NCI Grant Funding Payline Begins At 16th Percentile For FY2010

From The Cancer Letter, Dec. 11, 2009:

NCI’s grant funding payline will start at the 16th percentile for fiscal 2010, NCI Director John Niederhuber said earlier this week.

Eventually over the course of the fiscal year, through exceptions funding, Niederhuber said he hopes to be able to reach a 20 percent success rate overall for research project grants. This would be similar to the FY2009 level, without counting the 543 research project grants funded through the economic stimulus dollars the institute received under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act.

For the rest of the story, click on The Cancer Letter Archive at left to read the Dec. 11 issue (subscription or day pass required).

Also in this issue:

• House approves 2.8 percent increase to NCI budget.
• Annual Report finds declines in overall cancer rates.
• NCI awards large contract for Cancer Information Service to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
  

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