NCI Payline To Reach 25th Percentile For Portion Of Grants

From The Cancer Letter, April 24, 2009:

NCI will be able to increase its grant funding payline to the 16th percentile for regular research project grants, and well above that—up to the 25th percentile—for some grants funded with both economic stimulus dollars and appropriations, Institute Director John Niederhuber said earlier this week.

In remarks at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in Denver April 20,
Niederhuber said that with the new money, the institute has “developed a coordinated action plan to move cancer research forward in innovative ways.”

NCI received $4.97 billion for FY 2009 under the Omnibus Appropriation Act, a nearly 3 percent increase from its $4.83 billion budget last year. Also, NCI has $1.3 billion in new money that must be spent before Oct. 1, 2010, under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Further details of NCI funding plan and vision for the future in the April 24 issue (subscription or day pass required) from The Cancer Letter Archive at left.




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