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.

For technical issues E-mail OER Webmaster