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NIH Awards $165.5 Million To Institutions in 19 States

Friday, October 13, 2000

Last Friday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded 19 grants through the NIH Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Program to biomedical research institutions located in states that had not fully participated in NIH funding in the past. Created in 1993, the IDeA Program is designed to enhance biomedical research capacity building among academic institutions and research institutions within the eligible 23 states and Puerto Rico.

States eligible to apply for IDeA grants are those that received less than $70 million in NIH funding from 1994 to 1998 or had an NIH grant award success rate of less than 20 percent over that period. In 1998, investigators from the 23 eligible IDeA states and Puerto Rico accounted for only eight percent of the total number of research grant applications received by NIH.

Totaling approximately $165.5 million over five years, the new IDeA grants were made to:

  • University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
  • University of Delaware, Newark
  • University of Idaho, Moscow
  • University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc., Lawrence
  • University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington
  • University of Louisville, Kentucky
  • Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Portland
  • University of Montana, Missoula
  • University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  • University of Nevada, Reno
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City
  • Oklahoma University Health Science Center, Oklahoma City
  • University of Puerto Rico, San Juan
  • Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
  • University of South Dakota, Vermillion
  • University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, Burlington
  • West Virginia University, Morgantown
  • University of Wyoming, Laramie (2 grants)

Each new grantee institution will establish a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE), to be led by an established investigator who will direct a multidisciplinary effort to focus on a basic or clinical research theme, such as neuroscience, cancer, structural biology, immunology, or bioengineering.

For more information, visit the NCRR Web site: http://www.ncrr.nih.gov.