Latest Funding Updates

New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• Updated When will NIAID start issuing ARRA awards? on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators to note that we have started funding applications.

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Updated R&D Contracts pages:

• New Proposal Intent Response Sheet in PDF and MS Word formats
• Deleted outdated items from Forms and Attachments
• Revisions throughout About NIAID Research and Development Contracts
• Revisions throughout Mission Statement

New Special Announcements:

• Delays in Grant Application Submission Due to Closure of Institutions because of 2009 H1N1 Flu Concerns
• Extended Error Correction Window for Electronic Submission of NIH Challenge Grants and Funding Opportunities with Submission Deadlines From April 27 Through May 1, 2009
• Recovery Act Grand Opportunities GO Grant Submission Deadline Moved to May 29, 2009.

New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• Updated Opportunities for NIAID Applicants, Grand Opportunities Topics for NIAID, and NIAID Participation in NIH ARRA Opportunities with new May 29, 2009, deadline for GO grants.

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New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• Updated Deadlines by Funding Year on Details on NIAID's ARRA Administrative Supplements to clarify deadlines and advise applicants that it is unlikely we will have money left for FY 2009 supplements the closer we get to the FY 2009 deadline of July 17.

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New NIH Funding Opportunity Relevant to NIAID:

• RFP-NIAID-DMID-NIHAI2009052, Clinical Research Operations and Management Support
• PA-09-179, Development of In-Vitro Assays to Assess the Potency of Botulinum Neurotoxin Type A.

New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• New information on how to apply for administrative supplements and renamed "Application Submission Instructions" to Application Instructions on Details on NIAID's ARRA Administrative Supplements.

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New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• New Grand Opportunities Topics for NIAID page with information on GO grants.
• New questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:
  • If I submit my supplement application for the July 17, 2009, due date, what start and end dates should I use?
  • Is NIAID awarding ARRA supplements for career reentry R01s?
  • What is the page limit for requesting a supplement?
  • Can I get more than one supplement for a grant?
  • If I get an ARRA R01, can I apply for a diversity supplement?
  • If I get a two-year R01, will I be able to carry over the ARRA funds?
  • When will NIAID start issuing ARRA awards?
• Removed expired information about Challenge Grants.

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New information on Top Policy Changes:

• NIAID will support collaborative research partnerships through R01 and SBIR awards instead of cooperative agreements (U01).

New Special Announcements:

• NOT-AI-09-032, NIAID Announces a New Policy for Solicited Collaborative Research Partnerships
• NOT-OD-09-087, Error-Correction Window Extended for All Electronic Applications with Submission Deadlines through May 1, 2009

New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• Reorganized Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators to add a page for Supplements questions and answers.
• New questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:
  • Can a PI request a one- or two-year ARRA administrative supplement for 2009 through July 17?
  • Do I need to submit revised Specific Aims and a revised budget if I get a one-year R56-Bridge award?
  • How do I apply for my ARRA award after I receive your request?
• Expanded questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:
• What's different about a grant awarded using Recovery Act funds?
• Do I conduct my research differently using Recovery Act funds?
• How do I know if my application would qualify for a two-year award from stimulus funds?

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New NIH Funding Opportunities Relevant to NIAID:

• RFP-NIAID-DMID-NIHAI2009053, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Biological Resource Repository
• RFA-OD-09-004, Recovery Act Limited Competition for NIH Grants: Research and Research Infrastructure “Grand Opportunities”

New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• New on NIAID Participation in NIH ARRA Opportunities: added expiration dates (expired opportunities are in bold) and contact information.

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Updated information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• Updated multiple pages to reflect the fact that NIH notices NOT-OD-09-058 and NOT-OD-09-083 for competing supplements (revisions) expired on April 21.
• New funding opportunity Recovery Act Limited Competition for NIH Grants: Research and Research Infrastructure “Grand Opportunities” and the April 22, 2009 Guide notice for NIAID participation on:
  • Opportunity List on Opportunities for NIAID Applicants
  • NIAID Participation in NIH ARRA Opportunities

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New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

Updated Opportunities for NIAID Applicants:

• Recovery Act Limited Competition: Academic Research Enhancement Award

Updated NIAID Participation in NIH ARRA Opportunities:

• Recovery Act Limited Competition: Academic Research Enhancement Award
• Recovery Act 2009 Limited Competition: Enabling National Networking of Scientists and Resource Discovery (NIAID is not participating)

Changed answer to question on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• If I accept a two-year ARRA R01 but then learn that my resubmission scored below the 12 percentile, can I terminate the ARRA R01?

