Funding-NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Program and
Required Information for Letter of Institutional Commitment; March 15, 2016
Please note the corrections from previous
announcement highlighted below in yellow.
The NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs
(ORIP) supports the Shared
Instrumentation Grant program for expensive, specialized instruments or
integrated systems that cost at least $50,000. Maximum award is $600,000. In FY
2017 ORIP intends to fund approximately 75
awards, corresponding to about $35 million. The NIH deadline is May 16, 2016.
Complete Program
Announcement: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-16-054.html
Specific requirements for this program include:
Financial Plan: The application must include
a specific financial plan for long-term operation and maintenance of the
instrument, with details on how various operational costs will be met. The
financial plan MUST include a table for year one of operation with dollars for
anticipated expenditures and anticipated income showing how these estimates
were derived. For Year 1 specific dollar amounts are required; for Years 2 -5
approximate dollars are recommended. Also required is a description of
projected changes to the financial plan over the subsequent four years for
operation, maintenance, supplies, anticipated income, and institutional
support.
Institutional Commitment and Letters of Support: The application must describe the institutional
infrastructure available to support the instrumentation, including space to house the instrument and site for sample
preparation, if needed, and confirm the institutional support toward
the maintenance and operation of the instrument. In particular, the institution
must commit to provide backup of the financial plan for five years from
installation of the equipment or for the effective lifetime of the instrument. Note that the NIH prefers locating the instruments in a centralized core
facility whenever possible
The Vice President for Research will provide the
institutional support letter for instruments that will be placed in a core
facility that is over-seen by the Office of the Vice President for Research.
Applications for instruments to be housed in college-level core facilities or
that will not be in core facilities will need to acquire institutional support
letters from the college dean, center/institute director and/or department
chair. The Vice President for Research will consider committing to partial
support of these instruments after an internal review for alignment with
institutional research and budgetary priorities. In all cases, the Office of the VPR will provide the table of all previous S10 awards
to UK within the past five years that is a required part of the application.
Researchers planning to submit a
proposal to the Shared Instrumentation Grant program for an instrument to be housed in
an existing VPR Core Facility should send the following material electronically, assembled into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President
for Research at limitedsubmissions@uky.edu and a copy to Alan Daugherty (adaugh@uky.edu),
Associate Vice President for Research by
March 15, 2016.
·
Name
of the PI and Core Facility
·
Instrument
requested and approximate cost
·
Proposed
user group (a minimum of 3 NIH-funded investigators is required)
·
A
description of the instrument capabilities/uses, and a one page narrative of
how the instrument addresses current institutional research priorities and will
extend UK’s capabilities to facilitate additional NIH-funded research
·
A
draft financial management plan for Year 1 and any projected changes for Years
2-5
Researchers planning to submit a
proposal to the Shared Instrumentation Grant program for an instrument NOT to be
housed in an existing VPR Core Facility are requested to inform the
Office of the Vice President for Research of their intent to submit and include
a description of the instrument and how the institutional financial commitment
will be handled. If partial support is requested from the Vice President for
Research, send the following material
electronically, assembled into a single
PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research at limitedsubmissions@uky.edu and a copy to their Associate Dean for Research by March 15, 2016.
·
Name
and department of PI
·
Instrument
requested and approximate cost
·
Proposed
user group (a minimum of 3 NIH-funded investigators is required)
·
A
description of the instrument capabilities/uses, and a one page narrative of
how the instrument addresses current institutional research priorities and will
extend UK’s capabilities to facilitate additional NIH-funded research
·
A
draft financial management plan for Year 1 and any projected changes for Years
2-5
·
If
the instrument is intended to be part of an existing service core (recharge
center), identify which one; if a new recharge center is being proposed,
provide proposed name and location and include a letter of support from the
relevant Dean that includes the commitment to provide financial back-up for the
proposed financial plan if it should fall short of the projected income.
Describe the request for VPR support.
·
If
the instrument is not intended to be part of a service core, delineate the
department/center/institute and college plans for instrument support in terms
of personnel and service costs and include a letter of support from the
relevant Dean that includes the commitment to provide financial back-up to
ensure operation and maintenance of the instrument. Describe the request for
VPR support.
Questions
about the submission process may be sent to Ms.
Annette Evans in the Office of the Vice President for Research (alevan4@email.uky.edu
or 257-1663). To identify potential NIH-funded investigators,
researchers may contact the Proposal Development Office (PDO@uky.edu) or
search SPIFi, the database of UK funded projects (http://www.research.uky.edu/ospa/info/spifi.html).