The latest NIH All About Grants podcast is all about the Freedom of Information Act (also known as FOIA) as it pertains to the information maintained by the Office of Extramural Research (OER). ….

Proposing the use of animal models in your application? All About Grants has a new podcast episode on writing the vertebrate animal section in your grant or contract research proposal. ….

Looking for a one-page reference on NIH’s application changes to address scientific rigor and transparency? Check out this handy infographic developed by NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). ….

NIH now requires most research grant applications and most mentored career development award applications to address four areas related to scientific rigor and transparency. We’ve recently updated our frequently asked questions to address common queries ranging from ….

The All About Grants podcast has a brand new episode targeted to research administrators at NIH grantee organizations!

Interested in checking your application status on the go? We’ve got a URL for that! ….

If you are an NIH applicant or awardee, you likely use eRA Commons, your portal for interacting electronically with NIH. In addition to announcing major changes to electronic submission of grant applications here on the Extramural Nexus, we offer listservs targeted to issues related to electronic submission ….

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: ….

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. ….

All About Grants is back with a new podcast episode on certificates of confidentiality (CoCs). Dr. Ann Hardy, NIH’s human subjects research protection officer, talks about how CoCs can enhance your human subjects research, as well as protect and benefit research participants …..