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New questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• Are R56-Bridge awards eligible for ARRA supplements?
• For an R01, can an administrative supplement support a PI’s salary or can it cover only salary for newly hired employees?

Expanded questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• Are there restrictions on the amount a PI can request for equipment?

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New Special Announcement:

• NOT-OD-09-084, Extension of the Expiration Date for PA-06-042 the Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA): R15
• NOT-OD-09-085, Implementation of Executive Order on Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells

New information on Top Policy Changes:

• The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 makes NIH's public access policy permanent and a term and condition of award.
• For new and early-stage investigators, applications with better scores can get longer awards: 12 to 16 percentile -- up to five years, 16 to 25 percentile -- up to four years.
• Changes to Bridge Award Program for applications that rank between the 12 and 25 percentile and qualify for ARRA support.

Updated Financial Management Plan and April 1, 2009, Funding News article, "Breaking Budget News: New Payline, Bridges" to reflect the new R56-Bridge award policy.

New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

Updated Funding Range for ARRA Awards on How NIAID Will Use the Stimulus Money to reflect the new R56-Bridge award policy.

Updated What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds and Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators with new information on carryover and reporting requirements.

New questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• If I accept a two-year ARRA R01 but then learn that my resubmission scored below the 12 percentile, can I terminate the ARRA R01?
• If I submit a request for a two-year administrative supplement, does the two-year period have to end on the same date as the parent grant?
• Are there restrictions on the amount a PI can request for equipment?

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New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

Reorganized Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators into the following:

• Table of Contents for All Recovery Act Questions
• Individual Question and Answer Pages:
  • Background Information
  • Getting Recovery Act Funding
  • Special ARRA Requirements
  • Conducting Research
  • Funding Opportunities
  • After the Stimulus Ends

Updated Special Reporting Requirements on What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds with a link to the NOT-OD-09-080 Guide notice for additional information on reporting requirements.

Updated Recovery Plans at NIH and Recent Changes to the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act Section to note that the list of ARRA NIH Guide announcements is on Special Announcements.

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New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• New Grants Policy Differences Between ARRA and Other Grants page.

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New NIH Funding Opportunities Relevant to NIAID:

• RFA-AI-09-017, International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research
• PA-09-152, Basic Research on HIV Persistence
• RFA-AI-09-025, Hepatitis C Cooperative Research Centers

New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• Updated Details on NIAID's ARRA Competing Supplements with new details about the research funded by competing supplements.

New questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• When can I request a no-cost extension if I am toward the end of my grant?
• Will NIAID award or extend fellowships and career awards from ARRA funds?
• Are small businesses eligible for ARRA funds including supplements?
• If I have an ARRA award, can I apply for an administrative supplement?
• Does an administrative supplement request have to stay within the scope of the research of the grant?

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New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• Updated Eligibility and Selection for NIAID's ARRA Funds to remove the restriction on funding new epidemiology grants and to add the requirement that all ARRA-funded research must yield meaningful results within the one- or two-year funding period.
• Updated Challenge Topics for NIAID with information from the Making the Most of the Stimulus article in the April 1, 2009, NIAID Funding News.
• Updated Details on NIAID's ARRA Competing Supplements, deleting most Information and advising applicants to go to NCRR's Competitive Revision Applications for details.
• New questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:
  • What do you mean by significant unexpended balances for administrative supplements? Is a balance greater than 25 percent of the current year's total approved budget significant?
  • Can medical students be supported through the NIH notice: Administrative Supplements Providing Summer Research Experiences for Students and Science Educators?
  • My application was assigned to NIAMS as primary institute and NIAID as secondary institute. Whom should I contact to have my application considered for stimulus funding?
  • Can I request one or two years of funding if I am in the first year of a no-cost extension for my R01?

