When to Share or When Not to Share, that is the Privacy Question

June 29, 2018

Looking for a grant award you heard about? Go here! Perhaps how many trainees NIH supported? You got it! Research spending on a certain disease? Done! Comparing NIH to another federal funder? Look no further! As you can see, NIH shares a quite diverse array of data associated with our funded grants in a transparent way. But, that does not mean we share everything.

Register Early & Save for Fall 2018 NIH Regional Seminar in San Francisco, CA

May 30, 2018

Could you benefit from learning more about applying to NIH and our policies, processes, and resources?  Do you know colleagues, whether they be faculty, research administrators or trainees at your institution who might also benefit?  If so, then spread the word about the NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration taking place in San Francisco, California – October 17 -19, 2018.  Register by June 22 and save while Early Registration rates are still available. 

More ASSISTance Options for Submitting Your Application to NIH

April 30, 2015

I’m excited to tell you about a new option for submitting your R01 applications to NIH. Today, we made ASSIST (the Application Submission System and Interface for Submission Tracking) available as an option for submitting your R01 applications, as well as most individual career development (K) award applications. ASSIST is a web-based system that was developed by NIH, in close partnership with Grants.gov, to address common application submission challenges identified by the community. We first launched ASSIST ….

Using eRA Commons to Improve Data on the Biomedical Research Workforce

August 2, 2013

In April I blogged about the various ways NIH is taking on the challenge of improving data on the biomedical research workforce, particularly those who receive training support from NIH. In 2009 we began requiring eRA Commons accounts for all postdocs listed in the grantees’ annual progress report and over the next year we’ll be extending this requirement to capture data on NIH-supported graduate students and undergraduate students as well.