The NIH restricts acceptable post-submission materials to those resulting from unforeseen administrative issues (with exceptions specified for institutional training mechanisms and certain funding opportunity announcements). Corrections of oversights/errors discovered after submission of the application are not allowed. The deadline for receipt of post-submission materials will be one month (30 calendar days) prior to the peer … Continue reading “What Post-submission Materials are Acceptable?”

A change of grantee organization may be accomplished under most NIH grants, including construction grants, if certain conditions are met. For details, please see the NIH Grants Policy Statement.

Unless specified in a particular announcement (RFA/PA), your transcript should not be included with the application. But you may be asked to send your transcript prior to award.

If you cannot see the status of your application in the eRA Commons, it may be due to one of these two reasons: Missing or invalid PD/PI eRA Commons User IDApplicants can easily overlook the “Credential, e.g., agency login” field in the “Profile – Project Director/Principal Investigator” section of the R&R Senior/Key Person Profile (Expanded) … Continue reading “I Submitted My Application to Grants.gov. Why Can't I See the Application Status in the eRA Commons?”

If your application had system-identified errors and did not make it through the eRA Commons application checking process (i.e., checking against NIH business rules), you must correct the errors and submit a changed/corrected application to Grants.gov before your application can be accepted by NIH for review. Follow these steps to submit a changed/corrected application to … Continue reading “How Do I Correct Errors During the Application Submission Process?”

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