November 30, 2015
On November 25, we issued and posted revised SF424 (R&R) application guides and supplemental instructions (NOT-OD-16-029). While we phase in new policies and application forms….
November 30, 2015
The National Institutes of Health is excited to announce that there will be two NIH Regional Seminars on Program Funding and Grants Administration in 2016! If you are new to the NIH grants process, then you will not want to miss attending one of these opportunities. …..
November 30, 2015
In 2014, the NIH announced that it was going to distribute the NIH postdoctoral benefits survey to collect information on benefits available to postdoctoral researchers at different institutions. The survey was launched in response to a report on the biomedical research workforce from an Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) working group. ….
November 27, 2015
NIH (including help desks) will be closed Friday, December 25, 2015 (Christmas Day). If a grant application due date falls on this federal holiday, the application deadline is automatically extended to the next business day.
November 24, 2015
HHS announced that the comment period for the Common Rule Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRN) has been extended to January 6, 2016 in response to a community request for more time to review the proposed rule.
November 24, 2015
You may be familiar with the top ten tips for smoothly getting your application through electronic application submission systems (if not, watch this video!). Are you familiar, however, with what NIH staff looks for in applications so that they can be sent to the NIH Center for Scientific Review division of receipt and referral?
The latest issue of eRA’s NIH eSubmission Items of Interest highlights some of the questions staff ask, before referring applications for processing. These include: ….
November 24, 2015
As part of a wider initiative to shape the future direction of research training for the biomedical workforce as a whole, we at the NIH are actively pursuing ways to examine the physician-scientist workforce and to optimize training for clinicians seeking research careers. Physician-scientists face some challenges and career transition pathways unique to being in a clinical career track, hence the need for a specific focus on this workforce.
November 19, 2015
Fellowship applicants can continue to download forms from Grants.gov and work on them offline, or use one of the system-to-system submission systems used by some research institutions, but now you can also use ASSIST, NIH’s online system for application preparation and submission of your fellowship application.
November 18, 2015
Three years ago, NIH created a program to enable extramural researchers to collaborate with our intramural scientists and use the exceptional resources of the NIH Clinical Center. Since then, 20 awards have been made to support projects of significant breadth, such as a trial for treatment of relapsed leukemia; a malaria vaccine trial; and a trial testing a new cardiac catheter. This is the fourth year that NIH has issued this funding opportunity. The December 15 pre-application deadline is approaching, and I wanted to remind you what this program offers. ….
November 16, 2015
NIH-supported scientists have made over 300,000 author manuscripts available on PubMedCentral (PMC) since 2008. Now, NIH is making these papers accessible to the public in a format that will allow robust text analyses. ….
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