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Writing a Winning Application—Draft and Evaluate Specific Aims

Your project should tackle important research within your niche and must be able to move your field forward. Identifying reasonable Specific Aims is the best way to guide your project's design.

Opportunities and Resources

Commercialization Support for Small Business Awardees

Phase II or Phase IIB small business grantees and contractors can apply for technical assistance and late-stage research and development support to advance product commercialization.

In The News

Evolving COVID-19 Research Needs Guide Changes to Funding Opportunities

On August 14, 2020, NIAID will expire a pair of emergency funding opportunity announcements we issued in late April that solicited R01 and R21 applications for rapid investigation research projects on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.

Applicants Should Not Include COVID-19 Contingency Plans in Research Project Proposals

Applications should not propose COVID-19 pandemic contingency plans, as peer reviewers will not evaluate them. NIH instructed peer reviewers to “assume that temporary, emergency problems arising from the COVID-19 pandemic will be resolved.”

NIH Accepts Only Electronic Submissions for Administrative Supplements

As of July 25, 2020, grantees who submit administrative supplement applications to single- and multi-project awards must submit electronically through Grants.gov using NIH ASSIST, Grants.gov Workspace, or institutional system-to-system solutions.

Africa Data Science Virtual Symposium Is Now Open

Registration is open now for NIH's online-only Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa Virtual Symposium Platform, which runs through November 2020.

Advice Corner

Remember To Follow the Single IRB Policy

For non-exempt human subjects research using a single protocol at multiple U.S. sites, you must identify a single institutional review board (sIRB) of record that will conduct the ethical review of your protocol.

Reader Questions

“In my grant application, can I budget salary escalation for each year of the project period?”

“My subawardee is unable to complete agreed and approved work. What should I do?”

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Email us at deaweb@niaid.nih.gov for help navigating NIAID’s grant and contract policies and procedures.

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