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Opportunity Summary:

The Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (S10), listed as Funding Opportunity PAR 09 028, is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant program run through the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) to help research groups acquire major pieces of shared scientific equipment. The core idea is straightforward: when several NIH-supported investigators at an institution need access to the same high-end instrument, this program helps pay for the purchase of a new, commercially available instrument or the upgrade of an existing one. The program is aimed at equipment that is too expensive for a single lab to reasonably buy and maintain on its own, with a minimum instrument cost of $100,000 and an award cap (ceiling) of $500,000.

The types of equipment supported reflect common, high-impact platforms used across many areas of biomedical and behavioral research. Examples specifically highlighted include confocal microscopes and electron microscopes for advanced imaging, biomedical imaging systems more broadly, mass spectrometers for proteomics and metabolomics, DNA sequencers for genomics, biosensors, cell sorters for flow cytometry and related applications, X-ray diffraction systems for structural work, and NMR spectrometers. The list is not limited to those items, but the emphasis is clearly on expensive, widely shared instruments that can serve multiple NIH-funded projects and investigators, increasing the overall research capacity of an institution.

This opportunity uses the NIH S10 grant mechanism, which is specifically designed for shared instrumentation rather than funding a particular research project. In practical terms, that means proposals are expected to focus on the need for the instrument, the group of investigators who will use it, the scientific impact across their funded work, and the plans for operating and managing the instrument as a shared resource. The instrument must be commercially available, and the application is built around purchase or upgrade, not developing a new prototype device.

For the funding outlook described in the announcement, NCRR anticipated committing about $43 million in fiscal year 2010 to support roughly 125 new awards. Because instrument prices vary widely, award sizes were expected to vary as well, and the final number of funded projects and total dollars awarded would depend on the program’s available budget. The grant has no cost-sharing or matching requirement listed for this opportunity, which lowers a common barrier for institutions trying to bring in large equipment.

Eligible applicants include a range of nonprofit and higher-education organizations: public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and certain nonprofit organizations, including both those with and without 501(c)(3) status (as specified in the eligibility section). The opportunity is categorized as a discretionary grant and is associated with health and education activity areas. The CFDA number provided is 93.389 (National Center for Research Resources).

Key administrative details from the listing include a posted and creation date of November 14, 2008, with an original and current closing date of March 23, 2009, and an archive date of April 23, 2009. The estimated total funding is shown as $43,000,000 and the maximum award amount as $500,000. Additional official details were made available through the NIH grants guide page referenced in the announcement, and the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) webmaster contact is included for access or technical issues with the posting.

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