Special Announcement for all Pathology Faculty Members: NIH Challenge Grant Proposals

Important Announcement for all Department of Pathology Faculty

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act or ARRA) is a Federal public law passed by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on February 17, 2009. The Recovery Act makes supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.

As part of the Recovery Act, NIH has designated at least $200 million in FYs 2009 - 2010 for a new initiative called the NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research, to fund 200 or more grants, contingent upon the submission of a sufficient number of scientifically meritorious applications.

This new program will support research on Challenge Topics which address specific scientific and health research challenges in biomedical and behavioral research that will benefit from significant 2-year jumpstart funds. Challenge Areas, defined by the NIH, focus on specific knowledge gaps, scientific opportunities, new technologies, data generation, or research methods that would benefit from an influx of funds to quickly advance the area in significant ways. The research in these areas should have a high impact in biomedical or behavioral science and/or public health.

The Department of Pathology urges all faculty members to submit possible challenge grant proposals by the ARRA deadline of April 27, 2009. For more information see:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/challenge_award/

The Challenge Grant Applications Omnibus is available as a PDF:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/challenge_award/Omnibus.pdf

The NYU Langone Medical Center Office of Science and Research also has a page on their website devoted to up-to-date information on the stimulus (ARRA).