NCI Could Fund Some Challenge Grants That Miss NIH Funding, Director Says

From The Cancer Letter, June 26, 2009:

Cancer-related Challenge Grants that aren’t selected for stimulus funding by the NIH Director’s Office will get another shot at stimulus funding by NCI, Institute Director John Niederhuber said earlier this week.

NIH plans to use $200 million of the stimulus funds to support 200 of these grants at $1 million each over two years. If those numbers don’t change, the funding success rate would be one percent. NCI could use some of its $1.257 billion in stimulus funding to support Challenge Grants that don’t make the NIH cutoff, Niederhuber said.

“We will look at those and make choices about which ones will be funded using resources assigned to NCI,” he said in remarks to the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors June 22.

For further information on NCI's plans for use of stimulus funding, click on The Cancer Letter Archive at left to read the June 26 issue (subscription or day pass required). _____
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