Grant Application

Talk to a Program Officer

• Contact Staff for Help. Talk to a program officer about how your area of science fits NIAID's mission and opportunities. Also see Health and Research Topics.

Pick an Opportunity and Begin Planning

• Opportunities and Announcements
• NIH Guide
• NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal. Navigate through the world of grants from qualifying to staying funded. R01 focus.
  • Part 1. Qualifying for a Grant
  • Part 2. Game Plan
  • Part 3. Define Your Project
• All About Grants. More tutorials and application tools.

Write Your Application

• NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal
  • Part 4. Target Your Audience
    • Find study section members at CSR Study Section Roster Index.
  • Part 5. Research Plan
  • Part 6. Other Application Sections
  • Part 12. Renewal Application
• All About Grants
  • Sample R01 Applications and Summary Statements. These samples may help you design your research plan and other sections.
  • R01 Application to Award Timeline by Review Cycle

Apply

• NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal
  • Part 7. Applying. This section helps you decide when to submit a corrected application.
• See more in Useful Links on the right.

More NIAID Grant Portals

For more information, pick the appropriate topic from NIAID's main list of Grants portals by stage, audience, and science area.

Get More Details on Related Topics

• Standard Operating Procedures
  • Application section
    • Find Topics and Opportunities
    • Prepare Application
    • Applying and After
• Questions and Answers
  • Application section
    • Find Topics and Opportunities
    • Prepare Application
    • Applying and After

NIH Policy Portals

• Animals in Research
• Conflict of Interest
• Genome-Wide Association Studies
• Intellectual Property
• Multiple Principal Investigators
• Public Access
• Research Involving Human Subjects
• Sharing Policies and Related Guidance

Other Useful Links

• Center for Scientific Review
  • CSR Study Section Roster Index
  • Descriptions of the Integrated Review Groups, Study Sections, and Small Business Activities
• Electronic Submission
  • Electronic Application Process
  • Avoiding Common Errors
  • Finding Help
  • Listserv, Receive News and Updates
  • Parent Announcements for Investigator-Initiated Applications
  • Transition Timeline to electronic application and Adobe forms.
• eRA Commons
  • Help Desk
• Grants.gov
  • Help
  • Download Software
• SF 424 Application Guides
• Standard NIH Submission Dates
• Success Rates
  • Research Project Success Rates for NIAID

Look It Up

• Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
• eRA Commons
• error
• genome-wide association study (GWAS)
• human subjects
• initial peer review
• integrated review group (IRG)
• multiple PI
• NIH Guide
• parent program announcement
• R01
• renewal
• Research Plan
• study section
• success rate
• summary statement

See the Glossary for more terms.