NIH Funding Projections Presidents FY05 Budget

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NIH Funding ProjectionsPresidents FY05 Budget

• Increase 2.7 to 28.804 billion
• Hold number of new grants steady
• Shrink spending increases in renewals to lower
  than inflation
• In FY05 NIH will offer 10,394 new competitive
  awards, same as FY03
• Same success rate, 27
• 150 million for biocontainment labs

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NSF Funding ProjectionsPresidents FY05 Budget

• Increase 3 to 5.745 billion
• Estimate grants awarded in FY04 - 6,217
• Estimate grants awarded in FY05 - 6,145
• Average grant size increase 3,000 to 142,000
• Increase graduate fellowships by 500 to 5,500 and
  maintain stipend at 30,000

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NSF Funding ProjectionsPresidents FY05 Budget

• Biocomplexity in the environment (100M)
• Human social dynamics (23M)
• Mathematical sciences (90M)
• Nanotechnology (up 20 to 305M)
• Workforce for the 21st century (20M new)
• Major research facilities (213M)
• Graduate fellowships (up 27M to 241M)

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NSF Funding ProjectionsPresidents FY05 Budget

• More STEM graduate training grant opportunities
  due to US future needs for scientists and
  engineers. (30K stipends)
• Increasing emphasis on diversity
• UG/GR students
• PhDs
• Faculty
• K-12 pipeline

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NSF Funding ProjectionsPresidents FY05 Budget

• More RFPs for centers (e.g., SLCs) and
  interdisciplinary projects.
• More emphasis on integration of research,
  education, ethics.
• IGERT more emphasis on integration of
  humanities/social science with STEM (ethics,
  teaching, economics, socio-econ policy,
  communication)

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Proposal Development Unit(PDU)

• Provide direct proposal development services
• Support Vice Provosts for International Affairs
  and Diversity and African-American Affairs
• Increase number 1 million proposals
• Increase NIH DHS proposal submissions
• Provide training for faculty and staff
• Provide information on funding opportunities
• Further refine limited submission process

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Provide Direct Proposal Development Services

• Provide services to PIs preparing large scale
  multidisciplinary proposals or graduate
  fellowship grants
• project facilitation
• proposal writing
• budgets cost sharing
• review editing
• administrative support
• Boilerplate (examples)

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Examples of Boilerplate Databased by PDU

• Graduate school enrollment data
• Diversity data
• National rankings data
• Evaluation plant templates
• Institutional commitment boilerplate
• Facilities and equipments lists
• History of faculty curriculum vitas

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Support Vice Provosts for International Affairs
and Diversity and African-American Affairs

• Provide proposal preparation
• project facilitation
• proposal writing
• budgets cost sharing
• review editing
• boilerplate
• administrative support

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Increase NIH DHS Funding

• Provide liaison advocacy between faculty and
  agency
• Facilitation coordination
• Identify match research areas to appropriate
  agency programs
• Re-direct existing programs to better correspond
  to agency thrusts
• Develop new multi-disciplinary research programs
• Assist in organizing proposal scientific goals,
  infrastructure facilities, requirements
• Training
• Support initial grant writing and assist in
  addressing concerns of reviews for re-application

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Provide Faculty Staff Training

• Center Proposals
• NIH, NSF, DoD budgeting
• NSF Fastlane
• Diversity plan
• New faculty orientation
• Finding grant opportunities

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Ongoing Refinements to Limited Submission Process

• Provide internal pre-proposal criteria
• Set-up internal review process composed of
  previous awardees those with expertise
• Provide review feedback to applicants
• Limited submission website improved
• New programs are being identified

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PDU Proposed Organizational Chart
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research
Development Steven Lommel
Program Assistant TBA
Research Resource Manager Carol Linelle
Ashcraft - Opportunity Searches - Limited
Submission Programs - Training
Director, Research Development Jaine Place -
Proposal Facilitation Writing - Training
Director, NIH DHS Program Development TBA -
NIH DHS Networking Proposal
Development - Research Development - Training
Proposal Developer TBA - Proposal Facilitation
Writing
Proposal Developer TBA - Diversity Programs -
International Programs - Graduate Training
Proposals
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PDU Fee Schedule

• Fee to serve as a form of screening
• Fee not to be full recovery
• Possible fee structures
• Fixed amount per request
• Sliding fee based on effort
• Fee based on of request amount
• Cost share with units/colleges