NIH All About Grants Podcast: Ins and Outs of Training Grants (miniseries)
Dr. Maria Carranza, Senior Training Officer with the National Institute on Aging
Dr. Kenneth Gibbs, Chief of the Undergraduate and Predoctoral Cross-Disciplinary Training Branch at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
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 traine...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 26, 2024 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources mentorship trainees training grants workforce Source Type: funding
FY 2023 By the Numbers: Extramural Grant Investments in Research
We are back again to share our annual update on NIH application, award, and success rate data. Here we present our most recent information for fiscal year (FY) 2023 enacted appropriations. As a note, the NIH Data Book has other historical grants data and is being updated with more FY 2023 grants and application data. Similar to our FYs 2020, 2021, and 2022 posts, spending related to special appropriations for coronavirus are excluded here, but may be found using RePORTER’s advanced search capabilities.
We spent $34.9 billion of our total $47.7 billion appropriation in FY 2023 for competing and noncompeting grant a...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 21, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike awards grants Success Rate Source Type: funding
Unmasking Potential: Introducing New Beta Version Tool for Biomedical Dataset Discovery
Guest post by Dianne Babski, Director of the NLM User Services and Collections Division (USCD), and Peter Seibert, USCD Librarian. Originally posted on the NLM Musings from the Mezzanine blog.
Peter Seibert, Librarian, User Services and Collections Division, NLM
Dianne Babski, Director, User Services and Collections Division, NLM
In a world of rapidly changing digital expectations, new formats to access and store information, and a dynamic biomedical landscape, users want to connect to data across an abundant, widely available, and growing ecosystem of biomedical research with one click. That is the future we are w...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 16, 2024 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: blog Open Mike Data sharing Funding data Source Type: funding
You ’ll Love These Grants Policy Updates
In our 2024 NIH Grants Policy Updates webinar, compliance and system policy experts from the NIH Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration (OPERA) shared the latest policy updates and how your institutions may be impacted. Some highlights include a simplified peer review framework, updated guidance for subaward agreements, and common forms for biosketch and other support.
Learn more about what’s coming up in the next year in these areas:
Budget
Policy
System Process
Compliance Updates
Policy Reminders (Source: NIH Extramural Nexus)
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 14, 2024 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources Grants policy Source Type: funding
Salary Cap Guidance
While operating under a continuing resolution, all legislative mandates that were in effect in FY 2023 for NIH grant, cooperative agreements, and research and development contract awards remain in effect. This includes restricting direct salary support to the salary limitation set at Executive Level II of the federal pay scale.
The Office of Personnel Management recently released new salary levels for the Executive Pay Scale. Effective January 1, 2024, the salary limitation for Executive Level II is $221,900. For active awards, including awards that have been issued in FY 2024 (continuation and new) that were restricted...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 12, 2024 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Top Stories Budget Grants policy Source Type: funding
Search for Cooperative Agreements Now Available in RePORTER
Looking for information on cooperative agreements? RePORTER now offers this information through its advanced search.
Cooperative agreements differ from grants in that they involve substantial staff involvement from the federal awarding agency (indicated by a ‘U’ in the activity code or mechanism as in U01, U54).
STEPS
Click on the Advanced Search button on the RePORTER home screen.
On the Advanced Projects Search screen, go to the Project Details section.
Click on the grey bar below Cooperative Agreements to see the activity codes displayed in the dropdown menu. You can select individual Cooperative Agr...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 9, 2024 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources eRA Commons RePORTER Source Type: funding
NIH Director Statement on Catalyzing the Development of Novel Alternative Methods
This report, which the ACD enthusiastically endorsed and conveyed to the agency, recommended that NIH work with the community to:
Prioritize the development and use of combinatorial NAMs
Establish resources, infrastructure, and collaborations to promote the use of interoperable, reliable, and well curated/high quality datasets produced from research using NAMs
Promote effective dissemination and interconnection of NAM technologies
Invest in comprehensive training to bolster continuous advances in development and use of NAMs
Facilitate multidisciplinary teams with expertise across technologies and the lifecy...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 9, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Alternatives to Animals Animal Welfare rigor Source Type: funding
New Enhanced Look for eRA Commons Coming Soon
Hey, Commons users! Just a heads up that several Commons modules and screens will be moving to an improved visual appearance being adopted by all eRA modules. New screens will be rolled out during the next few months into spring including the Status screen for principal investigators, Personal Profile and more. See eRA Common: Improved Visual Appearance for a complete list.
