NIH All About Grants Podcast: Allowable Costs for Clinical Research Participation

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.

NIH All About Grants Podcast – Simplified Review Framework

September 18, 2024

NIH is simplifying review for most research project grants starting on January 25, 2025. This NIH All About Grants podcast episode will discuss a few facets of Simplified Review Framework to keep in mind. we will hear directly from Drs. Stephanie Constant, NIH’s Review Policy Officer, and Lisa Steele, Chief of the Epidemiology and Population Health Branch within the NIH Center for Scientific Review.

NIH All About Grants Podcast – Considering Language Access for Participants in NIH-Supported Clinical Research

August 16, 2024

This episode of the NIH All About Grants podcast explores language access for participants in NIH supported clinical research. Ms. Melissa McGowan, the Deputy Director of the Office of Clinical Research within the National Institute on Aging’s Division of Extramural Activities, and Ms. Dawn Corbett, NIH’s Inclusion Policy Officer, explain how to consider language access when proposing research in a grant application.

NIH All About Grants Podcast: A Focus on Researchers With Disabilities

June 17, 2024

This NIH All About Grants podcast episode discusses particular challenges researchers with disabilities may experience and how NIH is working to address them. Drs. Alison Cernich, Deputy Director of the Eunice Kennedy-Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and Theresa Cruz, Director of the NICHD National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, join us for this conversation.

NIH All About Grants Podcast – Milestone-Driven Awards – A Go/No Go Proposition

May 28, 2024

Milestone-driven awards allow NIH to support riskier biomedical research projects. These awards have interim check-points (also referred to as “phases”) where progress towards achieving the objectives of the award are assessed. Dr. Craig Hopp, Deputy Director of the Division of Extramural Research within the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, joins us for this conversation on milestone-driven awards.

NIH All About Grants Podcast: Ins and Outs of Training Grants (miniseries)

February 26, 2024

Institutional training grants help prepare undergraduates, predoctoral students and postdoctoral scholars for careers in biomedical and behavioral research. Part 1 of this NIH All About Grants podcast miniseries dives into considerations for developing training grant applications and the review process, and part 2 focuses on post-award monitoring, mentorship, and provides insights for trainees.

What Early Career Researchers Should Know (Part 2) – Discovering Strengths to Advance Your Research Career

November 6, 2023

In this All About Grants podcast episode, we explore ways early career researchers can align and apply their strengths to advance their professional development. Dr. Marguerite Matthews, a program director and co-host of Building Up the Nerve with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and Dr. Ericka Boone, Director of the Division of Biomedical Research Workforce at the NIH Office of Extramural Research, join us in this conversation.

NIH All About Grants Podcast: Application Post-Submission Policy 

October 10, 2023

Dr. Stephanie Constant, NIH’s Review Policy Officer, joins us in this next episode of the NIH All About Grants podcast to talk about Post-Submission materials. She will tell us about the purpose of the policy, what “unforeseen events” can be added after submission (such as preliminary data in certain situations), what cannot (like preprints), logistics for providing them to NIH, how reviewers use this additional information, and who to contact.