Yes, but you should reach out to the program officer listed on your Notice of Award to discuss.
All administrative supplement requests must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov to NIH using the Application Submission System and Interface for Submission Tracking (ASSIST), Grants.gov Workspace, or a system-to-system solution. For more information, refer to NOT-OD-20-128, Requirement for Electronic Submission of All Administrative Supplements.
Three methods to initiate an administrative supplement through eRA systems are listed below.
- Initiate in ASSIST, enter the notice of funding opportunity number for an administrative supplement, and enter information manually.
- Initiate in ASSIST and after entering the federal ID number of the parent grant award, some of the information from the parent award is pre-populated.
- Initiate through eRA Commons and after identifying a specific grant for administrative supplement, be directed by the system to ASSIST where some information from the parent award is pre-populated.
No. NIH administrative supplements are used to supplement only NIH grants, not grants from other funding sources.
Yes. The application budget cannot exceed a maximum direct cost of $70,000. The administrative supplement budget is limited to 1 year.
Yes. Critical life events include childbirth, adoption, serious personal health issues or illness and/or debilitating conditions, high-risk pregnancy, and primary caregiving responsibilities of an ailing spouse, child, partner, parent, or a member of the immediate family during the project. In circumstances in which the critical life event is pending and is expected to occur during the project period, the supplement request may be submitted in advance of the event.
No. Candidates must have a doctoral degree and had a postdoctoral or faculty position when they left active research. Candidates who have begun the re-entry process through a fellowship, traineeship, or similar mechanism are not eligible for this program. Re-entry supplement funding is not intended to provide an alternative or additional means of supporting a candidate who is already receiving Public Health Service support.
Yes. Re-entry: Doctoral degree holders who have experienced a career interruption of at least 6 months and no more than 8 years may apply to the re-entry program. The program is not intended to support additional graduate training and career changes from non-research to research careers for individuals without prior research training. Generally, the candidate should be in a complete or partial hiatus from research activities at the time of application and should not be engaged in full-time paid research activities.
Yes. Re-integration: Candidates with doctoral degrees and graduate students seeking to transition out of unsafe research environments because of discriminatory and unlawful harassment are eligible to apply for re-integration supplement support to continue research training as soon as a new and safe research environment has been identified.
Yes. Candidates who have at least 2 years of postdoctoral research experience, scientists appointed as research associates, instructors, assistant or associate professors, and other scientists employed in government or industry with experiences equivalent to those of postdoctoral candidates are eligible to apply.
No. This program helps support eligible postdoctoral scientists maintain high productivity in an NIAID-funded laboratory while engaging in primary caregiver responsibilities. NIAID recognizes that postdoctoral scientists with young children or ailing relatives are sometimes unable to focus completely on their research activities because of primary caregiver responsibilities. As a result, these circumstances may delay an individual’s transition to an independent career or reduce their scientific productivity at critical periods.
A parent grant may support only one technician on a supplement. Postdoctoral fellows must have completed work for at least 1 full year at an NIAID-funded laboratory and be primary caregivers for a child or ailing relative. Technicians must be named in the application. Technicians do not need U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status (temporary work and student visas are acceptable).