Opportunities to Apply for Administrative Supplements

June 6, 2009

The NEI had been participating in two programs offering administrative supplements to existing NEI grants. Principle investigators were permitted to apply to either but not both of these programs.

NOT-EY-09-002 - Administrative supplements for infrastructure support

• Provides equipment, supplies, reagents or other infrastructure to support individual laboratories
• Short-term consultants or technical support to build or install new infrastructure
• Not intended for salary support for postdoctoral fellows or other research collaborators
• Parent grant must be R01 and have two years remaining at time of application
• Receipt deadline and earliest decision date is July 1, 2009
• Budget limit of $500,000 in direct costs
• Supplement activities and expenditures to be included in regular progress report
• Requests for large equipment that would normally be shared among laboratories should be directed to NCRR

Effective June 12, 2009, the NEI will no longer accept applications under NOT-OD-09-056

NOT-OD-09-056 - Administrative supplements for Recovery Act

• Equipment (limited to $100,000) and other research expenses
• Up to two-years salary support for research collaborators and technical personnel
• Additional personnel must be new hires in the spirit of Economic Stimulus Act
• A biosketch including employment history of new personnel must be provided at the time of application
• Parent grants must be active and includes those in a no-cost extension
• No deadline for submission
• Research must be completed and funds expended in the current competitive segment, which cannot be extended
• Cannot be used to extend grant or recover previous budget cuts
• No limit specified for total award; see announcement for guidelines
• Additional reporting requirements consistent with the Economic Stimulus Act

How to Apply for Administrative Supplements

The NEI strongly prefers electronic over paper applications for administrative supplements. The information requested in the published notices should be provided as a single PDF attachment in an email sent to the contact listed below. Hard copies of the application are not necessary.

Michael A. Steinmetz, PhD
Program Director
Division of Extramural Research
National Eye Institute
Suite 1300 / MSC 9300
5635 Fishers Lane
Bethesda, MD 20892-9300
For FedEx use: Rockville, MD 20852
Voice: 301-451-2020
Fax: 301-402-0528
Email: Michael.Steinmetz@nih.gov