When preparing an application with a detailed budget, requested salaries should be determined based on actual, institutional base salaries, and ….

If you are an investigator or research administrator new to human subjects research, NIH has published a flowchart to help you determine eligibility and agency contacts. Learn more about the application process at the Certificates of Confidentiality Kiosk on grants.nih.gov.

A Certificate of Confidentiality is a special privacy protection that can be issued by Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies to help researchers protect the privacy of people enrolled in biomedical, behavioral, clinical and other forms of sensitive health-related research ….

When citing your NIH grant in your research publications, include the activity code (eg., R01), and two-letter institute code (eg., GM) followed by the serial number (including any including any leading zeros), and leave out any separating spaces or dashes. So, a proper grant number citation would look like this: R01GM987654 Citing the grant number … Continue reading “How Should I Format an NIH Grant Number in my Publications?”

If you are submitting an application for the September 9, 2013 AIDS due date (Sept. 7 falls on a Saturday this year), you should use the B Series application form packages.

We’ve created a test environment so that applicants can try out the new multi-project electronic submission system, ASSIST. ….

Your PDF attachments need to be 8.5 inches by 11 inches, or smaller. If they are larger than this size, you will receive an error message. Please review our PDF guidelines for electronic applications for more information.

Here are some strategies awardee institutions are using to ensure compliance with the public access policy: reminding principal investigators (PIs) to compile their publication lists on My Bibliography for their Type 5 applications at least 3 months before they are due so they have time to fix any issues developing publication agreement addenda to ensure their … Continue reading “How Can My Institution Support Public Access Compliance and Prevent Delays in Funding Due to Public Access Issues?”

NIH gives each set of updated forms a version name for quick identification and easier communications (in the case of the upcoming transition, the version name is “FORMS-C”). When we post a funding opportunity and its application package on Grants.gov there is a “Competition ID” field that Federal agencies can use to provide further details about the funding … Continue reading “How Can I Tell If I Have the Right Application Form Version?”

For the activity codes transitioning to updated forms for deadlines on/after September 25, 2013, we will simply expire old application packages and post new ones to the existing Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs)  — so the FOA will not change, but applicants must use the application package with a Competition ID of “FORMS-C”. Planning is still … Continue reading “Will NIH be Reissuing Each FOA or Simply Posting a New Application Package to Incorporate Form Updates?”