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Updated: 12/2/08


Information for Grantees

NIH "WELCOME WAGON" LETTER: Information for New Grantee Organizations

Information provided is primarily for officials of organizations planning to submit a grant or cooperative agreement (hereinafter referred to as grant) application or receiving an award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the first time. The intent is to highlight key requirements, provide referrals to important sources of information, and identify NIH, Public Health Service (PHS) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) offices that have responsibility for certain administrative functions. Information available through these resources is important to those having responsibility for the administrative and fiscal management of NIH grant awards. See full Welcome Wagon letter.

Supplemental Grants

Research Supplements to Promote Re-Entry into Biomedical and Behavioral Research Careers
Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research

NIH Funding Acknowledgement Requirement

Grantees are required to place an acknowledgement of NIH grant support and a disclaimer, as appropriate, on any publication written or published with such support and, if feasible, on any publication reporting the results of, or describing, a grant-supported activity. An acknowledgment shall be to the effect that:

"This publication was made possible by Grant Number ___ from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) or "the project described was supported by Grant Number ___ from the National Cancer Institute" and "Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health."

Grant recipients presenting NCI-sponsored research at scientific, professional, and consumer meetings are asked to acknowledge the publicly funded support they receive.

NIH Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research

Beginning May 2, 2005, NIH-funded investigators are requested to submit to the NIH National Library of Medicine's (NLM) PubMed Central (PMC) an electronic version of the author's final manuscript upon acceptance for publication, resulting from research supported, in whole or in part, with direct costs from NIH. The author's final manuscript is defined as the final version accepted for journal publication, and includes all modifications from the publishing peer review process.