High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

The High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-end, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. The minimum award is $600,001. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $2,000,000. Instruments supported include, but are not limited to, biomedical imagers, high throughput robotic screening systems, X-ray diffractometers, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, and cell sorters.

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, April 1, 2021. Proposals are due to the sponsor 6/1/21, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs 5/21/21 if given the go-ahead by the review committee.

Additionally, our office will provide the following that the RFA requires as part of a letter of support:

The institution (i.e., the entity with the same DUNS number as the applicant’s institution) must also provide a table that includes information about performance of all previous S10-awarded instruments within the past five years; that is, FY 2016 - 2020. (If there have been no awards, please state so.) The table should have the following columns:

1) S10 Grant Number;
2) Year of Award;
3) Installation Date of the Instrument;
4) PD/PI's Name;
5) Generic Name of Instrument;