Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Funding Agency:
- National Institutes of Health
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to continue the Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program administered by ORIP. The objective of the Program is to make available to institutions high-priced research instruments that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and that are needed for NIH-supported projects in basic, translational, or clinical biomedical and biobehavioral research. The SIG Program provides funds to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, state-of-the-art, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. An integrated instrumentation system is one in which the components, when used in conjunction with one another, perform a function that no single component can provide. The components must be dedicated to the system and not used independently.
Types of supported instruments include, but are not limited to: X-ray diffractometers, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, flow cytometers, high throughput robotic screening systems, and biomedical imagers. Applications for standalone computer systems (supercomputers, computer clusters and data storage systems) will only be considered if the system is solely dedicated to biomedical research.
All instruments, integrated systems, and computer systems must be dedicated to research only.
Foreign-made instruments are allowed.
The SIG Program will not support requests for:
- An instrument with a base cost of less than $50,000;
- Multiple instruments bundled together;
- Purely instructional equipment;
- Instruments used for clinical (billable) care;
- Instruments or integrated systems that are not commercially available and do not have a manufacturer warranty
- Institutional administrative management systems, clinical management systems;
- Software, unless it is integrated in the operation of the instrument and/or necessary for generation of high-quality experimental data from the instrument;
- Multiple stand-alone workstations for data processing, software licenses, and duplicate software items;
- General purpose equipment (such as standard machine shop equipment), instruments to furnish a research facility (such as autoclaves, hoods, equipment to upgrade animal facilities), equipment for routine sustaining infrastructure (such as standard computer networks or data storage systems);
- Disposable devices, office furniture, and supplies;
- Alteration or renovation of space to house the instruments.
Applications will be accepted that request a single, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. The minimum award is $50,000. There is no upper limit on the cost of the instrument, but the maximum award is $600,000.
June 01, 2022
Guanghu (Jeff) Wang, PhD, Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP), Telephone: 301-435-0772, Email:SIG@mail.nih.gov