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This timeline tells you what to expect for funding in fiscal year 2010. Other application types use different receipt dates; check NIH's Standard Due Dates for Competing Applications. For initiative receipt dates, see the funding opportunity announcement.

Application Steps

Date

Review Cycle 1
Review Cycle 2
Review Cycle 3

1. Prepare application. Get advice from NIAID's All About Grants and mentors.

Depends on grant type, investigator experience, other factors. Depends on grant type, investigator experience, other factors. Depends on grant type, investigator experience, other factors.
Submission
Review Cycle 1
Review Cycle 2
Review Cycle 3

2. Organization submits the application by the receipt date.

Leave enough time to make corrections.

The application goes to Grants.gov and then eRA Commons for validation.

New non-AIDS applications:
By February 5, 2009

All AIDS applications:
By May 7, 2009

Resubmissions,
non-AIDS:
By March 5, 2009

New non-AIDS applications:
By June 5, 2009

All AIDS applications:
By September 7, 2009

Resubmissions,
non-AIDS:
By July 6, 2009

New non-AIDS applications:
By October 5, 2009

All AIDS applications:
By January 7, 2010

Resubmissions,
non-AIDS:
By November 5, 2009

Review
Review Cycle 1
Review Cycle 2
Review Cycle 3

3. Assignment. Find the institute and integrated review group in Commons.

Within two weeks

Within two weeks

Within two weeks

4. NIH assigns applications to reviewers. May 2009 September 2009 January 2010

5. Applications undergo initial peer review. Find priority scores in the Commons five days after initial peer review.

Find summary statements six to eight weeks later, sooner for new investigators.

June or
July 2009

October or November 2009 February or
March 2010
After Review
Review Cycle 1
Review Cycle 2
Review Cycle 3

6. NIAID begins to fund applications that undergo expedited second-level review.

Starting in October 1, 2009* Starting in November 2009 Starting in March 2010

7. NIAID Council approves funding for selective pay and non-expedited applications.

September 15, 2009

January 26, 2010

May 18, 2010

8. NIAID funds selective pay and non-expedited awards.

These are the earliest project start dates. Some applications are deferred for possible funding later in the fiscal year.

December 2009 through end of fiscal year April 2010
through end of fiscal year
July 2010
through end of fiscal year
9. End of fiscal year. Fiscal year 2010 ends on September 30, 2010.

* For step 7, expedited review for cycle 1 occurs toward the end of the fiscal year; however, by law, NIAID cannot fund applications until the next fiscal year.

For more resources and advice, see the Application Tools for All About Grants.

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