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New Special Announcements:

• NOT-OD-09-081, SCAW IACUC-Advanced Workshop: June 15, 2009 in Research Triangle Park, NC
• NOT-OD-09-080, NIH Award Terms and Additional Information for Recipients Receiving Recovery Act Grant Funding
• NOT-OD-09-079, ARRA Administrative Supplements and Competitive Revisions: Clarifications on Programmatic Limitations and use of Modular Budgets
• NOT-OD-09-078, NIH ARRA Funding Considerations for Applications with Meritorious Scores that Fall Beyond the Payline

New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• New information at Opportunity List on Opportunities for NIAID Applicants to remind organizations that they must register in both Grants.gov and eRA Commons in order to apply for most NIH grants.

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Updated the following with new deadline -- June 15 -- for applicants seeking award before the end of a fiscal year.

• Reentry Supplements
• Primary Caregiver Technical Assistance Supplements
• Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research

New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• New information at Before You Can Get Stimulus Money on What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds to detail file format and headers to use if your Specific Aims must be deleted or significantly renegotiated.
• Updated Details on NIAID's ARRA Administrative Supplements with new information on ARRA administrative supplements during a no-cost extension.

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New NIH Funding Opportunities Relevant to NIAID:

• RFA-AI-09-016, Partnerships for Development of Vaccines for Selected Pathogens
• RFA-AI-09-015, Coordinating Center for Organ Transplant Clinical Trials

Updated Financial Management Plan to state that NIAID is funding new and early-stage investigators (from the FY 2009 appropriation) as follows:

• 12 to 16 percentile -- up to five years.
• 16 to 25 percentile -- up to four years.

Updated information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• Updated New Investigators in Opportunities for NIAID Applicants. NIAID is funding new and early-stage investigators for four or five years from our regular FY 2009 appropriation.
• Updated NIAID Supplements Through the Economic Recovery Act and Details on NIAID's ARRA Administrative Supplements to note that in the case of a no-cost extension, your grant has to be active at the time of the supplement award. A no-cost extension will not be processed earlier than 90 days before the end of your project.
• New and updated questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:
  • Can I get an ARRA award to extend my grant?
  • If I get a two-year R01 through Recovery Act funds, can I resubmit my original application?
  • If I am preparing an R01 grant application now for a deadline during FY 2009, can it be considered for stimulus funds if it falls within the 25 percentile?

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New Special Announcements:

• NOT-RR-09-011, Clarification to RFA-RR-09-007 and RFA-RR-09-008
• NOT-OD-09-077, Notice of Public Meeting: Expansion of the Clinical Trials Registry and Results Data Bank

Updated information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• Updated NIAID Supplements Through the Economic Recovery Act to remove cost limit to administrative supplements.
• Updated Details on NIAID's ARRA Administrative Supplements to clarify career development award supplement limits, add NIAID contact for summer supplements questions, and say that we will fund anything that fits within the scope of research.

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New question on Fellowships questions and answers: Should I submit my application electronically?

Updated the following stating that fellowship applications should be submitted electronically starting with the August 8, 2009, due date.

• Fellowship Grants SOP
• Applying for a Grant
• Applying for a Fellowship

New Special Announcements:

• NOT-OD-09-072, NIH Requires Mandatory Use of the eRA Commons Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI) Module beginning July 1, 2009 for NIH-funded Grants and/or Cooperative Agreements
• NOT-OD-09-074, Enhancing Peer Review: The NIH Announces Consolidation of Review Criteria for Institutional Research Training Grant Applications (T32) Submitted for FY 2010 Funding
• NOT-OD-09-075, Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Stipend and Other Budgetary Levels Effective for Fiscal Year 2009.
• NOT-OD-09-076, Notice Regarding RFA-OD-09-005, "Recovery Act Limited Competition: Biomedical Research Core Centers to Enhance Research Resources (P30)"

