Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA - R15):Grant award stimulating research at health professional academic institutions with less than $3 million of NIH support in total costs in four or more of the last seven years. Go to AREA.

Account:As used by the NIH eRA Commons, a personal account an individual uses to log into the NIH eRA Commons which is identified by a unique combination of username and password.

Activity Codes:A 3-character code (e.g., R01, R43) used to identify areas of extramural research activity applied to various funding mechanisms.

Administrative Supplement:Funds added to a grant without peer review to pay for items within the scope of an award but unforeseen when a grant application was submitted.

Advisory Council:Chartered Institute advisory committee that performs the second level of peer review, makes funding and policy recommendations, and helps develop research initiatives. In the NCI, this council is called the National Cancer Advisory Board.

Alien Registration Receipt Card: Commonly known as "Green Card," shows a person's status as a permanent resident with a right to live and work permanently in the U.S. Also called Form I-551.

Amendment (Amended or Revised Application):Resubmission of an unfunded application that has been revised in response to a prior review.

American Indian or Alaska Native:A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North, Central, or South America and maintaining tribal affiliation or community.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA):The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed into law by President Obama on February 17th, 2009. The Act includes measures to modernize our nation's infrastructure, enhance energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need.

Animal Welfare Assurance:Document an institution and all performance sites involving animals in research must have on file with the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare before a PHS Agency may award a grant or contract.

Appeal:A procedure for contesting the peer review of a grant application (synonymous with rebuttal). Application: A request for financial support of a project/activity submitted to NIH on specified forms and in accordance with NIH instructions.

Application: A request for financial support of a project/activity submitted to NIH on specified forms and in accordance with NIH instructions.

Application Types:

Type 1	New
Type 2	Competing continuation (a.k.a. renewal, re-competing)
Type 3	Application for additional (supplemental) support
Type 4	Competing extension for an R37 award or first non competing year of a Fast Track SBIR/STTR award
Type 5	Non-competing continuation
Type 7	Change of grantee institution
Type 9	Change of NIH awarding Institute or Division (competing continuation)

Approved Budget:The financial expenditure plan for the grant-supported project or activity, including revisions approved by NIH as well as permissible revisions made by the grantee.

AREA:See Academic Research Enhancement Award.

ARRA:See American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Asian:A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Assistance:The award of money, property, or services to a recipient to accomplish a public purpose as authorized by Federal statute. Assistance relationships (e.g., grants) are expressed in less detail than are acquisition relationships (contracts), and responsibilities for ensuring performance rest largely with the recipient or are shared with the Government.

Authorized Organizational Representative:The individual authorized by the applicant organization to act for the applicant and to assume the obligations imposed by the Federal laws, regulations, requirements, and conditions that apply to grant applications or grant awards. This official is equivalent to the SO in NIH’s eRA Commons.

Awaiting Receipt of Application:An internal NIH document submitted to CSR by NCI staff to indicate willingness to accept an application (a) requesting $500,000 or more in direct costs in any year, or (b) for programmatic relevance.

Award:The provision of funds by NIH, based on an approved application and budget, to an organizational entity or a person to carry out an activity or project. This includes both direct and indirect costs (F & A) unless otherwise indicated.

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