What does that mean for you? The capabilities remain the same. However, there will be changes in the way users navigate to other modules, access action items, and export documents.
To familiarize yourself with the changes, see Basics and Navigatio...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 8, 2024 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources eRA Commons Source Type: funding
Increased Use of the Childcare Cost Support Policy by National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellows in FY 2023
Support for families at critical periods is a known reason why some researchers, especially female and underrepresented scientists, leave research careers (see these articles from Academic Medicine and FASEB). For this reason, NIH has developed and implemented family-friendly policies aimed at supporting early-career researchers. One of these policies provides up to $2,500 in childcare cost support to full-time National Research Service Award (NRSA) fellows and trainees. In 2022, we shared some preliminary data on how many NRSA fellows requested and were issued these awards. Today, we are pleased to update these data for i...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - February 6, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike childcare cost Family Friendly fellowship NRSA postdocs Source Type: funding
Do I Need to Authenticate Key Biological and/or Chemical Resources? If So, How?
NIH’s Rigor and Reproducibility FAQs have been updated with new questions and answers about authenticating key biological/chemical resources:
What kind of information should I include in the “Authentication of Key Biological and/or Chemical Resources” attachment?
Do I need to include an “Authentication of Key Biological and/or Chemical Resources” attachment?
Have more questions on this topic? Check out the Authentication of Key Biological/Chemical Resources section, or visit the complete set of Rigor and Reproducibility FAQs. (Source: NIH Extramural Nexus)
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 31, 2024 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: You Ask, We Answer Grants policy rigor Source Type: funding
Until Closeout Do Us Part
What do these three recent notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts have in common?
NOT-OD-24-055 – NIH Enforcement of Unilateral Closeout Reporting in the System for Award Management Responsibility/Qualification (formerly Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS)
NOT-OD-24-047 – Reminder for NIH Closeout Reporting Requirements and Closeout Email Notifications
NOT-OD-24-017 – NIH Will Send Reminder Notifications to Recipients with Final Federal Financial Reports (FFRs) in Rejected Status Beginning November 2023
They all relate to a grant re...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 30, 2024 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Top Stories Grants policy Source Type: funding
Carrying the Momentum from a Year of Open Science Forward in 2024
Guest post by Maryam Zaringhalam, PhD, Data Science and Open Science Officer for the NLM Office of Strategic Initiatives; Lisa Federer, PhD, Acting Director of NLM Office of Strategic Initiatives; and Martha Meacham, MA, MLIS, Project Director for NLM’s Network of the National Library of Medicine. Originally posted on the Musings from the Mezzanine blog.
Martha Meacham, MA, MLIS, Project Director for NLM’s Network of the National Library of Medicine
Lisa Federer, PhD, Acting Director of NLM Office of Strategic Initiatives
Maryam Zaringhalam, PhD, Data Science and Open Science Officer for the NLM Office of Strat...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 26, 2024 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: blog Open Mike common data elements Data sharing preprints Source Type: funding
February 19 (Monday), 2024: NIH Closed for the Federal Holiday
NIH (including help desks) will be closed on Monday, February 19, 2024 for the federal holiday (Washington’s Birthday). If a grant application due date falls on a federal holiday, the application deadline is automatically extended to the next business day. (Source: NIH Extramural Nexus)
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 18, 2024 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Calendar General Source Type: funding
Follow Friendly Formats for PDF Attachments
Your grant applications, just-in-time information, and progress reports must all include PDF file attachments. Learn how to make your attachments reader-friendly for both people and electronic systems.
NIH uses your attachments in different ways. Some are read as stand-alone documents. However, most attachments undergo eRA system processing before staff and others use the content. eRA often combines PDF attachments with additional forms and submission data to create consolidated applications or reports. Our systems also “read” PDF attachments and use text data mining for categorization, searches, and further analysi...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 18, 2024 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Tips Before You Submit applications Grants policy Source Type: funding
Learning More About NIH Research Directions and How You Can Provide Input: Highlighting Autoimmune Disease Research
Regular readers of this blog know that we often seek feedback on various grant policies and initiatives broadly effecting the extramural research community. As just a few examples from last year, we sought input on research misconduct regulations, care and use of laboratory cephalopods, foreign subaward agreements, postdoctoral training, and review of fellowship applications. There are also opportunities to weigh in on future directions for the many different disease-specific research areas NIH supports, which we typically do not discuss on this blog. Here, we wanted to briefly share some resources about these comment oppo...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 16, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike RePORT Request For Information (RFI) strategic plan Source Type: funding
