Notices, Updates, and Reminders

NIH NOT-OD-25-085 (4/3/25) - Guidance on Salary Limitation for Grants and Cooperative Agreements FY 2025

IMPORTANT - NIH F- and T-series (Fellowship and Training proposals/awards):  

• If applying to a parent Fellowship opportunity for the April 8 or May 7, 2025 standard due date, you must use FORMS-H application forms and instructions.
• If applying to a non-parent Fellowship opportunity, you must use FORMS-I application forms and instructions.
  
• Training grant proposals - Recruitment Plans to Enhance Diversity are no longer required.
• Training grant proposals - FORMS-I Training data tables 6a, 6b, and 7 have been revised to remove calculations for % underrepresented minorities. This link has information new as of 3/18/25.
• Training grant reporting - A Trainee Diversity Report for institutional training grants, career development awards, and most research education grants is no longer required in Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPRs) and should not be included.

New NIH resource:  Implementation of New Initiatives and Policies - Keep up with the "status of changes impacting NIH grants process and plans for implementing new initiatives and policies."  One highlight - Forms I application instructions have been updated as of March 2025.

Effective 3/4/25: Use the Subaward Request whether the funding source is internal or a sponsored award.

Effective 2/27/25: Blanket Intellectual Property Waiver Clarifications & KR Certification Update

Training/Guidance:  NIH Biographical Sketch and Other Support Changes - A Guide to NIH’s changes.​ REQUEST ACCESS to this file: NIH Bio Sketch and OS Changes 5.25.25.pptx 
Learn how to obtain an ORCiD ID, log into ScENcv, and link to eRA Commons. The NIH has postponed the implementation date for these new forms.