(FOA)-Shared Instrumentation for Animal Research (SIFAR) Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed); May 31, 2019

 

Agency

NIH

 

Description

The Shared Instrumentation for Animal Research (SIFAR) Grant Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-funded investigators to purchase or upgrade scientific instruments necessary to carry out animal experiments in all areas of biomedical research supported by the NIH. Applicants may request clusters of commercially available instruments configured as specialized integrated systems or as series of instruments to support a thematic well-defined area of research using animals or related materials. Priority will be given to uniquely configured systems to support innovative and potentially transformative investigations. This FOA supports requests for state-of-the art commercially available technologies needed for NIH-funded research using any vertebrate and invertebrate animal species and does not support requests for single instruments. At least one item of the requested instrumentation must cost at least $50,000, after all applicable discounts. No instrument in a cluster can cost less than $20,000, after all applicable discounts. There is no maximum price requirement; however, the maximum award is $750,000 of direct costs.

 

In addition, concurrent SIG, HEI, and/or SIFAR applications for the same instruments are generally not allowed. Thus, NIH requires the following in each application submitted: 

• Documentation from a high level institutional official stating that any applications to any of the three related S10 funding opportunities submitted for similar equipment are not an unintended duplication, but part of a campus-wide instrumentation plan,
• A table detailing the performance for all previous S10 awards to UK within the past five years as a part of the application (prepared by the Proposal Development Office),
• Any institutional financial commitments.

 

To facilitate campus-wide planning within the Office of the Vice President for Research and to ensure that these requirements are met for your grant application, please contact the Office of the Vice President for Research by April 23, 2019 at VPRGrants@uky.edu with the following information:

• Name and cost of instrument,
• Description of NIH user group,
• Proposed location housing the instrument, and
• Any request for VPR support.

 

Typically instruments that are housed in a centrally managed core fare better in review; thus, potential applicants are encouraged to contact any of UK’s core facility directors to discuss plans to submit for this program.

 

Activity Code

S10 Biomedical Research Support Shared Instrumentation Grants

 

Announcement Number

PAR-19-178

 

Closing Date

May 31, 2019

 

Link to Full Announcement

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-19-178.html

 

Companion Funding Opportunity

PAR-19-177, S10 High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (Clinical Trial Not Allowed) 

PAR-19-179, S10 BiShared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (Clinical Trial Not Allowed)