Update on Simplifying Review Criteria: Analysis of Comments from the Request for Information
This blog has been co-authored with Noni Byrnes, Director, Center for Scientific Review, NIH. Originally posted on the Review Matters blog.
Mike Lauer, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, NIH
Noni Byrnes, Ph.D., Director of NIH Center for Scientific Review
As discussed in the blog, “Update on Simplifying Review Criteria: A Request for Information (RFI),” NIH issued an RFI—from December 8, 2022, through March 10, 2023—seeking feedback on its proposed plan to revise and simplify the framework for the first level of the peer review of research project grant (RPG) applications.
NIH received more than 800...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - May 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Center for Scientific Review CSR Request For Information (RFI) RPG Source Type: funding
Check Out These Public Federal Funding Databases to Learn More About Funding at NIH and Other Federal Agencies
We often recommend NIH RePORT (Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools) site to applicants & awardees because it publicly provides reports, data, and analyses of NIH research activities, including information on NIH expenditures and the results of NIH-supported research. The RePORT suite includes:
NIH RePORTER (RePORT Expenditures and Results) allows users to search for funded projects, investigators, publications, and patents (see this NIH Open Mike blog for more). REPORTER also includes information on research projects funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, Agenc...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - May 9, 2023 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Tips Before You Submit Funding data Source Type: funding
Update on Improving Fellowship Review: A Request for Information
This blog has been co-authored with Noni Byrnes, Director, Center for Scientific Review, NIH. Originally posted on the Review Matters blog.
Mike Lauer, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, NIH
Noni Byrnes, Ph.D., Director of NIH Center for Scientific Review
NIH is recommending changes to the peer review of Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) fellowship applications by restructuring the review criteria and modifying some sections of the PHS Fellowship Supplemental Form that are specific to NRSAs. The goal of this effort is to facilitate the mission of NRSA fellowship peer review – to iden...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - April 25, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike fellowship NRSA request for information Request For Information (RFI) Review Source Type: funding
Navigating the NIH
Guest post by Chuck Dunn, Associate Director, Office of Communications and Outreach, NIH Center for Scientific Review, and Lamont Williams, Associate Director, Office of Communications and Outreach, NIH Center for Scientific Review. Originally posted on the Review Matters blog.
Lamont Williams, Associate Director, Office of Communications and Outreach
Chuck Dunn, Associate Director, Office of Communications and Outreach
NIH has a vested interest in receiving proposals from a wide range of investigators, from a wide range of applicant institutions. However, data on funding of research project grants (RPGs) and a rece...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - April 20, 2023 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: blog Open Mike applications Resources submission policy Source Type: funding
How Many Researchers: The FY 2022 Cumulative Investigator Rate
We are pleased to share our annual snapshot of how many researchers NIH supports. These fiscal year (FY) 2022 data are also available in the NIH Data Book (see report #303) and represent awards made with traditional and supplemental coronavirus appropriations. Please keep in mind that these data are distinct from success rates, however, which are application-based metrics (see this post).
Our cumulative investigator rate is an NIH-wide person-based metric. The metric is calculated as the number of unique principal investigators who were designated on an NIH research project grant (RPG), activity or mechanism, divided by...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - April 18, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike cumulative investigator rate Funding data funding rate Source Type: funding
New FY 2022 Categorical Spending Data Are Now Available
NIH recently updated its annual categorical information with fiscal year (FY) 2022 actual spending data and estimates for FY 2023 and 2024. Available on the Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) page, you will find the annual support level for various research, condition, and disease categories. The data are based on grants, contracts, and other funding mechanisms used across NIH.
There were 215 public categories when RCDC information began being reported in 2008. Now in our fifteenth year, there are a total of 315 categories. The following new categories were added in FY 2022:
Cocaine
PASC (Post-Acute Se...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - April 4, 2023 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources NIH budget RCDC Source Type: funding
ClinicalTrials.gov is Modernizing to Serve You Better
Anna M. Fine, PharmD, MS, Acting Director, ClinicalTrials.gov
Guest post by Anna M. Fine, PharmD, MS, Acting Director of ClinicalTrials.gov at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health. Originally posted on the Musings from the Mezzanine blog.
