National Institutes of Health Funding Gaps for Principal Investigators.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Early-stage and established investigators compete for a limited supply of funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Regardless of their previous funding success, many principal investigators (PIs) encounter a funding gap in which they no longer receive ongoing funding from the NIH.

Objective

To determine incidence rates of PI-level funding gaps, the mean funding gap length, and whether these 2 metrics are associated with previous funding success.

Design, setting, and participants

This study was conducted using data from NIH RePORTER. Historical datafiles for fiscal year (FY) 2011 to FY 2021 were aggregated to generate 2 master datafiles for this period: all NIH awards and only R01 awards. PIs with no funding in FY 2011 or FY 2021 were removed. PIs

SUBMITTER: Gillen KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10509726 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature