Grant Duration Policy SOP

Purpose

To enable NIAID to achieve an average duration of four years for competing grants.

Procedure

Following its financial management plan, NIAID sets policies that enable it to comply with the four-year average grant length mandated by Congress.

The Institute favors five-year awards for standard research project (R01) grants, and achieves the mandated award duration by balancing the funding of complex grants for longer periods with the funding of short-term R56-Bridge and exploratory awards.

The NIH grant duration limitation is five years of funding. Waiving this limit requires approval at NIH or HHS level, so a waiver requires the most substantive justification.

In some fiscal years, the Institute also sets policies to more evenly distribute grant funding throughout the fiscal year. To accomplish this, NIAID resets grant anniversary dates for many new and renewal grants. See the Resetting Grant Start Dates questions and answers and the Resetting Grant Anniversary Dates table for details on the procedures and how they work.

Applicants

• For grants listed below, you may request up to five years of support.
  • Investigator-initiated program project (P01) grants.
  • Investigator-initiated R01s.
  • RFAs and PAs for program projects, centers, and cooperative agreements.
• For grants listed below, you may request up to four years of support.
  • R01 applications responding to RFAs.

NIAID Staff

• For grants listed below, you may nominate for a maximum of four years of support.
• Select pay awards.
• End-of-fiscal year awards.

Contacts

Cindy McDermott, cm253t@nih.gov, 301/594-7456

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Links

Cooperative Agreements SOP

Multiproject Awards (P01, P50, U19) SOP

Program Announcements SOP

R56-Bridge Award SOP

Requests for Applications SOP

Selective Pay SOP