OMB Expiration Dates on Application Forms To Be Updated Soon
Grants.gov and NIH are working hard to complete preparations for our transition to FORMS-H application packages. Although we’ll be all set well before our January 25, 2023 due dates, you may see some forms in FORMS-H application packages that still show old expiration dates. For example, the Research & Related or R&R forms managed by Grants.gov may still reflect a 12/31/2022 date although they were recently re-approved by the Office of Management and Budget for continued use. Also, the Public Health Services (PHS) application forms NIH updated to support the data sharing policy changes may still reflect the 09/30...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - December 13, 2022 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Top Stories application forms FORMS-H Source Type: funding
Check for Fit, Before You Submit!
It takes quite a bit of time to prepare and submit a grant application. Imagine spending that time only to find out later that you submitted to the wrong opportunity. Funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) contain a lot of information. Most applicants are very good at reading the FOA description to ensure a good topic fit, but let’s look at a few less obvious items that are often overlooked.
Does your application fit within the mission of one of the participating institutes or centers? If we can’t make an assignment, your application will be withdrawn.
Does your Type of Application (New, Resubmission, Revision, Rene...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - December 9, 2022 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Tips Before You Submit application submission Source Type: funding
Update on Simplifying Review Criteria: A Request for Information
Discussions are underway to incorporate consideration of a Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PEDP) and rigorous review of clinical trials RPGs (~10% of RPGs are clinical trials) within the proposed framework.
Simplified Review Criteria
NIH proposes to reorganize the five review criteria into three factors, with Factors 1 and 2 receiving a numerical score. Reviewers will be instructed to consider all three factors (Factors 1, 2 and 3) in arriving at their Overall Impact Score (scored 1-9), reflecting the overall scientific and technical merit of the application.
Factor 1: Importance of the Research (Significance, In...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - December 8, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Center for Scientific Review CSR Peer review Request For Information (RFI) Source Type: funding
EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (RII Track-2 FEC)
Letter of Intent Deadline Date: December 20, 2022 Program Guidelines: NSF 22-633The Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is designed to fulfill the mandate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to promote scientific progress nationwide. NSF EPSCoR eligibility is based on a jurisdiction's recent five-year history of total funds awarded by NSF relative to the Foundation's total research budget for that same period. The current table of eligible jurisdictions is available on the NSF EPSCoR website (see RII (Source: NSF Upcoming Due Dates)
Source: NSF Upcoming Due Dates - November 20, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: funding
HEAL Initiative Integrated Basic and Clinical Team-based Research in Pain(RM1 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-22-069 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is designed to support integrated efforts of three or more (up to six) PDs/PIs to pursue bold, impactful, and challenging research in basic and clinical pain domains to understand the biology of specific human pain conditions as well as pain associated with diverse diseases/disorders, including mechanistic underpinning of heterogeneity and stratification of patients with specific pain conditions and co-morbidities. The research approach should be interdisciplinary in nature, and the research teams a...
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - November 4, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Notice of Change to Award Budget for PHS 2022-02 Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH, CDC, and FDA for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Grant Applications
Notice NOT-OD-23-016 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - November 1, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding
FORMS-H: Instructions, Forms, and a Handy Checklist
Hopefully, you’ve seen our notices (NOT-OD-22-195, NOT-OD-23-012), tweets, and previous Nexus posts (FORMS-H Coming for January 2023 Due Dates, Gearing Up for Transition to FORMS-H Application Forms, data sharing posts, genomic data sharing posts) regarding our pending transition to an updated set of grant application forms we refer to as FORMS-H and the implementation of new Data Management and Sharing (DMS) requirements. If so, you already know that you must use FORMS-H forms for grant application due dates on or after January 25, 2023 and that our forms and instructions have been updated to support the new sharing ...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - October 31, 2022 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Top Stories application policy Data sharing FORMS-H Source Type: funding
Where Should My Data Management and Sharing Plan Be Included in My Application for Funding?
