On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Among the goals of the Recovery Act are to preserve and create jobs, promote economic recovery, and provide investments to increase economic efficiency by spurring technological advances in science and health.
As part of the Recovery Act, NIH has received $10 billion to be used in Fiscal Years 2009 and 2010. NIDCD's portion of this is approximately $100 million. Already, NIH has released two funding opportunities through the Recovery Act, including:
- Challenge Grants to support research on topic areas that address specific scientific and health research challenges in biomedical and behavioral research that would benefit from significant 2-year jumpstart funds.
- Administrative Supplements to provide funds for up to two years of support, as funds allow. You must have an active (or be in a no-cost extension) R, P, U or K series grant award from NIDCD to a domestic institution.
NIDCD supports and conducts research and research training on the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language and provides health information, based upon scientific discovery, to the public. For more information about NIDCD programs, see the Web site at www.nidcd.nih.gov.
