Grant Application

Talk to a Program Officer

• Contact Staff for Help. Talk to a program officer about how your area of science fits NIAID's mission and opportunities. Also see NIAID Research by Topic.

Pick an Opportunity and Begin Planning

• Opportunities and Announcements
• NIH Guide
• NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal. Navigate through the world of grants from qualifying to staying funded. R01 focus.
  • Part 1. Qualifying for a Grant
  • Part 2. Game Plan
  • Part 3. Define Your Project
• All About Grants. More tutorials and application tools.

Write Your Application

• NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal
  • Part 4. Target Your Audience
  • Part 5. Research Plan
  • Part 6. Other Application Sections
• All About Grants
  • Annotated R01 Research Plan and Summary Statement. These samples may help you design your research plan and other sections.
  • NIAID R01 Application to Award Timeline

Apply

• NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal
  • Part 7. Applying. This section helps you decide when to submit a corrected application.
• See more in Useful Links on the right.

More NIAID Grant Portals

For more information, pick the appropriate topic from NIAID's main list of Grants portals by stage, audience, and science area.

Get More Details on Related Topics

• Standard Operating Procedures
  • Application section
    • Find Topics and Opportunities
    • Prepare Application
    • Applying and After
• Questions and Answers
  • Application section
    • Find Topics and Opportunities
    • Prepare Application
    • Applying and After

NIH Policy Portals

• Animals in Research
• Conflict of Interest
• Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS)
• Intellectual Property
• Multiple Principal Investigators
• Public Access
• Research Involving Human Subjects
• Sharing Policies and Related Guidance

Other Useful Links

• Electronic Submission
  • Electronic Application Process
  • Avoiding Common Errors
  • Finding Help
  • Listserv, Receive News
  • Parent Announcements for Investigator-Initiated Applications
  • Transition Timeline to electronic application and Adobe forms.
• eRA Commons
  • Help Desk
• Grants.gov
  • Customer Support
  • Download Software
• SF 424 Application Guides
• Standard NIH Submission Dates

Look It Up

• assistant role for eRA Commons
• authorized organizational representative
• Commons
• corrected application
• correction window
• eRA Commons
• initial peer review
• R01
• signing official
• summary statement
• validation
• viewing window

See the Glossary for more terms.