September 6, 2017

Fiscal Year 2016 Actual Obligations*

Budget Mechanism No. of Awards Amount
Research Grants
Research Project Grants (RPG):
Noncompeting 688 $247,063,147
Administrative Supplements (43) 3,114,022
Competing 251 88,771,455
      Subtotal 939 338,948,624
Small Business Innovation/Technology 34 15,578,780
      Subtotal, RPGs 973 354,527,404
Research Centers 41 45,603,642
Other Research:
Career Programs 142 20,569,762
Cooperative Clinical Research 0 0
Minority Biomedical Research Support 0 195,000
Other 31 2,869,000
      Subtotal 173 23,633,762
Total, Research Grants 1,187 423,764,808
Research Training FTTP
Individual National Research Service Awards 67 3,140,404
Institutional National Research Service Awards 227 12,709,301
      Subtotal 294 15,849,705
Research & Development Contracts 39 14,919,265
  FTEs
Intramural Research 129 56,268,304
Research Management and Support 98 30,072,111
Total, NIAMS 227 540,874,193
RPG Success Rate*   16.0%

*Success rate indicates the percentage of reviewed RPG applications that receive funding.

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