Funding-Reminder - NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Program and Required Information for Letter of Institutional Commitment; February 11, 2013

The NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) supports the Shared Instrumentation Grant program for major research equipment costing between $100,000 and $600,000. ORIP intends to commit approximately $43 million in FY2014 to fund approximately 85 new awards. The NIH deadline is March 21, 2013.

Complete Program Announcement:  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-008.html

Management Plan:  The application must include a specific financial plan for long-term operation and maintenance of the instrument and details on how the costs to place the instrument in operational order as well as the maintenance, support personnel, and service costs associated with effective use of the instrument will be met.

Institutional Commitment: An appropriate level of institutional support to ensure associated infrastructure sustainment is required.  The application must describe the institutional infrastructure available to support the instrumentation and provide documentation (e.g., separate letters signed by appropriate institutional officials) specifically describing the required institutional commitment (in dollars) in support of the proposed financial plan.

Researchers interested in submitting a proposal to the Shared Instrumentation Grant program are asked to submit the following information electronically to the Office of the Vice President for Research at limitedsubmissions@uky.edu and a copy to their Associate Dean for Research by Monday, February 11, 2013:

· Name and department of PI

· Instrument requested and approximate cost

· Proposed user group (a minimum of 3 NIH-funded investigators are required)

· 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

· If instrument is not intended to be part of a recharge center, delineate the departmental/center/institute and college plans for instrument support in terms of personnel and service costs

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).