Case Study in Research Integrity: You Can Disagree, Without Being Disagreeable
September 14, 2022
We are seeing a number of cases of uncivil behavior coming from individuals outside of NIH, directed at NIH staff.
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Announcing the 2023 NIH Loan Repayment Program Application Cycle and a New LRP Director
August 22, 2022
As we approach September, the next NIH Loan Repayment Program (LRP) application cycle is upon us.
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Preliminary Data on Childcare Cost Support for National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellows
August 10, 2022
In April 2021, recognizing the high cost of childcare, NIH began allowing recipients of full-time National Research Service Awards (NRSA) fellowships to request support for childcare costs.
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2022-2023 Virtual NIH Grants Conference and PreCon Events: New Name! New Approach! Deeper Dive!
August 8, 2022
If you have followed my blogs through the years, you know I am a huge fan of an NIH event focused on bringing the extramural research community together with NIH experts to share knowledge, perspectives, guidance, and resources on the NIH grants process and policies. This year, we thought participants would appreciate the opportunity to get the content over a longer period, allowing time for the information to digest. Register today!
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Implementation Updates for the New NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy
August 5, 2022
As we work towards the January 25, 2023 effective date of the new NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy, we continue to develop resources and implementation information to help the community prepare. We will be supporting you with additional resources and guidance through the change.
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More Early Stage Investigators Supported in FY 2021
July 18, 2022
Last summer, we reported that in fiscal year 2020 NIH supported 1,412 early-stage investigators (ESIs) as first-time Principal Investigators on R01-equivalent awards. This all-time high was seen after several years of steady growth in the number of ESIs supported since implementing NIH’s Next Generation Researchers Initiative five years ago. Today, we take a look specifically at how ESIs and other targeted groups fared last fiscal year.
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Introducing Ericka Boone, the New Director of the Biomedical Research Workforce Division
June 30, 2022
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ericka Boone as the new director of the Division of Biomedical Research Workforce (DBRW) in the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER), and I am thrilled she agreed to take on this role, given her background, interest, passions, and work ethic. Read on to learn more about Ericka.
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Inflation and NIH Research Project Grants
June 29, 2022
Here we discuss how inflation has been relevant to NIH Research Project Grants (RPG), the largest component of extramural NIH funding.
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Another Look at Applications Submitted During the Pandemic (Part 5): A Focus on Career Stage
June 28, 2022
In earlier posts, we looked at the distributions of gender and race of designated principal investigators (PIs) of R01 and RPG applications submitted before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we extend on our prior analyses by presenting R01-equivalent application data on PI characteristics of Early Stage Investigators (ESIs).
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Research Project Grant Funding Rates and Principal Investigator Race and Ethnicity
June 14, 2022
NIH has long collected self-designated demographic information on scientists designated as Principal Investigators (PIs) or Key Personnel and used this information to gain insights into the NIH-supported biomedical research workforce.
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