Key Dates

Related Announcements

• March 22, 2023 - Instrumentation Grant Program for Resource-Limited Institutions (S10 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed). See PAR-23-138.

Issued by

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

Purpose

The purpose of this Notice is to clarify the institutional eligibility criteria in PAR-23-138 “Instrumentation Grant Program for Resource-Limited Institutions (S10 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)”.

Part 2. Section III.1. Eligible Applicants

Eligible Organizations

The NOFO currently reads: 

Applicant institutions eligible for funding through this NOFO must be domestic, located in the United States or its territories, and meet these criteria:

• at the time of application, have received less than $6 million dollars per year (total costs) from NIH Research Project Grants (RPGs) in each of the preceding three fiscal years, calculated using NIH RePORTER; and
• award undergraduate (B.S. or B.A.) and/or graduate degrees in biomedical sciences; and
• enroll at least 35% of undergraduate students supported by Pell grants (calculated as a yearly average from the past three academic years based on data available from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) database maintained by the National Center for Education Statistics); or belong to one of the following categories:
  • Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), (see 20 U.S.C. 1061(2))
  • Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), (i.e., institutions described in section 5(e) of Executive Order 14049)

The NOFO is modified to read (changes noted in bold italics): :

Applicant institutions eligible for funding through this NOFO must be domestic, located in the United States or its territories, and meet these criteria:

• at the time of application, have received less than $6 million dollars per year (total costs) from NIH Research Project Grants (RPGs) in each of the preceding three fiscal years, calculated using NIH RePORTER; and
• award undergraduate (B.S. or B.A.) and/or graduate degrees in biomedical sciences; and
• enroll at least 35% of undergraduate students supported by Pell grants (calculated as a yearly average from the past three academic years based on data available from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) database maintained by the National Center for Education Statistics); or belong to one of the following categories:
  • Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), (see 20 U.S.C. 1061(2))
  • Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), (i.e., institutions described in section 5(e) of Executive Order 14049)

IPEDS reports the percentage of students supported by Pell grants in two ways: (1) the percentage of all undergraduates enrolled and (2) the percentage of full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students. Institutions may use either option for determining their eligibility. No matter which category of IPEDS data is used, the institution’s Pell enrollment in that category must be at least a yearly average of 35% calculated from the three most recent years of reported data.

The application must be submitted by an eligible organization with a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) and a unique NIH eRA Institutional Profile File (IPF) number. For institutions with multiple campuses, eligibility can be considered for an individual campus (e.g., main, satellite, etc.) as the applicant organization only if a UEI and a unique NIH eRA IPF number are established for the individual campus. For institutions that use one UEI or NIH IPF number for multiple campuses, eligibility as the applicant organization is determined for the campuses together. 

All other aspects of this NOFO remain unchanged.

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

Dorothy Beckett, PhD
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Email: dorothy.beckett@nih.gov