Applying to one of NIH’s small business research programs? You now have a new application submission option. You can continue using downloadable forms from Grants.gov or using one of the system-to-system submission systems used in some institutions, or you can now use ASSIST, NIH’s online system for application preparation and submission.
ASSIST is a web-based system developed by NIH in close partnership with Grants.gov to address common application submission challenges. ASSIST has many great features that are unavailable in downloadable forms. Multiple users can collaborate on one application submission, and applications can be pre-populated with eRA Commons profile data. You can also preview and print your application and validate the application against NIH and Grants.gov business rules to check for errors before you submit your application. After you submit, ASSIST allows you to track your application’s submission status through both Grants.gov and eRA Commons as well.
You will see a new button that takes you to ASSIST has been added to all our published small business funding opportunity announcements.
ASSIST launched in 2012 for multi-project applications, and since then NIH expanded ASSIST as an optional method of application submission for most of the rest of our competing applications.
Read more about the small business programs using ASSIST in the September NIH Guide announcement (NOT-OD-15-156).
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