NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

NIH R01 Alert - 28 November 06

NIH Adjusts Timeline for Electronic Application Submission to Provide Additional Time Before the R01 Transition

NIH Grants.gov competing application implementation schedule

NIH's New Electronic Grant Application Process and the SF424 (R&R) You will need RealPlayer; test your system and the plugin or get appropriate downloads at http://videocast.nih.gov/. For additional information, contact your Contract and Grant Specialist.

NIH Salary Cap - The final bill funding NIH for FY 2006 retains the reimbursement salary cap for NIH, AHRQ, and SAMHSA grants at Executive Level I.  The Office of Personnel Management last week announced that for 2006, the Executive Level I salary level would rise to $183,500, up $3,400 over the 2005 level of $180,100. The 2006 OPM salary tables are at http://www.opm.gov/oca/06tables/index.asp As in past years, the NIH Office for Extramural Research will develop a Policy Notice that will announce this and other legislative mandates.

NIH announced recently that it will begin conversion from the PHS 398 grant application form to the new Standard Form (SF) 424 Research and Research Related (R&R), which will REQUIRE electronic submission through Grants.gov ( http://grants.gov ).

NIH Roadmap The NIH has undertaken a major agency wide initiative, called the Roadmap, to identify major opportunities and gaps in health research that no single institute at NIH could tackle alone but that the agency as a whole must address to make the biggest impact on the progress of health research. A series of funding initiatives will be issued in Fiscal Year 2004 and beyond that seek research to fill these gaps. Some of the initiatives, such as the just-released training and supplement RFA will focus on the behavioral and social sciences. Many are written to be broadly inclusive of the full range of disciplines. Generally, if the initiative calls for behavioral science, social science is included also. Often, the contact person listed may be at an Institute that you have not dealt with in the past but since this is NIH wide, all Institutes and Centers are participating. If you run into any obstacles on this road, Dr. Virginia Cain (Phone: 301-402-1146 Fax: 301-402-1150 E-mail: Virginia_Cain@nih.gov) would be willing to serve as a con tact to try to answer questions or send you to the correct source. Please take advantage of these many funding opportunities--and encourage your colleagues to do so as well.

NIH Video The National Institutes of Health, Center for Scientific Review, has produced a video of a mock study section meeting titled "Inside the NIH Grant Review Process." Available in streaming media, the video introduces the peer review system and also includes information on what applicants can do to improve their proposals. The video can be accessed at http://www.csr.nih.gov/video/video.asp .

The video is 39-minutes and uses Windows Media software. The information on what faculty can do to improve the chance their application will receive a positive review is towards the end of the video.