2023: A Year in Review
2023, what a year! We started it off with implementing the NIH Data Management and Sharing policy, a policy that reflected many thoughtful discussions with researchers, professional societies, and NIH staff over the last several years. The year was capped off with Dr. Monica Bertagnolli beginning her tenure as the next NIH Director. We look forward to supporting her vision for NIH.
Between those milestones, we announced that a simplified review framework for research project grants will take effect next January. We continued our focus on the future workforce, including those that support early-stage investigators, launc...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 16, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Administrative Burden Research integrity workforce Source Type: funding
New Year ’s Resolutions: NIH Funding Edition
New year, same list of resolutions as last year, right? Consider freshening them up with some suggestions from NIH staff.
Start the year with a plan. If your NIH-funded research generates scientific data, make sure you develop a data management and sharing plan, specifically.
Keep it simple. We’re taking this one to heart and working to simplify the peer review framework of research project grant applications and improve NRSA fellowship review in 2025. On a related note, make it easy on reviewers by making sure your application clearly responds to the review criteria found in the funding opportunity.
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Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 12, 2024 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Top Stories Source Type: funding
Webinar: Ring in 2024 with NIH Grants Policy Updates on Jan. 31
We’re kicking off 2024 with an opportunity to hear what’s new and in development within NIH programs and policies. Join NIH policy experts on January 31 from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET for the latest policy updates and how your institutions may be impacted. Make sure to register for the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Updates webinar.
Tune in for updates on policy requirements and examples of current issues at NIH! Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about new and existing policies during the live Q&A. (Source: NIH Extramural Nexus)
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 12, 2024 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Top Stories Grants policy Source Type: funding
Key Steps to Setting Up Your Subaward Agreement
Advancing scientific research and discovery often involves collaboration between various institutions, universities, and organizations. Subaward agreements are key to making this all happen.
Are you looking to collaborate with other organizations in your research? Here are three steps to start setting up your subaward agreement, which must be done in partnership between the prime and subrecipient:
The recipient must enter into a formal written agreement with each subrecipient
Agreement must address the negotiated arrangements for meeting the scientific, administrative, financial, and reporting requirements of the...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 11, 2024 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources Grants policy Source Type: funding
How Do I Find Who My Signing Officials Are at My Institution?
For most institutions, the signing official (SO) is in the Office of Sponsored Research or equivalent. If you already have an eRA Commons account, you can find the list of signing officials for your institution in the Institution Profile. You may need an SO for various reasons — to submit an application or a request for additional materials or a Just-in-Time material; to add a new role; to add delegations; to update your email address in Commons; to reaffiliate your account to a new institution if you move to another institution and more.
Log in to eRA Commons.
Navigate to the Institutional Profile module by click...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - January 9, 2024 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: You Ask, We Answer eRA Commons Source Type: funding
A Reminder: Commons ID Required for All on Senior/Key Person Profile (Expanded) Form, Effective Mid-January
In April 2021, NIH announced that all personnel listed on the R&R Senior/Key Person Profile (Expanded) Form must have an eRA Commons ID. Those who did not comply were given a warning.
Fast forward to now. Having given ample notice to the applicant and recipient community and seeing a high level of compliance, NIH will now update the warning to an error for non-compliance with this requirement in mid-January. Applicants will receive an error if the “Credential, e.g., agency field” is blank or does not contain a valid eRA Commons ID for all personnel on the form. That includes Senior/Key Personnel and Other Signif...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - December 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Top Stories applications eRA Commons Source Type: funding
NIH All About Grants Podcast: Ensuring Safe and Respectful Workplaces
Elyse Sullivan, Ph.D., NIH/OER Research Integrity Officer
Patricia Valdez, Ph.D., NIH/OER Chief Extramural Research Integrity Officer
Researchers deserve and should expect to work in places free from harassment, discrimination, and other forms of inappropriate behavior. This NIH All About Grants podcast episode explores how we at NIH aim to ensure a safe and respectful workplace wherever NIH-funded work is conducted. Drs. Patricia Valdez and Elyse Sullivan, Research Integrity Officers with the NIH Office of Extramural Research, explain more in this conversation. Our conversation covers NIH’s long-standing policies in...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - December 21, 2023 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources harassment podcast Source Type: funding
January 15 (Monday), 2024: NIH Closed for the Federal Holiday
NIH (including help desks) will be closed on Monday, January 15, 2024 for the federal holiday (Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.). 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 - December 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Calendar General Source Type: funding
Opportunity to Comment on the Draft Guidance Framework for Federal Agency Exercise of March-In Rights
We would like to make you aware of an opportunity to provide feedback on a draft guidance framework designed to help federal agencies evaluate when it may be appropriate to exercise “march-in” rights under the Bayh-Dole Act.
