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UAB S10 Shared Instrument Grant and High-End Instrument Grant Process

Last updated: 9:41am, Oct. 30, 2024

To assist UAB investigators in submitting competitive and successful NIH S10 Shared Instrumentation Grants (2025 PAR Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (SIG)) and High End Instrumentation (2025 PAR High-End Instrumentation Grant Program (HEI)) grants, a pre-submission and review process is being instituted for 2025. The goal is to assist investigators in proposal development as well as obtaining institutional support necessary for submission. The process will include a letter of intent followed by a merit-based assessment of each project. Both the SIG and HEI have a due date of June 2, 2025. The process is as follows:

ActivityDate
Submit Letter of Intent (see LOI criteria below): December 20, 2024
Results of LOI review: January 10, 2025
Selected Project PIs meet with IRCP Director: January 24, 2025
Acquire Letters of Support with commitment level: April 18, 2025
Full application review by Instrumentation Grant Panel: April 25, 2025
Final Sign Off: May 9, 2025

NIH S10 Program Website

Letter of Intent Components

(2 Pages + 1 Table)

  • Page One
    • Principal Investigator
    • Mechanism: Shared Instrument ($50K to $600K) OR High-End Instrument ($601K to $2M)
    • Application Title
    • Equipment make and model + cost estimate/vendor quote
    • Oversight Committee members proposed or actual. (Oversight committees are required for the S10 mechanism)
    • Summary of equipment need/Specific Aims
  • Page Two
    • Brief half-page Administrative Plan: in an existing core, department, center or stand-alone (RFA strongly recommends existing cores)
    • Brief half-page financial sustainability plan
  • Page Three
    Proposed Users Table including School/College, Department, and grants the instrument would support:
    User
    (Faculty Member)    		School / CollegeDept.Supported Grant (Award #)
           
           

The IRCP Director, Mike Bertram, (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Co-Director, Mark Bolding (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) will be available until the LOI deadline for consultation and assistance with LOI materials development.

LOI’s should be submitted to Mark Bolding (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by 5PM, December 20th, 2024.

The LOIs will be reviewed for merit by the Institutional Research Core Oversight Committee consisting of broad representation from across the UAB campus, VA Hospital and UWIRCs.

Selected projects will work with the IRCP director to identify and garner Letters of Support along with resource commitments.

Each application will be required to go through the CCTS facilitated Instrument Grant Panel by April 25th, 2025 before being submitted to OSP.