Review Your Application for Required Elements

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Before sending us your application for a training grant, career development grant, or research supplement, ensure that you've included the following. If you're applying for a fellowship, see Writing a Fellowship Application.

• Front page of PHS 398.
• Budget page from PHS 398 for the first 12 months.
• Budget page for entire proposed period of support.
• Biosketch (as in an R01) -- Four pages is standard, though you may submit fewer. Regardless of length, biosketch must contain all three sections:
  • A. Position and Honors
  • B. Chronological List of Selected Peer-reviewed Publications (including in-press publications)
  • C. Research Support (during the last three years, both ongoing and completed).
    • Investigators sometimes omit section C. because they confuse it with the Other Support document, which they know they don't have to provide until later.
    • Section C. is important because it helps reviewers assess an applicant's experience in the proposed area of research.
    • It also enables them to determine whether the research is a continuation of past lines of inquiry or a new area -- the reason for including completed and current grants.
• Candidate's biosketch.
• Two- to four-page project description. For high school students and undergrads, two pages will suffice, but we require additional project details for graduate students and postdocs.
• One-page statement of the candidate's career goals.
• For reentry candidates, a one-page explanation of why the reentry supplement is needed.
• For students, a copy of their most recent transcript.

NIAID will not accept K-series applications proposing to conduct new, independent clinical trials. For more information, read the July 8, 2005, Guide notice.

If you're applying for a research supplement, you'll need to submit additional documentation. Read the Research Supplement program announcements for details.

If your research involves select agents, see the select agent terms of award on our Biodefense page.

If your research involves human subjects, see the NIAID Clinical Terms of Award.

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