Should You Be One of Many PIs?
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| Fundamentals |
| On a multi-PI application, you need to act as a full-fledged PI. |
| Science drives the decision for choosing multiple PIs. |
| You may forfeit your status as a new PI. |
Contact your program officer early. |
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As a new or early-stage investigator, you may consider a multiple PI application as an entree into NIH funding.
The appeal: you can join a group of experienced investigators, and you will not have to write an entire application.
But beware. The choice is demanding, and we often caution against it. Read the caveats below.
- Is it appropriate?
- A multiple PI application is for collaborative projects with distinct subprojects that address a core objective or theme.
- As a full-fledged principal investigator, you must be fully in charge of at least one research aim, and your project must be significant enough to stand on its own.
- You may lose new or early-stage investigator status.
- For most award types, you no longer qualify as "new" after the project is funded. For more information, see Are You "New"?
- As part of a multiple PI application, you are not "new" unless all the other PIs also meet NIH's new or early-stage investigator definition.
- It can be harder to succeed in peer review.
Contact your program officer early on to discuss whether the multi-PI approach is appropriate and beneficial for you.
For details, read Take Heed -- You Might Want to Avoid a Multiple PI Application in the NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal.
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