Published on
Monday, September 3, 2012
Funding models: Drawing
the 'payline'
Research project grants from
NIH are the core funding mechanism for extramural biomedical research in the
U.S. The majority of these grants are devoted to investigator-initiated
applications; however, since 1997 between 9-18% of grants have been funded in
response to requests for applications (RFAs) issued by specific institutes.