NIH Grant Mechanisms
This is the NIH's most commonly used research project grant mechanism, typically supporting discrete projects for three to five years.
What is an R01?
It is advisable to begin the grant application process at least this far in advance of the due date.
What is six months?
For Research Project Grants, this core review criterion encompasses Significance and Innovation.
What is Importance of the Research (Factor 1)?
This one-page section of the NIH grant application is often considered the heart of the proposal, outlining its goals, research questions, and expected impact.
What is the Specific Aims page?
This NIH website provides a comprehensive resource for information related to NIH expenditures and the outcomes of NIH-supported research.
What is RePORT (Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools)?
These NIH grant series are primarily designed to support individuals in their career trajectory towards research independence.
What are the K series grants?
This NIH staff member is your primary contact both before submitting your application (regarding suitability and mechanism) and after the summary statement is issued (regarding review outcome).
Who is the Program Official (PO)?
Reviewers assess these aspects of the proposed work by evaluating the likelihood that compelling, reproducible findings will result.
What are rigor and reproducibility?
This section of the Research Strategy should compellingly articulate the importance of the problem the research addresses and the context of the field.
What is Significance?
This specific tool within RePORT allows users to search a vast repository of NIH-funded research projects.
What is RePORTER?
These funding opportunities can be either solicited by NIH Institutes and Centers to meet a specific need or initiated by investigators under Parent Announcements.
What are solicited and unsolicited funding opportunities?
This is the official and exhaustive NIH source of information, including grant policies, guidelines, and funding opportunities.
What is the NIH Grants & Funding page?
For Research Project Grants, this core review criterion includes the Approach.
What is Rigor and Feasibility (Factor 2)?
In the Research Strategy, this section requires a clear explanation of how the proposed project challenges and seeks to shift current research or clinical practice paradigms.
What is Innovation?
This RePORT tool allows you to enter scientific text to find similar projects and the NIH Program Officials associated with them.
What is Matchmaker?
This type of NIH Program Announcement may have special review criteria or receipt dates and might include set-aside funds.
What is a PAR (Program Announcement with Special Review Criteria and/or Special Receipt Dates)?
After the first level of peer review by the Scientific Review Group, the second level of review is conducted by this entity of the funding Institute or Center.
What is the National Advisory Council?
While not directly scored for RPGs, this factor in the simplified review framework considers the qualifications and experience of the PI and the appropriateness of the institutional resources.
What is Expertise and Resources (Factor 3)?
This optional section of the Research Strategy can be used in new applications to present data supporting the project's rationale and approach.
What is Preliminary Data?
This free profile service within My NCBI helps you create and manage documents needed for grant applications, such as the NIH Biosketch.
What is SciENcv?
While the R01 generally has no specific dollar limit, prior approval is required for projects with direct costs exceeding this amount in any single year.
What is $500,000?
Before a Notice of Award is issued for a favorably reviewed application, the applicant may be asked to submit this type of information.
What is Just-in-Time (JIT) information?
In the peer review process, applications in approximately the bottom half based on pre-meeting scores undergo this process, meaning they are not discussed.
What is triage?
When resubmitting an NIH grant application, you are entitled to an extra page at the beginning, known by this name, where you can respond to the critiques from the first review cycle.
What is the Introduction (to the Amended Application or A1)?
According to the workshop, the NIH produces this audio resource, offering insights into the NIH funding process through discussions with NIH staff experts.
What is the All About Grants podcast?