Budget Considerations Regional Centers of Excellence

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Budget ConsiderationsRegional Centers of
Excellence

• Pamela Fleming
• Deputy Chief, Grants Management Officer
• NIAID

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Regional Centers of Excellence(RCE)

• Plan to fund up to 2 RCEs
• 21 Million available for the entire program in
  FY 2005
• Letter of Intent due August 9, 2004
• Application Receipt Date September 9, 2004
• Earliest Possible Award Date April 2005

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Regional Centers of Excellence

• Application must Include
• Administrative Core
• Research Program min 5 Research Projects
• Scientific Facility Cores
• Developmental Research Plan
• Career Development Training Program min 2

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Page 4 398 Kit
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Page 5 398 Kit
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Research Projects

• A project may be similar in scope and design to
  an R01 application, or it may be more extensive
  and resemble a P01 and include more than one
  related research project with more than one
  investigator

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Research Projects R01

• If research project is R01 like must include
• - face page
• - PHS 398 Form Page 2
• An individual budget for the initial budget
  period (Page 4)
• A budget for the entire proposed period of
  support (Page 5)
• If project includes a consortium a separate PHS
  398 Face page, Page 4 and 5 for the consortium
  must be included.

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CONSORTIUM
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Research Projects P01

• If the research project is multi-component or
  P01 like
• Intro to entire multi-project
• A composite budget, including all budgets and
  budget justifications for the project use Form
  Pages 4 5, but only include by major budget
  category
• For each individual Subproject include
• Face pages PHS Form Page 2
• Budget pages PHS Form Pages 4 5

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Composite for P01 like
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Administrative Facilities Cores

• Each Core including the Administrative Core must
  submit detailed budget page (Pages 4 and 5)
• Administrative Core must include
• 25 effort of the RCEs Principal Investigator
• Support for travel to Bethesda for the annual
  meeting of the RCE/RBL.

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Developmental Research Plan

• Budget, using PHS Form Pages 4 5 (with amounts
  requested in other expense) no more than the cap
  of 600,000
• Detail how you plan to solicit and select
  developmental projects
• Remember no individual developmental project
  should exceed 100,000
• Funds are intended to remain flexible and support
  studies lasting no more than two years

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Career Development Projects

• Can compliment the 5 Research Projects does not
  have to be directly involved.
• May not include detailed budget information ,
  however should include Budget Pages 4 and 5 with
  at least an outline of projected costs by major
  budget category.

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Other Important Information

• No intramural NIH research can be supported on
  this project.
• Alterations and Renovations are allowable up to
  500,000 per project period.
• Any domestic organization can apply
• For-profit or non-profit
• Public or private research institutions,
  universities, colleges, hospitals or laboratories

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Assembly of Application

• Please carefully follow in assembly instructions
  outlined in the RFA
• Provide a face page for the overall RCE, as well
  as each, core, project, subject project,
  consortium partner, pilot project, etc.
• An RCE is a consortium of investigators at more
  than one institution working together, however,
  only one institution will be the grantee
  institution and all others participating will be
  considered consortium/subcontractors

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Composite Budget for the Entire Application
Except for the information that contradicts the
instuctions provided today use The Instructions
for Applications for Multi-project Awardat
http//www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/grants/multibron.htm
as guidance.