The National Institutes of Health plans to issue $200 million in grants from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The new grants will serve large-scale research projects with the potential to drive investment and job creation in biomedical research and development, public health and health care delivery.
The NIH designed the Research and Research Infrastructure “Grand Opportunities” program to support initiatives that need only short-term funding. The agency said projects such as the identification of biomarkers in human genes and IT for radiological image-sharing are likely to receive funding.
