Key Dates

Related Announcements

• May 5, 2020 - NIH Research Project Grant (Parent R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed). See PA-20-185.
• May 5, 2020 - Research Project Grant (Parent R01 Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required). See PA-20-184.
• May 5, 2020 - Research Project Grant (Parent R01 Clinical Trial Required). See PA-20-183.

Issued by

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

Purpose

Background 

Due to the growing cost of individual grant applications and reduced use of the modular budget format, NINDS is faced with a challenging budgetary landscape. To maintain support for as many investigators as possible in this current environment requires careful management of research projects with large budgets.  Effective immediately, NINDS will establish a more stringent payline for all grants applications requesting $500,000 or more in direct costs in any year (excluding consortium F&A) submitted in response to Parent R01 Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) and their reissues. 

Policy 

Applicants requesting $500,000 or more in direct costs in any year (excluding consortium F&A) will be subject to a percentile payline equal to ½ (half) of the general NINDS payline for that council round; if the general payline is an odd number, this payline will be rounded down to the next integer (in FY24, the general payline is set at the 11th percentile and the $500K payline is set at the 5th percentile). This policy applies to all competing applications submitted to a Parent R01 NOFO without exception. 

This policy is effective immediately and applies to applications under consideration at the National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council (NANDSC) May 2024 and subsequent meetings.    

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

NINDS $500K Policy 
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) 
Email: NINDSDivisionofExtramuralActivities@NINDS.nih.gov