NIH Grant Support Index to Help Younger/Mid-Career Researchers
The increasingly competitive environment for National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funding is threatening the future of biomedical research and the careers of thousands of scientists. NIH is considering mechanisms that would reduce this environment, and provide stable and sustained support to younger and mid-career researchers.
As early as October 2017, NIH will use a “Grant Support Index” to limit the number of NIH-funded grants a single PI can hold. The Index is a modified grant counting system that does not use cost as a measurement, but does recognize differing levels of intellectual and leadership commitment of funded PIs.
Learn more about the NIH rationale for limiting researchers to three R01-equivalent grants, and how the index will be implemented at these pages: