NIH paylines are the funding cutoff points for grant publications. Some institutes (e.g. NIAID) use both percentiles and overall impact score order (OIS) . The chart below illustrates the published paylines for the NIH institutes most awarded to UTMB investigators:
| NIAID |
R01 (new PI) |
16% |
| |
R01 (non-new PI) |
12% |
| |
R03 |
28 OIS |
| |
R21 |
28 OIS |
| NCI |
R01 (new PI)
|
14% |
| |
R01 (non-new PI) |
8% |
| |
R03 |
25 OIS |
| |
R21 |
7% |
| NHLBI |
R01 (new PI) |
26% |
| |
R01 (non-new PI) |
16% |
| |
R03/R21 |
N/A |
| NIA* |
R01 (new PI/ESI) |
23/25% |
| |
R01 (non-new PI) |
16% |
| |
R03/R21 |
25% |
| NIGMS |
No payline published per funding policies |
| NIDDK+ |
R01 (new PI) |
18% |
| |
R01 (non-new PI) |
13% |
| NIEHS |
No payline published per funding strategies |
| NIDA |
No payline published per funding strategy |
| NICHD |
No payline published per funding strategies |
* These paylines change based on grants => $500k
+ 2019 Paylines, not yet updated for 2020