NIH Proposal Format Change

Curious about how the new peer review system at NIH is working out? Read writer Jef Askt’s post in The Scientist for an early evaluation. What do you think? What’s your experience? Bullet points: yay or nay?

In its February newsletter, the NIH sent a reminder to investigators that all competing applications, including resubmissions, must use the new forms and follow the new page limits. For resubmissions sent to the NIH after January 25, 2010, you will need to update your original application’s Research Plan into a 6- or 12-page Research Strategy. During the first few application rounds with shortened page limits, NIH expects resubmission applications to have extensive changes that will … Read More

Thursday, February 11, 2010, 12:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., Mac Hall 2201 Join us this month as we discuss the NIH’s new requirements for the responsible conduct of research. The new requirements affect many grants, including training grants, fellowships, career development awards, and research education grants. This session is open to all faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and research administrators. As many of you are aware, the NIH announced new requirements for the responsible conduct … Read More

As you are likely well aware by now, the NIH has announced profound changes to most applications, including shorter page lengths and a restructured format. As OHSU makes this transition, Research Development & Administration is providing a number of resources to help OHSU investigators. Research Funding & Development Services in the Office of the VP for Research is hosting bi-weekly workshops to help investigators navigate the new formatting requirements.  If you are interested in registering … Read More

The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) announced that they will adopt many, but not all, of the NIH’s guidelines for enhancing peer review, evaluation, and proposal format changes starting with submissions on or after January 25th, 2010. Read the full notice here. Basically, many of the same changes apply, except for one large difference: AHRQ will not implement the same page limit restrictions; they will maintain the page limits they currently use. Each … Read More

Now that many of the new parent announcement have been released or will be shortly, what’s next and what does it mean for you as an applicant at OHSU? Research Grants & Contracts (RGC), OHSU’s pre-award office, advises applicants to double-check to make sure you are getting guidelines from the most recent application package. For web-based submissions on or after January 25, 2010, the correct forms are ADOBE-FORMS-B.  Since these forms are typically filled out … Read More

The wait is over…the NIH started releasing the re-issued Parent Announcement with the associated updated forms, due on or after January 25th, 2010. The new funding announcements contain the correct links, updated peer review criteria, and forms.  The major parents announcements have been re-issued, including the Parent R01, and most of the Parent K-awards. The rest of the parent announcements, will be released according to the following timeline.  Read the full NIH notice here. How … Read More

As if the NIH proposal format change wasn’t enough all by itself, also beginning on January 25, major changes are coming to education requirements for the responsible conduct of research–and funding decisions will take these new requirements into account. You can see the notice, which was announced on November 24, here. There is a long history behind this notice, but basically, NIH is requiring that all institutions massively improve their formal, didactic training in this … Read More

Preparing and submitting an NIH grant this year will be a whole new experience. To help navigate this new territory, from January through May 2010, we will be hosting a series of bi-weekly workshops consisting of proposal review and interactive sessions addressing the new NIH formatting changes. These sessions are open information-sharing forums for investigators to ask questions, work on their proposals, and get feedback from their peers. We will also share what we are … Read More

If you missed November or December’s Funding Focus discussing the upcoming NIH Proposal Format Changes, you can access the handouts from each and a video of the November session right here. What: NIH Format Changes: Part II When: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Presenters: Research Grants & Contracts Handout What: NIH Format Changes: Part I When: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Presenters: Research Funding & Development Services … Read More