National Institutes of Health: Awarding Process, Awarding Criteria, and Characteristics of Extramural Grants Made with Recovery Act Funding

Linda T. Kohn

янв. 2011 г. · DIANE Publishing

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This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. The Amer. Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 included $10.4 billion in funding for NIH. Of the NIH Recovery Act funding, $8.2 billion was to be used to support additional scientific research and $400 million for comparative effectiveness research, including extramural research at universities and research institutions. This report examined how NIH awarded Recovery Act funds for scientific research and the information that NIH made available about the award of these funds. It describes the: (1) process and criteria NIH used to award extramural grants using Recovery Act funding; and (2) characteristics of Recovery Act extramural grants and the information made publicly available about these grants. Illus.