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Standard Operating Procedure Table of Contents
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Purpose To allow the
NIH Center
for Scientific Review (CSR) to assign grant
applications to more than one IC for
funding consideration, based on the NIH referral guidelines.
Procedure
Dual assignments acknowledge shared interests of ICs in a scientific
area and inform appropriate ICs of the application.
Applications may receive primary and secondary assignments.
CSR assigns applications to ICs with programmatic interest in the proposed
research or training. The IC with the most relevant program is designated
primary; any others are secondary.
PIs can ask CSR for a dual assignment in their cover
letters.
Program
officers may also request a secondary assignment when 1) an application
is assigned to another IC but is of substantial interest to NIAID,
2) NIAID is considering funding, or 3) an applicant has requested it.
NIAID staff can request a secondary assignment to an application either
before or after initial
peer review but not after award. Alternatively, staff can request
deletion of a secondary assignment if the science is not relevant to
NIAID.
An application is given Council consideration
by both the primary and secondary ICs. If the primary does not intend
to make an award, the secondary has the opportunity to do so.
For funding implications and other information, see the Request
for Primary IC Assignment SOP.
Applicants
- In the application cover
letter, you can request secondary assignment of application to an IC.
- After application has been assigned to an IC, you can ask a program officer
to request a secondary assignment.
Program Officers
- To request the addition or deletion of NIAID as a secondary assignee,
send an email message to Contact for NIAID Staff in DEA with
the following information.(Do not send a Request for Assignment Change
-- Form 901.) Provide:
- Full grant number, e.g., 2R01AI12345-06A1.
- PI applicant's full name.
- If NIAID, as the secondary assignee, wishes to fund an application,
send a 901 Request
for Assignment Change to the NIAID referral liaison,Contact for NIAID Staff in DEA, who will forward it to CSR.
- If either an applicant or another IC requests a secondary
assignment to NIAID, it's a good idea to agree.
- If another IC wants to be listed as secondary, this is helpful in
case we cannot pay the application.
Division of Extramural Activities Staff
Contacts
Applicants with assignment or review questions should contact the Center for Scientific Review, or if the application will be reviewed at NIAID, contact the NIAID Scientific Review Program or the appropriate program officer. For more information, see Contact Staff for Help.
Contact for NIAID Staff
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Links
Co-Sponsorship of RFAs and PAs SOP
IMPAC
IMPAC
and CRISP SOP
NIAID
Funding Policy and Process SOP
Program
Assignment in NIAID SOP
Program
Assignment Change Requests in NIAID SOP
Request for Primary IC Assignment SOP
Changing the Locus of Peer Review SOP | 