New and updated information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• New Funding Range for ARRA Awards section on How NIAID Will Use the Stimulus Money.
• New Eligibility and Selection for NIAID's ARRA Funds page.
• Updated NIAID Supplements Through the Economic Recovery Act with new information on competing supplements.
• New Details on NIAID's ARRA Competing Supplements page.
• New Details on NIAID's ARRA Administrative Supplements page.
• New Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:
  • Are equipment purchases through ARRA supplements subject to the Buy American Act?
  • What happens if my application is assigned to NIAID for an opportunity that NIAID isn't participating in?
  • Is there a dollar limit to how much I can request for an administrative supplement?
  • If I get a two-year R01 through Recovery Act funds, can I resubmit my original application?
  • If I missed the opportunity to get a two-year ARRA award, what happens if I’m outside the payline next year? Could the payline be different next fiscal year?
  • I don't see my research area on the Challenge Grant list -- what should I do?
  • Why do you refer to two-year awards when September 2010 is only one and a half years away?
• Updated Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:
• If I'm applying for an opportunity, can I reuse an existing application?
• Can I get money for equipment, construction, or alterations and renovations?
• New warning on Opportunities for NIAID Applicants and NIAID Participation in NIH ARRA Opportunities: If you list NIAID as the primary Institute for an opportunity we are not participating in, your application may not be reviewed. Based on referral guidelines, CSR will assign it to another institute, which may not accept the assignment.

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New and updated information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• New NIAID Participation in NIH ARRA Opportunities page with a table of NIH opportunities and which ones NIAID participates in.
• Updated Opportunities for NIAID Applicants to remove references to proposed opportunities that are not yet active. We will post them as they are announced.

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New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• New option to Subscribe to get email when we update the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section.

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New contact for NIAID Receipt and Referral on the 901 Form, Request for Assignment Changes.

Updated Peer Review of R&D Contract Technical Proposals SOP with reminders to protect reviewer confidentiality, reviewer role to recommend whether effort and stated direct costs are appropriate, and summary of which forms go to the official contract file.

Updated the following to reflect salary cap for FY 2009:

• Budget and Funding
• PI Salary Cap and Stipends
• Top Policy Changes

New Special Announcements:

• NOT-OD-09-069, Salary Limitation on Grants, Cooperative Agreements, and Contracts
• NOT-OD-09-070, Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2009
• NOT-OD-09-071, The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 Makes the NIH Public Access Policy Permanent.

Updated information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• Clarified on What Happens After the Stimulus Ends that if you receive an FY 2009 stimulus two-year grant, we cannot fund a resubmission to that award, but we can terminate it if you submit a renewal early and get a fundable score.

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New Special Announcements:

• NOT-OD-09-068, Announcing the FY 2009 NIH Director’s Bridge Awards
• NOT-RR-09-010, Videocast Regarding Application Process for RFA-RR-09-007 and RFA-RR-09-008

New information on Budget and Funding and Top Policy Changes:

• NIAID is not using R56-Bridge awards in FY 2009. We have more information for R56-Bridge Awards in our Financial Management Plan.
• Stipend level increase by 1 percent on PI Salary Cap and Stipends and NRSA Stipend Levels.

New and updated information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• New information throughout NIAID Supplements Through the Economic Recovery Act page.
  • NIAID's approach for ARRA administrative supplements will differ somewhat from what NIH spelled out in the Guide notices. See the new section:
    • How NIAID Administrative Supplements Differ
  • We will continue to add more details there. Therefore, we removed the internal NIAID Administrative ARRA Supplements page; it now forwards staff to the public page and Guide notices.
• Expanded definition of Domestic grants in Investigator-Initiated Research Project Grants on How NIAID Will Use the Stimulus Money.
• Updated How to Conduct a Two-Year Research Project on What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds to reflect that investigators will be renegotiating Specific Aims for the two-year R01.
• Updated NIAID Supplements Through the Economic Recovery Act for a policy change: NIAID is not participating in the NIH-wide competing supplement notice, NOT-OD-09-058, but we may fund other competing supplements. We will add details later.
• Updated Strategy for Funding After the Stimulus on the What Happens After the Stimulus Ends page based on new NIH projections. Keep your timing options open, recognizing that FY 2011 and possibly the subsequent year or two will be really difficult for applicants.
• Updated How NIAID Will Use the Stimulus Money and Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators to note that NIAID is not using R56-Bridge awards in FY 2009. We have more information for R56-Bridge Awards in our Financial Management Plan.
• Updated What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds to use the term "recipient" when it is unknown who at the grantee organization will have some of these responsibilities.
• Noted sitewide that NIH has initially spelled out requirements in the Standard Terms and Conditions for ARRA Awards, but more details are coming.
• Noted sitewide that though grantees are not required to spend their funds by September 30, 2010, the legislation intends that they will use the funds promptly to stimulate the economy.

