Office of Research

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

Limited Submissions

This opportunity is not limited in number, but there can be no duplication among the entries.

The objective of the Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program is to make available to institutions high-priced research instruments that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and that are needed for NIH-supported projects in basic, translational, or clinical biomedical and biobehavioral research. The SIG Program provides funds to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, state-of-the-art, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. An integrated instrumentation system is one in which the components, when used in conjunction with one another, perform a function that no single component can provide. The components must be dedicated to the system and not used independently.

Types of supported instruments include, but are not limited to: X-ray diffractometers, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, flow cytometers, high throughput robotic screening systems, and biomedical imagers. Applications for standalone computer systems (supercomputers, computer clusters and data storage systems) will only be considered if the system is solely dedicated to biomedical research.

All instruments, integrated systems, and computer systems must be dedicated to research only.

 

Application Instructions

Application Instructions

An internal application process is required 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 limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, March 19, 2025, preferably as a PDF.

Additionally, our office will provide the RFA-required table that includes information about the performance of all previous S10-awarded instruments within the past five years. See Other Attachments, II) Letters of Support.

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

PAR-24-265

Deadlines
03/19/2025 UW Internal Deadline Closed
05/21/2025 OSP Deadline
06/02/2025 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Funding amount

$750,000 (between $50,000 and $750,000)

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.