NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Programs (S10)
Harvard Statement of Intent Deadline: March 31, 2021
FAS/SEAS/OSP Deadline: May 22­­, 2021
Sponsor Deadline: June 1, 2021
Award Amount: $50,000-$2,000,000
Target Applicants: Groups of three or more PIs on active, distinct NIH research awards

The objective of the NIH S10 Instrumentation Grant Programs is to make available to institutions expensive 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 areas of biomedical/behavioral research. The program provides funds to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. The S10 programs include the Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (for direct costs $50,000-$600,000) and the High End Instrumentation Grant (HEI) Program (for direct costs $600,001-$2,000,000). There is a third S10 program, the Basic Instrumentation Program (BIG), which is targeted to institutions that receive lesser amounts of NIH funding per year compared with leading biomedical research institutions, and therefore Harvard will not be running an internal competition for the BIG opportunity.

While there is no restriction on the number of applications an institution can submit for the Shared Instrumentation and High End Instrumentation Programs, there are restrictions to applications submitted for similar equipment from the same institution. In order to determine if there are any overlapping requests within Harvard, potential applicants for all of the S10 programs are asked to submit a brief statement of intent to the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at vpr@harvard.edu no later than March 31, 2021.

The statement of intent should include the following:

• PI Name
• Instrumentation Program (Shared Instrumentation or High End Instrumentation)
• Brief description of the proposed instrument (one brief paragraph)
• Major user group (three or more investigators who are Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) on three distinct active NIH research grants)
• Proposed location of the instrument, if funded