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New NIH Funding Opportunities Relevant to NIAID:

• NOT-OD-09-056, Recovery Act Funds for Administrative Supplements
• NOT-OD-09-060, Recovery Act Funds for Administrative Supplements Providing Summer Research Experiences for Students and Science Educators

New Special Announcements:

• NOT-OD-09-056, Recovery Act Funds for Administrative Supplements
• NOT-OD-09-058, Recovery Act Funds for Competitive Revision Applications
• NOT-OD-09-060, Recovery Act Funds for Administrative Supplements Providing Summer Research Experiences for Students and Science Educators
• NOT-OD-09-062, Extension of Expiration Date for PA-07-277, PA-06-367, and PA-06-368 Research on Ethical Issues in Human Subjects Research
• NOT-OD-09-066, NIH Fiscal Policy for Grant Awards – FY 2009

New and updated information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• New Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators page.
• Updates on Challenge Topics for NIAID:
  • Changed phone number for 04-AI-101 contact, Annette Rothermel, to 301-496-7104.
  • 03-AI-101 contact changed to Samuel Perdue, 301-402-5083, sperdue@niaid.nih.gov.
• Updated NIAID Administrative ARRA Supplements page to remove reference to T32. There won't be any ARRA supplements for T32 grants.

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Updated information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• Administrative Supplements to Grants and Cooperative Agreements SOP with information on supplements using ARRA funds.
• What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds to state that, when you submit your detailed budget, you do not need a budget justification unless the budget has changed.

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New NIAID Administrative ARRA Supplements in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section.

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New Budget and Funding information. On March 11, the President signed H.R.1105 into law for the FY 2009 budget.

• NIAID Paylines. We now have FY 2009 R01 paylines. For all other grant types except T32, we have interim paylines.
• Financial Management Plan. We will restore funds to noncompeting awards.

New information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• New detailed budget information on What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds.
• New advice on Opportunities for NIAID Applicants for New Investigators.

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New program officers on Program Officers Listed by Program Class Codes (MS Excel) for A10, A10A through A10L, A10R, and I2G.

New Special Announcements:

• NOT-RR-09-009, Web Seminar Regarding Application Process for RFA-RR-09-007 and RFA-RR-09-008
• NOT-OD-09-063, NIH Announces Its 2009 SBIR/STTR Conference (June 30 – July 1, 2009)

Updates and new information in the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section:

• New note on many NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act pages to clarify that the information on the page is specific to NIAID.
• New link to reporting requirements in Standard Terms and Conditions for ARRA Awards on What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds.
• New information box on Opportunities for NIAID Applicants to describe how you may be able to use an existing application.
• Renamed What the Stimulus Means for NIAID Applicants page to Opportunities for NIAID Applicants.
• Updates on Challenge Topics for NIAID:
  • Revised last sentence of 05-AI-101 -- Accelerated Aging in Treated vs. Untreated HIV/AIDS.
  • 05-AI-102 renamed to Comparative-effectiveness of ART.
  • 04-AI-102 contact changed to Matthew Fenton, 301-496-8973, fentonm@mail.nih.gov.

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New NIH Funding Opportunities Relevant to NIAID:

• RFA-AI-09-010, International Collaborations in Infectious Disease Research
• PA-09-119, Phased Innovation Award Program for AIDS Vaccine Research

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• administrative supplement
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
• career development awards
• competing application
• continuing resolution
• cooperative agreement
• early-stage investigator (ESI)
• fellowships
• financial management plan
• fiscal year (FY)
• just-in-time
• new investigator
• noncompeting
• peer reviewers
• R56-Bridge
• renewal
• resubmission
• selective pay
• set aside
• signature assurance
• training grants (T)

See the Glossary for more terms.