Figure 1. “Number of NIDDK competing R01 applications scoring within the top 50th percentile and number of NIDDK competing R01 applications funded in FY 2011.” This is a vertical bar chart whose x-axis is percentiles in increments of one from one to fifty. The y-axis is the number of applications and awards from zero to fifty in increments of five. There are two vertical bars for each percentile, one showing the number of applications and one showing the number of awards at that percentile. The bars show that nearly all applications that scored at or below the payline (the fifteenth percentile) received funding in fiscal 2011.
Figure 2. “NIDDK Competing R01 Application Funding Curves for FY 2006-2011”. This is a line graph whose x-axis shows percentiles from one to fifty in increments of five. The y-axis indicates the percentage of applications that were funded in fiscal years 2006 through 2011 and ranges from zero to one hundred percent in increments of twenty. For each of the fiscal years in the chart there is initially a flat or nearly flat line indicating that nearly one hundred percent of applications that scored below the payline for that fiscal year were funded. Then each line declines steeply around the payline value to zero percent at the upper ranges of the percentile range. Because paylines change each year the point on the line where percent funded values decline is different each year. (TERRA: should I include the actual paylines for each year in this description or is that little table below the figure sufficient?)
Figure 3. “Cumulative Percentage of R01 Awards Across Percentiles (FY 2006 – 2011).” This is a line chart whose x-axis shows percentiles in increments of two from one to forty-five. The y-axis shows the percent of the total number of R01 and R37 grants funded and ranges from zero to one hundred percent. There is a line for each of the six fiscal years that shows the cumulative percent of grants funded at each percentile point. Each line ascends from near zero at the first percentile to one hundred percent, approaching one hundred percent near the payline for that year. In each year there is some small percentage of grants funded that scored beyond the payline. The years with smaller paylines have steeper curves.
Figure 4. “Number of NIDDK R01 grants (competing and noncompeting) funded in FY 1997-2011.” This is a line chart whose x-axis shows fiscal years between 1997 and 2011 with increments of one year. The y-axis shows the number of awards and ranges from zero to twenty-five hundred (two thousand five hundred). There are five lines on the chart (from top to bottom): 1) “all funded—this line starts at about 1600 and rises slowly to about 2400 in 2005, then declines slightly to about 2300 in 2011; 2) “noncompeting”—this line follows the same general pattern as the “all funded” line but starts and about 1100 in 1997 and ends about 1700 in 2011; 3) “all competing”—this lines starts at 500 in 1997 and stays essentially flat through all fiscal years; 4) “new”—this line starts about 250 in 1997 and stays essentially flat up to 2011; and 5) “renewal”—this line overlaps extensively with the “new’ line.
Figure 5. “Number of competing NIDDK R01 applications (including revisions) received for funding consideration in FY 1998-2012.” This is a line chart whose x-axis shows fiscal years between 1998 and 2012 in increments of one year. The y-axis shows the number of R01 applications received; it ranges from zero to three thousand in increments of five hundred. There are three lines on the chart (from top to bottom): “Total”—this line starts at about 1600 in 1997, ascends to a peak of 2500 in 2006, declines to about 2200 in 2009, rises to about 2400 in 2010, and then declines again to 2200 in 2012; 2) “New”—this line shows a nearly identical pattern to line 1 but starts at about 1050 in 1997 and ends at about 1700 in 2012; and 3) “Renewal”—this line starts at about 500 in 1997 and stays nearly flat until 2012, although there is a small increase to about 700 during 2006-2009.
Figure 6. “Overall NIDDK expenditures (includes direct and indirect costs) on R01 awards (competing and non-competing) in FY 1995-2011”. This is a line chart whose x-axis shows fiscal years between 1995 and 2012 in increments of one year. The y-axis shows total awarded dollars from zero to one billion dollars in increments of one hundred million dollars. There is a single line on the chart, which starts just above three hundred million dollars in 1995, then rises steadily to about seven hundred fifty million dollars in 2005 where it stays almost flat until 2008. By 2010 it rises slightly to about eight hundred fifty million dollars but declines slightly in 2011.
Figure 7. “Median total costs (includes direct and indirect costs) of NIDDK R01 grants (competing and non-competing) in FY 1995-2011”. This is a line chart whose x-axis shows fiscal years between 1995 and 2011 in increments of one year. The y-axis displays dollar amounts ranging from zero to four hundred thousand dollars in increments of fifty thousand dollars. There is a single line on the chart. It starts in 1995 at about two hundred thousand dollars and rises steadily to just over three hundred thousand dollars in 2005. It is essentially flat until 2008 when it rises steadily to just under three hundred fifty thousand dollars in 2010. In 2011 there is a decline to about three hundred forty thousand dollars.
