Phoenix Children’s Research Institute at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix recently announced it has secured three grants from the National Institutes of Health that totaled nearly $9 million.
The grants, known as R01 grants and considered the most competitive federal research awards available, puts Phoenix Children’s on the same level as places such as Boston Children’s, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Cincinnati Children’s, local officials said in a release. About 20% of those who apply for these grants get funded.
“An R01 is an investigator-initiated research grant and one of the most prestigious and competitive grants offered by the National Institutes of Health,” said Dr. Vlad Kalinichenko, director of Phoenix Children’s Research Institute at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. “These are usually multi-year grants, funded in one-year installments.
