Office of Research

Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Limited Submissions

The Shared Instrument Grant (SIG) Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. The minimum award is $50,000. There is no maximum price requirement; however, the maximum award is $600,000. Types of instruments supported include, but are not limited to: X-ray diffractometers, mass and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, cell sorters, and biomedical imagers.

Application Instructions

An internal application process is required in order to verify that each equipment request from our institution is unique. Faculty who intend to submit an equipment request must email the following information:


- PI Name
- Instrument requested
- Total direct costs
- Short justification of what the instrument will be used for

- A list of potential users

 

to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday, March 22, 2017, and our office will provide justification if there are any duplicates. Our office will also supply “The Institution” letter of support which details the past five years’ worth of S-10 awarded instruments (see the RFA’s “Other Attachments” section).

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

PAR-18-600

Deadlines
03/22/2018 UW Internal Deadline Closed
05/23/2018 OSP Deadline
05/31/2018 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Funding amount

$600,000

Maximum Number of Applications

99 (Applicant organizations may submit more than one application, provided that each application is scientifically distinct. )

Eligible groups
  • All campus

Inquiries and Contact Information

Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.

For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.