From Scienceinsider:
The National Institutes of Health will dedicate most of its $8.2 billion for research from the economic stimulus bill to funding grant applications it has already received and to supplementing existing grants. A smaller amount, on the order of $100 million to $200 million, will go to new grant applications it receives in the coming months.
Also mentioned are a new set of targetted challenge grants which will be for as much as $500K for two years.
It suggests to me that NIH is managing the new dollars in anticipation that it’s overall base budget will not change so much going forward.
Jim
Discoverers and Discoveries 