The Shared Instrument Grant (SIG) Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-priced, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated instrumentation system. The minimum award is $50,000. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $750,000. Instruments supported include, but are not limited to: light microscopes, biomedical imagers, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers, flow cytometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, and X-ray diffractometers.
Grantor contact
HHS-NIH11
Administering federal agency
Funding summary
93.242
Mental Health Research Grants
93.286
Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health
93.351
Research Infrastructure Programs
93.859
Biomedical Research and Research Training
93.866
Aging Research
93.867
Vision Research