“Eye on NIH Policy: OMB Uniform Guidance – What It Means for NIH & You”
Thursday, March 12, 2015
1:30-2:30pm ET
Learn more about recent and upcoming changes to NIH policy as a result of the publication of HHS’ regulations implementing OMB’s Uniform Guidance, and how it affects the grants process. ….
NCBI and the NIH Public Access Policy: PubMed Central Submissions, My NCBI, My Bibliography and SciENcv
Thursday, March 5, 2015
1:00pm to 2:00pm ET
New to using NIH systems for reporting compliance with the NIH public access policy? NIH’s National Center of Biomedical Informatics (NCBI), part of the NIH National Library of Medicine, is hosting a webinar to familiarize NIH awardees and their assistants with public access compliance reporting. ….
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As the April and June deadlines for fellowship (F) and career development (K) applications approach, we encourage you to get a jump start on helping your referees submit those reference letters through the eRA Commons. ….
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Last year we highlighted a new section of the NIH Data Book that provides statistics about peer review across NIH, including peer review organized by the Center of Scientific Review as well as peer review organized by NIH institutes and centers. Then, and now, these data truly demonstrate how you, our peer reviewers, are the lifeline of the scientific process. During 2014 nearly 24,000 reviewers participated in more than 2,500 peer review meetings to assess the scientific and technical merit of NIH applications, and many of those reviewers participated in multiple meetings. Your service to NIH expands our capacity to fund the best science, and provides an essential breadth of perspectives on the research projects and research training that NIH supports. In the lab and in the study section, we’re grateful for the myriad ways you work with us to advance human health and benefit the health of our nation, and the world. ….
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From enhancing diversity to supporting training in emerging fields, over the past three years NIH has continued to examine the needs of the biomedical workforce and create initiatives that will sustain the amazing work being performed by you, the extramural research community. Our efforts place a lot of focus on trainees and early stage investigators through policy changes and new programs, but there are two sides to every equation. We have many well-established research programs run by senior investigators. We want to explore how ….
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If you’re applying for an NIH Small Research Grant (R03) or Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21), 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. ….
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Grants.gov – the portal for grants submission across all Federal agencies, including NIH – is planning an upgrade to support the use of special characters, such as Greek symbols, in free-text fields such as project titles. To make this upgrade, Grants.gov will be down over the Presidents Day weekend from Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 12:01 AM ET to Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 6:00 AM ET. ….
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The latest release of Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) allows you to create a biosketch in the new NIH format and has addressed some of the issues users had been reporting. The SciENcv system allows you to enter or import your biographical data once, then convert it into a format that can be used when submitting NIH or NSF grant applications. The NIH National Library of Medicine recently published a technical bulletin to help ….
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The NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) recently posted and updated several resources to help the community understand more about the peer review process. Their CSR’s Insider’s Guide to Peer Review is now updated with new advice on how to produce a highly competitive grant application. ….
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NIH (including help desks) will be closed February 16 (Monday), 2015 (Presidents’ Day). There will also be scheduled downtime for Grants.gov over this holiday weekend, so please be sure to read NIH Guide Notices NOT-OD-15-057 and NOT-OD-15-058 for more information on the system upgrade and February due date adjustments.
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