March-in refers to a federal agency’s right to march-in and require the contractor, an assignee, or exclusive licensee of a federally funded subject invention to grant a license to a responsible applicant or applicants, upon terms that are reasonable under the circumstances, and if the contractor, assignee, or exclusive licensee refuses such request, to grant a license itself. Currently, an ...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - December 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Top Stories Grants policy intellectual property Source Type: funding
Whistleblower Training for NIH Grant and Contract Recipients
Whistleblowers help the government recoup funds and prevent additional wrongdoing. The HHS Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) developed several video resources to help someone report wrongdoing related to a grant or contract, or even retaliation as a result of making such a report or filing a complaint:
HHS-OIG Whistleblower Training Video for NIH Grants and Contracts Recipients
5 Things to Know About Whistleblowers
If you have information about waste, fraud, abuse, misconduct, or whistleblower reprisal, please report it to the HHS-OIG Hotline.
To report NIH-related research misconduct,...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - December 7, 2023 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources Research integrity research misconduct Source Type: funding
January 1 (Monday), 2024: NIH Closed for the Federal Holiday
NIH (including help desks) will be closed on Monday, January 1, 2024 for the federal holiday (New Year’s Day). 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 - December 7, 2023 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Calendar General Source Type: funding
December 25 (Monday), 2023: NIH Closed for the Federal Holiday
NIH (including help desks) will be closed on Monday, December 25, 2023 for the federal holiday (Christmas Day). 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 - December 5, 2023 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Calendar General Source Type: funding
Webinar Recording Available: Implementation of Simplified Review Framework for Research Project Grants
In case you hadn’t heard, NIH is implementing a simplified review framework for the majority of research project grants with receipt dates of January 25, 2025 and beyond.
The simplified review framework is designed to better focus reviewers on answering key questions necessary to assess the scientific and technical merit of proposed research, help mitigate the effect of reputational bias on peer review, and reduce reviewer burden.
Over the course of the next year, we will be sharing plenty of resources with the extramural community to help guide them through this change.
For now, take som...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - December 5, 2023 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources Peer review Source Type: funding
Check Case Studies on Inclusion Across the Lifespan
As you plan your human subjects research, use the Inclusion Across the Lifespan Case Studies to help you determine if your proposed study population is appropriate. Following the Inclusion Across the Lifespan policy, NIH-supported research must include individuals of all ages unless there is a scientific or ethical reason not to include a specific age group.
The Case Studies summarize the scientific and ethical aspects of age-related inclusion in four fictional study scenarios. Consider Case #1:
Study summary: An investigator is planning a study analyzing stress and anxiety levels in children involved in care...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - December 4, 2023 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: New Resources human subjects Inclusion inclusion across the lifespan Source Type: funding
Allowable Costs to Improve Human Subjects Participation and Inclusion
Did you know that you can pay for childcare for your research participants while they are doing study activities? Find similar ideas to enhance your inclusion, recruitment, or retention of research participants in NIH’s new one-page tool: Allowable Costs Related to Participant Inclusion Activities on NIH Grants. The tool provides categorized examples of inclusion activities that typical NIH recipients could charge to their grants as allowable costs.
Consult with your recipient institution to confirm whether your planned inclusion activities will be feasible in your context and fit your institution’s policies, the no...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - December 4, 2023 Category: Research Authors: NIH Staff Tags: Tips Before You Submit human subjects Inclusion Source Type: funding
