When you are ready to retire and your institution wants to pass on your active grant to another principal investigator (PI), your institution will need to seek and receive NIAID’s prior approval as explained in our Change of Principal Investigator SOP. More broadly, reference that SOP any time a PI will reduce effort by 25 percent or more or be absent for 3 or more consecutive months.
We also expect the recipient to withdraw any of the PI’s submitted applications not yet awarded, following the process listed in our Investigator Withdrawal of an Application SOP.