ICO Funding Policies and Considerations

NIH uses a unified funding strategy when making funding decisions. A set of core tenets provide a framework for all institute, center and office (ICO) funding policies to support the most meritorious science, address health priorities, and support a robust biomedical workforce.

Core Tenets

• Align with the NIH's mission
• Prioritize scientific merit; ICOs should consider peer review information in its entirety
• Integrate a breadth of topics and approaches relevant to the ICO’s priorities
• Consider investigator career stage and promote sustainability of the biomedical research workforce
• Promote broad distribution and geographic balance of funding, considering the total amount and type of NIH funding already available to each investigator
• Align with the availability of ICO funds

These ICO-specific funding policies and considerations pages build on the agency-wide framework.

• NIH Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® Initiative (BRAIN)
• Fogarty International Center (FIC)
• National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
• National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
• National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• National Eye Institute (NEI)
• National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
• National Institute on Aging (NIA)
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
• National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
• National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
• National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
• National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
• National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)
• Office of Disease Prevention (ODP)
• Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP)
• Office of Strategic Coordination (OSC)