Research Insights

The University of Georgia is no longer eligible for NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) Program R15 grants.

R15 funding is designed to strengthen the research environment of health-related schools or universities. To qualify, the applying unit must have less than a specified level of total NIH funding. In previous years, certain health sciences colleges at UGA were considered separate from UGA as a whole and thus judged to be eligible for R15 awards. NIH has determined that this will not be the case moving forward. Since UGA’s total NIH funding is well in excess of the cap, no UGA units are eligible to submit to the R15 funding opportunity.