Budget and pay lines update: 2023 coming into focus

As we settle into the new year, I’m pleased to have positive budget and pay line news to share. Last month, President Biden signed into law H.R.2617 , the Consolidated Appropriations Act,which provides full-year NIH funding through Sept. 30, 2023.

The law sets the total NIA budget allocation at more than $4.4 billion. Along with increases in our general allocations, it also designates a $151 million increase for NIA Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias research.

New pay lines posted

This good news has given us the opportunity to set some early and realistic pay lines . It also provides the flexibility to be more strategic with our planning for the rest of this fiscal year (FY).

Here are the latest pay lines, starting with NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR)- reviewed applications and followed by NIA-reviewed applications:

Budget, Paylines, and Funding Policy 2023-01-19T00:00:00Z

CSR-reviewed Research Applications (Percentile Based)
Applications	General pay line, < $500k	General pay line, ≥ $500k	AD/ADRD pay line
All (except below)	15%	12%	25%
New Investigator R01s	18%	15%	28%
Early-Stage Investigator R01s	20%	17%	30%

NIA-reviewed Research Applications (Overall Impact Score Based)
Applications	General pay line	AD/ADRD pay line
Program projects	15	30
Other NIA-reviewed research	15	30
Parent career development awards	21	35
Parent fellowship awards	30	40

Noncompeting grants will be paid at 100%. As we have in past years, NIA is reducing non-Alzheimer’s and related dementias FY 2023 competing awards by an average of 18%. For Alzheimer’s and related dementias research allocations, we will pay awards at their full study-section-recommended amounts unless there are concerns about overlap or study section recommendations that would require decreasing the amount.

Be sure to check our funding line policy webpage for full details, and keep an eye on that page for possible additional adjustments on these numbers before the end of FY 2023.

Keep in touch with your POs

NIA program officers are the best sources of information for inquiries about individual applications, so please email them if you have questions on the impact of these updates on your research plans.

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