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Level Budgets on the Horizon Next Fiscal YearExpect a flat funding line again in FY 2008, which begins this October 1. Funding policies for FY 2008 apply to new and competing applications submitted for the September or October 2007 Council round. The President's Budget requests $28.85 billion for NIH and $4.59 billion for NIAID, which includes a $300 million pass-through for the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. Excluding the pass-through, NIAID's budget grows only 0.2 percent from FY 2007. Though the President's Budget request is only the first step in the budget cycle, we do not expect to see major increases next fiscal year. Other features of the President's Budget are as follows:
Read a Summary of the FY 2008 President’s Request and NIAID's Justification Narrative for FY 2008 President's Budget for NIAID. For all IC payline information, go to FY 2007 Funding Strategies on the NIH Financial Operations Web site.
Welcome Five New Council MembersWe'd like to welcome the new members of our main advisory body, the National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases Council. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (DAIDS) Subcommittee
Allergy and Immunology (DAIT) Subcommittee
For bios and pictures, go to NIAID Council Members, Biographical Sketches on our Council page.
New Congressional LineupWith the switch to Democratic control of Congress, committees that affect NIH have new chairs and ranking minority members. Congress authorizes us to pursue our mission and appropriates tax money to fund research. Here are the Congressional committees most important to us. Senate
House of Representatives
For more on the budget cycle, see pages starting with the NIAID Funding Opportunity Planning and the Budget Cycle in the Grant Application Basics tutorial.
Use Our Checklists When Writing Your ApplicationHere's an efficient way to learn the ins and outs of writing an NIH grant application: go directly to our newly updated Checklists for the NIH Grant Cycle. At a fraction of the size of the All About Grants tutorials, the Checklists feature short bulleted lists that have the important requirements and pitfalls you'll need to know. Each checklist section now links to the relevant All About Grants pages in case you want more detail. And you may want to check out our expanded Checklists for Planning and Writing a Human Subjects Grant Application.
Grants.gov Correction Window Extended to March 14Due to delays in Grants.gov, NIH is giving people applying for the March 5 receipt date till March 14 to correct errors from either Grants.gov or eRA Commons validation. NIH sent a notice to this effect to everyone on its Listserv, and you may have seen the slowness alert on Grants.gov and on the NIH Electronic Submission site.
When Grants.gov Is SlowRegular procedures ensure that you are not penalized for Grants.gov processing delays. To be on time, your application must have a time stamp by 5:00 p.m. local time on the due date. Grants.gov immediately gives your application a time stamp and tracking number after your authorized organizational representative submits it. Any processing after that does not affect the submission time. It's not just NIH applicants, but also those from other agencies who can bog down Grants.gov's resources. Apply early to avoid crunch times. There may be overlapping submission dates you don't know about. Once you're in, it can take up to 48 hours for your submission get through validations, and Grants.gov's Contact Center wants you to wait that much time before requesting help.
Reader QuestionsOscar E. Suman, assistant professor, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, asks: “Does resubmitting an application remove an existing scored application from being considered at the Council meeting?” Yes. A resubmission of a scored application automatically withdraws the original application. However, NIAID does reactivate the original application if we can award it. This may happen if NIAID increases its payline at the end of the fiscal year. For advice on resubmitting, see How to Revise and Resubmit in the NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal. Charisma D. Edwards, electrical engineering doctoral student, Louisiana State University, asks: “How can a doctoral student write a relevant biographical sketch?" We recommend using the biosketch from your mentor’s grant application as an example. Remember that your biosketch cannot exceed four pages and should include:
As a doctoral student, we do not expect you to have extensive experience in publications. You should add all three section headers whether or not you have information for that area. Read more about biosketches at Senior/Key Person Profile Form: Prepare the Biographical Sketches in the NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal. Sungeun Lee, research assistant, Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research, asks: "Will NIH funding support foreign postdoctoral fellows?" Foreign postdoc fellows may work on NIH-funded research grants, but they may not work on an NRSA fellowship or training grant. According to the NIH Grants Policy Statement, PIs and others supported by NIH research grants are usually not required to be U.S. citizens, though some programs have citizenship requirements. Check the program announcement or request for applications to be sure. If you plan to work with select agents, see our Foreign Workers on NIH Awards SOP. Also read Part 1. Qualifying for a Grant and International Awards questions and answers. Jarrod Provins, scientist, Ionian Technologies Inc., asks: "Do academic institutions or for-profit organizations more often get NIAID Cooperative Research Partnerships awards?" NIAID awarded 44 cooperative research partnership awards in FY 2006. For-profit organizations won 16 of these awards, and the majority of the remaining awards were won by academic institutions who subcontract work to for-profit firms.
See these and older announcements on our NIH Funding Opportunities Relevant to NIAID.
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