Posts Tagged ‘NIH applications’

Grants.gov has experienced a hardware failure during the night that has resulted in the entire system being down. As a result, you will be unable to submit applications to Grants.gov using InfoEd or Adobe today. This outage will also impact the XML checker in InfoEd. According to the NIH: Given that the service interruption occurred on today’s submission deadline for RFA-GM-11-004, NIH has extended the submission deadline for this opportunity by two days. The new submission … Read More

InfoEd has been upgraded to version 12.802.02, which means you can now use Proposal Development for your Grants.gov submissions. If you have already started an application using Adobe, you do not need to move everything into InfoEd, but please use InfoEd for your next application. Some of the changes you’ll see are a result of how the data requirements were changed by the federal government in their attempt to streamline and simplify. In addition, Research … Read More

Earlier today, NIH issued a notice (NOT-OD-10-128) to explain how the Vertebrate Animal Section (VAS) of a proposal can affect its overall impact score. Specifically, the notice states: “If the VAS is missing, the application may be deferred. If one or more of the the five required elements are not address, the application’s impact/priority score may be negatively affected.” The notice also differentiates the roles of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC) and NIH … Read More

The error correction window will be eliminated for all NIH, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) grants with deadlines on or after January 25, 2011, according to a notice  released on Thursday (NOT-OD-10-123).  Applicants will no longer have a grace period after the deadline passes to make changes to your proposal if the system rejects the application. Please be aware that OHSU is in the … Read More

Starting in the fall, NIH summary statements will now include a paragraph from the reviewer explaining the factors that informed the overall impact score. As stated in the August NIH Extramural News: Need help understanding your summary statement? Help is on the way. NIH will begin requiring reviewers to include a paragraph in their written critiques to explain the factors that informed his or her overall impact score. This change will provide applicants with greater … Read More

Sign up today for the NIH Proposal Format Change Workshop that’s taking place Friday, August 13, 2010 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm in MacKenzie Hall 2136. As you may be aware, the NIH implemented a host of changes for all grant applications submitted after January 25, 2010. The majority of the changes involve shorter page limits and other formatting differences. These sessions are open information-sharing forums for investigators to ask questions, get recommendations for … Read More

The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) has a funding opportunity for research instrumentation that has the potential to benefit a wide range of biomedical and clinical scientists: Instrumentation Development for Biomedical Applications (R21). Funded applicants can receive up to $125,000 per year for three years through this program. Examples of tools and techniques that might be responsive to this solicitation include: optical spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, electrophoresis and other separation techniques, microscopy, lasers and optics, … Read More

UPDATE: As previously posted, the NIH is changing its policy on post-submission application materials. The advance notice is now final (NOT-OD-10-115) and outlines the new policy, which is briefly described below. ***** The NIH released an advance notice that come September 25, 2010 applicants will no longer be able to submit updated application materials post-submission unless it falls under one of these categories: Revised budget page(s) (e.g., change in budget request due to new funding … Read More

Mark your calendars: July’s Funding Focus will take place at a special date and time: Wednesday, July 14, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. For this month’s workshop, we’ve invited OHSU faculty to be part of a forum discussion called NIH Peer Review – An Update from the Field. The forum will be open to all faculty, researchers, students, and research administrators at OHSU. We’ve spent months trying to anticipate the effects of the NIH format … Read More

On May 8, 2010, the NIH, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will return to the standard two-day error correction window for both electronic and paper grant applications. Back in January, the error correction window was temporarily extended to five days to ease the transition to new forms and page limits under the Enhancing Peer Review initiative (NOT-OD-10-042). Investigators … Read More