Biomedical Research and Research Training

Examples of Funded Projects

NIGMS supports a wide array of grants supporting both research and training in areas described in paragraph 50. Examples of these grants are available in the Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (CRISP) database at http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/.

Program Accomplishments

In fiscal year 2006, the Institute's budget was $1.9 billion. The vast majority of this money goes to fund grants to scientists at universities, medical schools, hospitals, and research institutions throughout the country. At any given time, NIGMS supports approximately 4,400 research grants--about 10 percent of the grants funded by NIH as a whole. NIGMS also supports approximately 26 percent of the trainees who receive assistance from NIH.