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Presented to: UMass Amherst Research Council 18 November 2011 Prepared by: Jane Kent-Braun

Presented to: UMass Amherst Research Council 18 November 2011 Prepared by: Jane Kent-Braun Department of Kinesiology. NIH: “ How to Manage Science in Fiscally Challenging Times” ? October 2011. Blog: http://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2011/10/17/

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Presented to: UMass Amherst Research Council 18 November 2011 Prepared by: Jane Kent-Braun

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  1. Presented to: UMass Amherst Research Council 18 November 2011 Prepared by: Jane Kent-Braun Department of Kinesiology

  2. NIH: “How to Manage Science in Fiscally Challenging Times”?October 2011 • Blog: http://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2011/10/17/ • How to fund “outstanding biomedical research” • Options “… such as limiting the number of research program grant awards per investigator, the total amount of awards per investigator, the size of awards, or the amount of salary support paid by NIH.” • Soliciting input from scientific community (blog, email)

  3. NIH Grant Support by Type of Organization e.g., UMass Amherst medical schools

  4. Research GrantsFunding, by Mechanism (% total) ~74% RPGs ~13% Centers

  5. Applications, Awards, and Success Rates (RPGs) ~46,000+ applications success rate ~21% ~9,500 awards

  6. Projections Based on Possible Cuts to NIH RPG Budget 10% reduction: 12.3% success rate* 20% reduction: 4.1% success rate* (FY10 RPGs: 20.6% success rate) * Assumes no cuts to non-competing grants

  7. Current Management • Generally project based (RPG) • Competitive peer review “bottom-out” success rates • Average: $414K per year for 4.3 years • ~50 institutions get 70% of the funds • ~20% of PIs get 50% of the funds

  8. Possible Future Management Some Options: • Reduce or limit size of awards • Limit number of awards held by an PI • Limit amount of funds a PI can hold • Limit salaries of PIs From Blog: • decrease indirects • “graduated” funding (progressive cuts to additional projects)

  9. Option: Reduce Award Size FY 2010 Competing Awards: 9,287 total cost: $3.7M average cost: $401,860 average cost - $25k total savings: $232,175,000 Example of effect on number of Awards: 616 more awards success rate goes from 20.5% to 21.7% Alternative: distribute success rates across small ($250K), medium ($500K) and large ($1M) grants

  10. Option: Limit Number of Awards per PI Limiting awards to max. of 2 per PI: success rate goes from 20.6% to 22.4% (956 more awards) 1 2

  11. Research Council Feedback to NIH? • Suggestions? • Considerations? • impact of limiting size or number of awards? • impact of limiting indirect costs? • Timeline?

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