National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Special
NIH Review Session on Electronic
Proposal Submissions
On Wednesday,
January 11, administrators and several
faculty gathered to view a special "Web Cast" on the
preparation and submission of NIH grant
proposals using Grants.Gov. The 3.5
hour broadcast was recorded and has been
archived on the NIH web site for
individual viewing. To access
click here.
For several months we have been
reporting on - and attempting to resolve
- a range of problems associated with
implementation of Grants.gov.
These problems are not unique to BNL;
they affect every grant-seeking
institution in the country, but
especially those investigators who use
Mac computers of other than Microsoft's
Internet Explorer. NIH appears to
have acknowledged the severity of this
problem with a statement released on
February 7, 2006 postponing
implementation of Grants.gov for
unsolicited R01 grant applications -
what is by far the agency's most popular
grant mechanism. Implementation
for R01s is now postponed until February
2007. For further information, you
may wish to review recent announcements
from NIH (links provided below).
Notice from NIH published August 19,
2005: NIH Announces Initial Plans
to Transition to the SF424(R&R)
Application and Electronic Submission
through Grants.gov
NIH Revises Grants.Gov implementation
Plan for the R01 award mechanism (Notice
published February 7, 2006)
eRA-Commons
eRA-Commons is NIH's foray into the world of electronic research
administration. If you intend to
submit a grant proposal to the NIH, it
is incumbent upon you to register in the
eRA-Commons database. Please note:
NIH grant applicants must register both
as Grants.Gov users and as eRA-Commons
users. The use of both sites will
be required in the preparation and
submission of NIH grant proposals. For information on how to register as a BNL user of eRA Commons,
click here. To access
the eRA-Commons site, click here.
PHS398: Grant
Application Instructions and Forms
PHS398 is the designation or form number assigned to the
traditional NIH grant application
package which, of course, is being
phased out in favor of electronic
proposal submission using Grants.Gov.
Nonetheless, select grant competitions
will continue to use the PHS398 over the
next year; for this reason we provide
you this link to access the
complete
instructions and array of forms. Several partially-completed
PHS398 forms follow:
Cover-Page
with BNL content
Checklist with BNL content /
Checklist - supplementary info sheet
For assistance with instructions or forms, contact
Alison Schwarz at extension
3428.
NIH Announces Updated
Criteria for Evaluating Research Grant
Applications
In a notice published on 12 October 2004, the NIH announced the updating of
review criteria to take effect in January 2005. For copy of this announcement,
click here.
NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts
A weekly publication providing access to all Requests for Applications,
Program Announcements and other important Notices from the National Institutes
of Health. To access the NIH Guide's search page,
click here.
CRISP: Project Abstracts of Current and Past NIH Awards
CRISP stands for Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects.
CRISP provides information and descriptive project abstracts for all currently
funded NIH awards and past awards dating back to 1972. The database is
searchable in a number of different ways including subject matter,
investigator's name or institution.
To access
CRISP, click here.
Study Section Rosters
NIH provides easy access to information about its various Study Sections,
including both a mission/purpose statement for each section and a membership
roster. To access
Study Section information, click here.
The NIH Grant Review Process
Potential grant applicants who wish to learn a bit more about the NIH
proposal review process may be interested in viewing a 39-minute video of a mock
panel review. This video was prepared by the NIH.
To access, click here.
Resources for New Investigators
A web site for new NIH investigators.
Click here.
Links to the individual Institutes and Centers of NIH
To learn more about the composition of the NIH, including links to each of
its Centers and Institutes, click here.
Policy Statements and Other Important Information
Last Modified: February 4, 2008 Please forward all questions about this site to:
Christine Brakel
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