ClinicalTrials.gov is the world’s largest database of privately and publicly funded clinical trials. It provides easy access to clinical trial information for millions of users every month—from patients and their advocates to data submitters, data researchers, and the broader public. NLM is in the midst of a multi-year effort to modernize ClinicalTr...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 31, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Anna Fine Tags: blog Open Mike Clinical Trials Clinicaltrials.gov human subjects Source Type: funding
NIH Clinical Trials Reporting Compliance: A Shared Commitment
As the largest public funder of clinical trials in the United States, NIH is committed to the timely dissemination of clinical trial results information so that the benefits of the trial data can be realized. In support of this goal, in September 2016, NIH issued the NIH Policy on Dissemination of NIH-Funded Clinical Trial Information to establish our expectation that summary results of NIH-supported clinical trials be submitted to ClinicalTrials.gov for posting within 365 days of the actual primary completion date. This policy is complementary to a 2016 updated HHS regulation aimed at further increasing the availability o...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 24, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Clinical Trials Clinicaltrials.gov human subjects Source Type: funding
Trends in Extramural Research Integrity Allegations Received at NIH
At the start of the year, we briefly touched on our efforts to address research integrity violations in our 2022 Year In Review. Today we are sharing some more information on the overall trends in research integrity allegations associated with the NIH grants process. I want to note that while we are sharing these aggregate data, NIH does not discuss grants compliance reviews on specific funded awards, recipient institutions, or supported investigators, and whether such reviews occurred or are underway.
Table 1 shows the total number of new research integrity allegation types that NIH received between calendar years (CYs) 2...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Peer review Research integrity Source Type: funding
Learn About NIH ’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Strategic Plan for FY 2023 to 2027
We are pleased to announce that NIH recently released its Fiscal Years 2023-2027 NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA). We invite the research community to learn more about our efforts. You are encouraged to apply any of them to advance your organization’s DEIA goals too.
The plan articulates NIH’s overarching vision for embracing, strengthening, and integrating DEIA into our various activities. It aligns with the current NIH-Wide Strategic Plan and White House Executive Orders. The framework is organized around NIH’s accomplishments, needs, opportunities, and challenges i...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 20, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Diversity diversity equity inclusion and accessibility scientific workforce diversity strategic plan Source Type: funding
Mentored Career Development Application (K) Funding Rates by Race-Ethnicity FY 2010-FY 2022
Marie A. Bernard, M.D., Chief Officer forScientific Workforce Diversity
In this post, we analyze funding rates for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 to FY 2022 mentored career development award (K) applicants according to the race-ethnicity of designated Principal Investigators (PIs). Receipt of a career development award often presages R01 receipt. We used data from frozen, official, NIH success rate files. We focus on applicants for K01, K08, K23, K25,and K99 direct budget authority awards.
We obtained data on the race and ethnicity of PIs from their entries into the eRA Commons Personal Profile. As noted by NIH, PIs provide these d...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 16, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Diversity Funding data scientific workforce diversity Source Type: funding
Analyses of Demographic-Specific Funding Rates for Type 1 Research Project Grant and R01-Equivalent Applications
Marie A. Bernard, M.D., Chief Officer forScientific Workforce Diversity
In this post, we analyze funding rates for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 to FY 2022 Type 1 Research Project Grant (RPG) and Type 1 R01-Equivalent applicants according to the race-ethnicity of designated Principal Investigators (PIs). We used data from frozen, official, NIH success rate files.
We obtained data on the race and ethnicity of PIs from their entries into the eRA Commons Personal Profile. As noted by NIH, PIs provide these data on a strictly voluntary basis, and these data are not used for making funding decisions. If individuals described themselves...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 16, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Diversity Funding data scientific workforce diversity Source Type: funding
Referring Study Sections Is a Work of “ART” (Assisted Referral Tool)
Did you know there’s a tool to help you find relevant study sections for your grant application? The Assisted Referral Tool (ART) was developed by the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) to recommend potentially appropriate study sections using text from your application. Using these recommendations, you then have the opportunity to suggest the study section for the first level of scientific review of your application in the PHS Assignment Request form. In his blog post titled “Encouraging Use of the PHS Assignment Request Form in Applications,” the NIH Office of Extramural Research Director Dr. Mike Lauer discus...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 3, 2023 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Tips Before You Submit application forms Peer review Source Type: funding
Number of Postdoctoral Researchers Supported by NIH Grant Awards FY 2017-FY 2022
In this post we show the estimated number of postdoctoral researchers (“postdocs”) supported in recent years by NIH grants. We gathered these data in coordination with the Advisory Committee to the Director’s (ACD) Working Group on Re-envisioning NIH-Supported Postdoctoral Training.
NIH can support postdocs and graduate students through the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) program, which offers fellowship (“F”) and training (“T”) awards that are limited to United States citizens. However, most NIH support for postdocs and graduate students comes from non-NRSA research project and res...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - March 2, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Funding data postdocs Source Type: funding
