NCI is temporarily reducing its paylines as the federal government is being funded at FY2021 levels via another continuing resolution, delaying the budgeting process for most federal agencies in the new fiscal year.
The paylines for R01 grants for established and new investigators are being lowered from the 11th percentile to the 9th percentile. Also, non-competing grants are getting a 10% cut for as long as Congress remains in turmoil over FY22 funding priorities.
“This year, the first CR was funded through Dec. 3, and that CR is now expired,” NCI Director Ned Sharpless said at a joint advisory board meeting Dec. 8. “We are into a second CR that, as I said, goes through Feb. 18, that pretty much assures that we’ll have budgetary uncertainty for more than 100 hundred days this fiscal year and perhaps longer than that.
