March 20, 2025
NIH recently launched several enhancements to allow the public to more easily and quickly find funding information for various NIH research areas. The new look and feel of the NIH Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) Categorical Spending webpage adds to NIH’s long-standing efforts to enhance transparency and accountability into NIH funding decisions and the research areas NIH supports.
March 14, 2025
Do you want to learn more about how applications will be reviewed under the simplified review framework for most research project grants? Whether you’re a peer reviewer awaiting training or a researcher preparing an application, we invite you to review our reviewer guidance page for the simplified review framework.
March 5, 2025
The first step to NIH funding is closely reading your funding opportunity, which contains important information about eligibility, application submission, and review. Let’s take a guided tour of the structure of a typical NIH Notice of Funding Opportunity, or NOFO.
December 11, 2024
The holiday season is here, and so are new resources to help you unwrap the NIH grants process and submit your next application! Recordings, slides, and helpful links are available from our recent NIH Grants Process Primer: Application to Award webinars.
December 6, 2024
Similar to what NIH supported trainees and fellows must do, senior and key personnel designated on NIH grant applications will be required to have an ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identification) linked to their eRA Commons profile in May 2025. Dr. Bart Trawick, who leads the Customer Services Section within the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information, will tell us the benefits of growing ORCIDs in the scientific community in this episode.
November 21, 2024
Drs. Alison Gammie, Director for training and workforce development at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and Lystranne Maynard-Smith, a Scientific Review Officer with the Center for Scientific Review, will discuss fellowships in this episode of the NIH All About Grants podcast. They will explain how input was obtained from the research community over several years, what the changes are, considerations when putting an application together, approaching the science and training plans, mentors, resubmissions, and much more.
November 19, 2024
Is a graduate student or postdoc in your lab planning to apply for an NIH fellowship in 2025? We encourage sponsors on fellowship applications submitted on or after January 25, 2025 to review our fellowship sponsor guidance page.
November 18, 2024
Are you working on your fellowship or career development award application? Share the updated reference letter instructions with your referees!
October 31, 2024
As we welcome fall, it’s the perfect time to refresh your knowledge on NIH grants policy updates for this fiscal year! Our recent webinar event materials are now available.
October 25, 2024
In this episode of the NIH All About Grants podcast, Dr. Rebecca Favor, a senior inclusion specialist, and Mister Priyanga Tuovinen, a senior grants policy analyst, with NIH’s Office of Extramural Research will discuss allowable costs. They will explain what costs may be appropriate for clinical research, relationship to inclusion of research participants, developing budgets, unintended costs, carefully reading the funding opportunity, and much more.
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