For applications being developed for due dates on/after January 25, 2023, Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Plans will be collected in a NEW field called “Other Plans” on the PHS 398 Research Plan and Career Development Award forms. See Writing a DMS Plan for the details on what to include in a Plan.
Note that any costs to support data management and sharing should be accounted for in either the R&R Detailed Budget Form or the PHS 398 Modular Budget Form along with a brief justification of those costs. See Budgeting for DMS and the Application Instructions for details. (Source: NIH Extramural Nexus)
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - October 28, 2022 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: You Ask, We Answer application policy Data sharing Source Type: funding
Data on Number of Research Project Grants per Principal Investigator
Earlier this year, we posted a blog about inequalities in Research Project Grant (RPG) support for extramural principal investigators (PIs). The blog was based on a paper we published in which we showed, among other things, that well-funded PIs not only were supported by more money but also by a larger number of distinct grants. Over 80% of the PIs in the top centile (top 1%) of funding were supported by two or more grants, compared to only 33% of the PIs in the bottom 99%.
Many comments to that post requested data on time-related trends of number of RPGs supporting individual PIs. Figure 1 shows exactly that. In Fiscal Ye...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - September 26, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Funding data grants RPG Source Type: funding
Notice of Budget Language Change in RFA-HL-23-015 "New Epidemiological Cohort Study among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AsA-NHPI): Clinical/Community Field Centers (UG3/UH3 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)"
Notice NOT-HL-22-047 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - September 19, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Notice of Budget Language Change in RFA-HL-23-016 "New Epidemiological Cohort Study among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AsA-NHPI): Coordinating Center (U24 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)"
Notice NOT-HL-22-044 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - September 19, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Notice of Correction to the Subaward Budget Amount for RFA-AG-23-027, Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) Coordinating Center (U24 Clinical Trial Optional)
Notice NOT-AG-22-027 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA))
Source: NIH Funding Opportunities (Notices, PA, RFA) - August 18, 2022 Category: Research Source Type: funding
Preliminary Data on Childcare Cost Support for National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellows
In April 2021, recognizing the high cost of childcare, NIH began allowing recipients of full-time National Research Service Awards (NRSA) fellowships to request support for childcare costs. Fellows could make these requests in new and continuation applications or as administrative supplements to existing awards. Each fellow is now eligible to receive up to $2,500 per budget period to defray childcare costs. Here, we share preliminary data on childcare cost requests and issuances.
NIH received 229 childcare requests in fiscal year (FY) 2021 and 357 requests in FY 2022 from NRSA fellows (Table 1). We issued 228 childcare cos...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - August 10, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike childcare cost Family Friendly fellowship NRSA Source Type: funding
Implementation Updates for the New NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy
Dr. Lyric Jorgenson, Acting Associate Director for Science Policy and Acting Director of the NIH Office of Science Policy
As we work towards the January 25, 2023 effective date of the new NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy, we continue to develop resources and implementation information to help the community prepare (see recently released NOT-OD-22-189). For some scientific communities, data sharing is already standard and things will largely be business as usual. For others, this policy may require some pretty big adjustments. We acknowledge that there will be a learning curve. We will be supporting you with add...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - August 5, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Data sharing genomic data sharing Source Type: funding
NIH All About Grants Podcast – Sex As a Biological Variable
Dr. Chyren Hunter, Associate Director for Basic and Translational Research,NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health
NIH expects that sex as a biological variable (SABV) will be factored into research designs, analyses, and reporting in pre-clinical and clinical studies. Accounting for SABV helps interpret and validate research findings, as well as enhances the rigor, reproducibility, and applicability of biomedical research. But how exactly do you account for SABV?
Dr. Chyren Hunter with the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health explains more in this NIH All About Grants podcast episode (MP3 / Transcript). She out...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - July 21, 2022 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources biological variables podcast rigor SABV Source Type: funding
