Research Infrastructure in Minority Institutions (Rimi)

The summary for the Research Infrastructure in Minority Institutions (Rimi) grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the National Institutes of Health, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Research Infrastructure in Minority Institutions (Rimi): The Research Infrastructure in Minority Institutions (RIMI) Program focuses on building research capacity in predominantly minority-serving academic institutions that offer one or more baccalaureate and/or master's degrees in the life sciences and other areas related to health. The RIMI program seeks to facilitate the integration of teaching and research at predominantly minority-serving academic institutions with the ultimate aims of: 1) developing sustainable research programs, and 2) enhancing the overall quality of the educational experience for students in the life sciences and related areas. The intent of this RIMI research infrastructure grant program is to strengthen the research environment of predominantly minority-serving academic institutions through grant support to develop and/or expand existing capacities for institutional and/or individual faculty initiated basic, biomedical, social, and/or behavioral research programs. Applicants have the flexibility to consider for example, research efforts that address areas of disparities in healthcare among racial and ethnic minorities and the medically underserved that reside in the Southwest Border States; rural communities, such as the Appalachia Region, Mississippi Delta, and Frontier States; and urban centers of the Nation. More specifically, this RFA MD-04- 003 is intended to help non-research intensive minority-serving institutions, solidify and strengthen their infrastructure and capacity to conduct biomedical and behavioral science research. Thus, the overarching objectives for this RFA are to: o Establish a research program, with special emphasis on eliminating health disparities, that will strengthen an institution's basic science, biomedical, social, or behavioral research infrastructure and capabilities; o Enhance individual faculty members research training so that they can successfully compete for independent research funding, especially funding in areas that address health disparities; and o Encourage and facilitate research and mentoring interactions between the biomedical research faculty of grantee and mentoring institutions by establishing a partnership, using a mentoring/collaborative agreement model, with an institution(s) that grants doctoral degrees in public health, clinical services and the biomedical and/or behavioral sciences. It is expected that the use of a mentoring/collaborative agreement model will contribute to an increased enrollment of graduate students from the grantee institution into doctoral programs at the mentoring institution. When employing this type of research infrastructure strengthening approach, such collaborations must be clearly described, with measurable objectives and expected outcomes, and documented in the application.