| The Fiscal Year 2007 budget request
for the NIGMS is $1,923,481,000, a decrease of $12,137,000 and 0.6
percent from the FY 2006 Appropriation. Included in the FY 2007
request is NIGMS’s support for the trans-NIH Roadmap initiatives,
estimated at 1.2 percent of the FY 2007 budget request. A full description
of this trans-NIH program may be found in the NIH Overview.
A five year history of FTEs and Funding Levels for NIGMS are shown
in the graphs below. Note that as the result of several administrative
restructurings in recent years, FTE data are non-comparable.
NIH’s highest priority is the funding of medical research
through research project grants (RPGs). Support for RPGs allows
NIH to sustain the scientific momentum of investigator-initiated
research while pursuing new research opportunities. We estimate
that the average cost of competing RPGs will be $325,000 in FY 2007.
While no inflationary increases are provided for direct recurring
costs in noncompeting RPGs, where the NIGMS has committed to a programmatic
increase for an award, such increases will be provided.
NIH must nurture a vibrant, creative research workforce, including
sufficient numbers of new investigators with new ideas and new skills.
In the FY 2007 budget request for NIGMS, $1.1 million will be used
to support 12 awards for the new K/R “Pathway to Independence”
program.
NIGMS will also support the Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative
(GEHI) to: 1) accelerate discovery of the major genetic factors
associated with diseases that have a substantial public health impact;
and 2) accelerate the development of innovative technologies and
tools to measure dietary intake, physical activity, and environmental
exposures, and to determine an individual’s biological response
to those influences. The FY 2007 request includes $3,228,000 to
support this project.
In the FY 2007 request, stipend levels for trainees supported through
the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards will remain
at the FY 2006 levels.
The FY 2007 request includes funding for 56 research centers, 331
other research grants, including 64 career awards, and 29 R&D
contracts. Intramural Research decreases by 0.5 percent. Research
Management and Support increases by 1.5 percent.
The mechanism distribution by dollars and percent change are displayed
below:
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