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An Update on Improving NRSA Fellowship Review
Funding News Edition: November 8, 2023
A trans-NIH committee will develop a timeline and implement changes to improve review of Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) individual fellowship applications.
News Briefs and Worth Repeating
Funding News Edition: November 8, 2023
Prepare for Opportunity to Advance MCM Development for AMR Bacteria and Fungi; Submit Annual Reports to OLAW by December 1, 2023; Provide Feedback on HIV and Women’s Health, Consent Language for Digital Technologies.
Find the Right Person to Help You with General Inquiries
Funding News Edition: November 8, 2023
Whom should you ask for help with general matters like identifying an appropriate funding opportunity or discovering available resources?
“Will the new peer review criteria impact applications due on or after January 25, 2024?”
Funding News Edition: November 8, 2023
No, the implementation date for NIH’s Simplified Peer Review Framework is January 25, 2025—so, about 15 months from now, not 10 weeks. Later next year, NIH will reissue notices of funding opportunity to reflect the simplified review criteria and provide updated resources to applicants and reviewers.Learn more by watching the Online Briefing on NIH's Simplified Peer Review Framework for NIH
Why Criterion Scores Don’t Add Up
Funding News Edition: October 20, 2023
The criterion scores reflect the views of the assigned reviewers while your overall impact score reflects the scores of all the panel members who voted.

NIH Seeks Implementation Research Projects to Help End HIV
Funding News Edition: October 20, 2023
Apply if you can expand or improve engagement and re-engagement in HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and care services, or improve strategies to deliver integrated HIV prevention, treatment, and care services to address co-morbidities and co-infections.
Help NIH Advance Rheumatic Heart Disease Research
Funding News Edition: October 20, 2023
Help discover innovative methods and strategies to support the eradication of Rheumatic Heart Disease, which remains endemic in low- and middle-income countries and low-resource settings.
An Initiative to Support Senior Administrators from Low- or Middle-Income Countries
Funding News Edition: October 20, 2023
Our goal is to improve oversight of NIAID grant awards and compliance with NIH funding policies and federal research funding requirements for NIAID-supported foreign institutions.
Funding Opportunity Focuses on Computational Models of Influenza Immunity
Funding News Edition: October 20, 2023
Propose a computational model that is data-driven, macromolecular, or hypothesis-based and mechanistically-driven and generalizable to multiple types of immune perturbations.
Share Your Perspective on NIH’s Plan to Safeguard Scientific Integrity
Funding News Edition: October 20, 2023
The draft NIH Scientific Integrity Policy establishes the appointments of, and roles and responsibilities for, the positions of NIH Chief Scientist and Scientific Integrity Official.
NIAID Recognizes and Supports At-Risk Investigators
Funding News Edition: October 20, 2023
An at-risk investigator has had substantial, independent NIH funding as a principal investigator and, unless successful in securing a substantial research grant award in the current fiscal year, will have no substantial research grant funding in the following fiscal year.
News Briefs and Worth Repeating
Funding News Edition: October 20, 2023
I-Corps Deadlines and Dates for FY 2024 Cohorts Announced; Materials from CHIVIM Clinical Studies and Trials Available; Small Business Collaboration with Resource-Limited Institutions.
Does Your NIAID Grant Opportunity Have Questions and Answers?
Funding News Edition: October 20, 2023
Any time you read an NIAID notice of funding opportunity, build a habit of checking whether there is an associated questions and answers page.
“What is the average age of a first-time principal investigator?”
Funding News Edition: October 20, 2023
“Are people with disabilities designated as a population with health disparities for research supported by NIH?”
Funding News Edition: October 20, 2023
Guidance to Accompany Our Interim Financial Management Plan
Funding News Edition: October 20, 2023
NIAID has not reduced competing or noncompeting awards in some time, but we do so now in light of budget uncertainty.
A Summary of Outcomes from Our September Advisory Council Meeting
Funding News Edition: October 4, 2023
NIAID Acting Director Dr. Hugh Auchincloss provided remarks on the Institute’s administrative, budget, and scientific news. He was followed by guest speaker Dr. Ted Pierson, Director of NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center, who discussed recent scientific advances and ongoing research priorities.

Expanded Opportunity to Conduct Basic Research on HIV Cure Strategies
Funding News Edition: October 4, 2023
NIAID will support basic research into novel mechanisms that contribute to intervention-mediated viral control and reductions in reservoir size as well as experimental, innovative targeted intervention activities.
Apply to Create a Diagnostic Center of Excellence for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network
Funding News Edition: October 4, 2023
Successful applicants will demonstrate that they have the appropriate expertise, resources, and infrastructure needed to conduct advanced diagnostic evaluations at their site.
Focus of Funding Opportunity—Interventions to Improve Health in Native American Populations
Funding News Edition: October 4, 2023
Design interventions with consideration for sustainability within the communities where they are tested, and with the flexibility to be readily adapted, disseminated, and scaled up to other communities where culturally appropriate.
An Acronym to Know—Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PEDP)
Funding News Edition: October 4, 2023
In a Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives, you'll broadly consider how diverse perspectives can advance research outcomes, in addition to bringing equity and inclusion to the science they inform.
News Briefs and Worth Repeating
Funding News Edition: October 4, 2023
Join NIH Webinar on Subaward Rules and Procedures; Eligibility Window for F30 Applicants Is 48 Months from Matriculation; Attend NIAID Workshop on Approaches to Bacteria Antigen Discovery; Answer a Pair of RFIs from NIH’s Office of Data Science Strategy; Change to Organization Eligibility for STRONG Funding Opportunity
Don’t Overlook the Three Types of Overlap
Funding News Edition: October 4, 2023
Overlap may be scientific, budgetary, or commitment related. To resolve concerns around overlap, you’ll need to provide information as part of the Just-in-Time (JIT) process that occurs after peer review, when NIAID is considering the application for funding.
“If I applied well ahead of the due date, and I want to change an aspect of my application, can I withdraw it and submit again?”
Funding News Edition: October 4, 2023
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