January 30, 2013 (historical)

Fiscal Year 2012 Actual Obligations*

Budget Mechanism No. of Awards Amount
Research Grants
Research Project Grants (RPG):
Noncompeting 749 $266,259,000
Administrative Supplements (20) 1,019,000
Competing 234 74,158,000
     Subtotal 983 341,436,000
Small Business Innovation/Technology 32 13,261,000
     Subtotal, RPGs 1,015 354,697,000
Research Centers 42 41,562,000
Other Research:
Career Programs 154 19,330,000
Cooperative Clinical Research 0 0
Minority Biomedical Research Support 0 264,000
Other 25 3,045,000
     Subtotal 179 22,639,000
Total, Research Grants 1,236 418,898,000
Research Training FTTP
Individual National Research Service Awards 59 2,973,000
Institutional National Research Service Awards 237 12,112,000
     Subtotal 296 15,085,000
Research & Development Contracts 48 18,792,000
Intramural Research   54,413,000
Research Management and Support   28,012,000
Total, NIAMS   535,200,000
RPG Success Rate*   15.6%

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

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