number of Awards: ORIP intends to commit about $35 million in FY 2020 to fund an estimated 75 awards.

Anticipated Amount: Applications will be accepted that request a single, commercially available instrument or an integrated system. The minimum award is $50,000 of direct costs. There is no upper limit on the cost of the instrument, but the maximum award is $600,000 of direct costs. Since the cost of the various instruments will vary, it is anticipated that the amount of the award will also vary. S10 awards do not allow indirect costs.

Submission Process:                     PIs must submit their application as a Limited Submission through the Office of Research Application Portal: https://app.wizehive.com/apps/majorequipment

Materials to submit:

• Single Page Proposal Summary (0.5” margins; single-spaced; font type: Arial, Helvetica, or Georgia typeface; font size: 11 pt). Page limit includes references and illustrations. Pages that exceed the 1-page limit will be excluded from review.
• CV – (5 pages maximum)

Link to Award:                                  https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-19-179.html

Who May Serve as PI:                     The PD/PI chosen for this application should have documented (in the biographical sketch) technical expertise directly related to the type of the chosen instrument. The PD/PI does not need to have an NIH research grant or any other research support but is expected to be an expert on the requested instrument. The PD/PI may be a core director, tenured, or non-tenured faculty member of the applicant organization. The PD/PI must be affiliated with the applicant organization and must be registered on eRA Commons.

Purpose:

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to continue the Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program administered by ORIP. The objective of the Program is to make available to institutions expensive research instruments that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and that are needed for NIH-supported projects in basic, translational or clinical biomedical and bio-behavioral research. The SIG Program provides funds to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, state-of-the-art, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. An integrated instrumentation system is one in which the components, when used in conjunction with one another, perform a function that no single component could provide. The components must be dedicated to the system and not used independently.

Types of supported instruments include, but are not limited to: X-ray diffractometers, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, cell sorters, and biomedical imagers. Applications for “stand alone” computer systems (supercomputers, computer clusters and data storage systems) will only be considered if the system is solely dedicated to biomedical research.

All instruments, integrated systems, and computer systems must be dedicated to research only.

Foreign-made instruments are allowed.

The SIG Program will not support requests for:

• An instrument with a base cost of less than $50,000;
• Multiple instruments bundled together;
• Purely instructional equipment;
• Instruments used for clinical (billable) care;
• Institutional administrative management systems, clinical management systems;
• Software, unless it is integrated in the operation of the instrument and/or necessary for the generation of high-quality output experimental data from the instrument;
• General purpose equipment or an assortment of instruments to furnish a research facility and equipment for routine sustaining infrastructure (such as standard machine shop equipment, standard computer networks, autoclaves, hoods, and equipment to upgrade animal facilities).

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