Figure 8. “NIDDK Extramural research funding by category (Competing and Non-Competing)”. This is a horizontal bar chart whose x-axis displays percentages from zero to a hundred in increments of twenty percentage points. The y-axis shows fiscal years ascending from the bottom, starting with 2003 and ending with 2011 in increments of one year. Each horizontal bar corresponds to a fiscal year and is split into the following categories in order from left to right: R01, Other R, Initiatives, Collaborate Grants, Centers, Career Development, Training, Other Research, and Contracts/Interagency Agreements. In general most categories represent the same proportion of the budget from year to year. However, contracts and interagency agreements increased from about one percent in 2003 to about six percent in 2008 and 2009. Since then the proportion of the budget devoted to these mechanisms has again declined to about two percent in 2011. Other R mechanisms showed an increase from about six percent in 2003 to about nine percent in 2006 and 2007 but have since declined back to about seven percent in 2011. Other mechanisms’ percentage of the funding budged remained fairly constant over this span of fiscal years:
Figure 9. “Maintaining a Stable Pool of NIDDK Investigators: Number of Investigators Supported by at Least one R01”. This is a vertical bar chart whose x-axis displays fiscal years from 2003 to 2011 in increments of one year. The y-axis displays counts of investigators from zero to 2500 in increments of five hundred. There is one vertical bar for each year. The number of principle investigators with an R01 stayed stable from 2003 to 2008 at just under two thousand and then increased to two thousand in 2011.
Figure 10. “Preserving a Stable Pool of New Investigators: Number of NIDDK New Investigator R01 Applications and Awards”. This is a vertical bar chart whose x-axis shows fiscal years between 2003 and 2011 in increments of one year. The y-axis displays numbers from zero to eight hundred in increments of one hundred. There are two vertical bars for each fiscal year, one of which shows new investigator R01 applications and the other of which shows new investigator R01 awards in that year. Each bar has a number over it with the specific number of applications and awards in that year. They are as follows: 2003: 610 applications, 118 awards; 2004: 678 applications, 114 awards; 2005: 717 applications, 109 awards; 2006: 700 applications, 86 awards; 2007: 684 applications, 111 awards; 2008: 672 applications, 120 awards; 2009: 664 applications, 103 awards; 2010: 694 applications, 118 awards; and 2011: 708 applications, 127 awards.
Figure 11. “NIDDK Human Subjects Research Funding as a Proportion of All Extramural Research Funding”. This a vertical bar chart whose x-axis shows fiscal years between 2003 and 2011 in increments of one year. The y-axis displays percentages from zero percent to fifty percent. There is one vertical bar for each fiscal year which displays the percent of the NIDDK extramural research budget that supports human subjects research. The percentage in each year has remained fairly stable, fluctuating between about forty-one percent in 2003 and forty-three percent in 2004.
Figure 12A. “NIDDK Fellowship (F), Career Development (K), and Training (T) Awards as a Percent of Total Research Funding”. This is a line chart whose x-axis displays fiscal years from 2003 to 2011 in one year increments. The y-axis shows percentages from zero to six percent. There are three lines on the chart, which display (from top to bottom): 1) K awards—in 2003 K awards were about four percent of the NIDDK’s total research funding; this increased steadily to about 5.2 percent in 2008 and stayed stable until 2010 when it declined to five percent; 2) T awards—T awards remained about 3.4 percent until 2010 when they decreased slightly to about 3.1 percent of the research budget; and 3) F awards—these have increased steadily from about .5 percent of the research budget in 2003 to just under one percent in 2011.
Figure 12B. “Number of NIDDK Fellowship (F), Career Development (K), and Training (T) Awards by Fiscal Year”. This is a line chart whose x-axis displays fiscal years from 2003 to 2011 in one year increments. The y-axis shows numbers from zero to seven hundred in increments of one hundred. There are three lines on the chart, which display (from top to bottom): 1) K awards—there were about four hundred ninety K awards in 2003; this number increased steadily to about six hundred in 2009 but then declined down to about five hundred in 2011; 2) T awards—there were about two hundred twenty T awards in 2003; this declined a small amount in 2005 but then increased back to about two hundred twenty and remained stable until 2011; 3) F awards—these have increased steadily from about one hundred thirty awards in 2003 about two hundred eighty in 2011.
Figure 12C. “Number of NIDDK Career Development (K) Awards by Activity and Fiscal Year”. This is a line chart whose x-axis displays fiscal years from 2003 through 2011 in increments of one year. The y-axis displays numbers of awards from zero to three hundred in increments of fifty. There are six lines, from top to bottom: 1) K08—this line starts at 240 in 2003 and generally declines to about 160 in 2011, with a couple of small peaks; 2) K01—this line starts at about 130 in 2003 and increases to about 180 in 2009; it then declines to 150 in 2011; 3) K23—this line starts at about 70 in 2003 and increases to about 130 in 2009; it remains stable through 2011; 4) K24—this line remains stable at around fifty applications for all years; 5) K25—this line remains stable at around ten applications for all years; and 6) K99—this line begins in 2007 (the first year of this program) and at around ten applications, rises slightly to about thirty applications between 2008 and 2009 and then declines to around twenty a
Figure 12D. “Number of NIDDK Training (T32) Award Slots by Fiscal Year”. This is a vertical bar chart whose x-axis displays fiscal years from 2003 to 2010 in increments of one year. The y-axis shows the number of T32 slots from zero to one thousand in increments of two hundred. There is one vertical bar for each fiscal year. Although there is slight variation among the fiscal years the number of T32 trainee slots has remained stable at about 900 per year.
