National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH Contacts in the Division of Sponsored Programs

Please see the DSP Staff Directory

• Announcements
• Clinicaltrials.gov
• Electronic Grant Submission
• Final Report Preparation
• Forms and Application Instructions
  • Forms/Instructions with UI Information
• NIH Grants Policy Information
• NIH Guide Listing of Funding Opportunities
• NIH Home Page
• NIH Public Access Policy
• Proposal Preparation
• Research Training and Career Development
• UI Archival Data Storage Support for NIH Data Sharing Plans 
• Other Useful Links

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Announcem​ents

See also (a) NIH News Flashes; (b) NIH Extramural Nexus bimonthly newsletter for updates on NIH policies and activities. 

• Expanding Requirement for eRA Commons IDs to All Senior/Key Personnel
• Upcoming Changes to the Biographical Sketch and Other Support Format Page
• Protecting U.S. Biomedical Intellectual Innovation
• Minimum Level of Effort for NCI-Funded Awards
• Update on NIH Continuous Submission Policy
• NIH on YouTube
• NIH Funding Strategies
• NEW - Electronic Submission Process for Administratiave Supplement Requests
• New Time Limit for NIH Resubmission Applications
• NIH/AHRQ Application Submission/Resubmission Policy
• Amended Status of Applications and Awards Involving Human Embryonic StemCells
• My NCBI Tool to Replace eRA Commons for Bibliography Management - Overview

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Clinicaltrials.gov: Registry of Federally and Privately Supported Clinical Trials

• UI Contact for Questions, Login: ct-gov@uiowa.edu or 319-335-6564.
• UI Information Site: Clinical Trials Requirements for Registration  with ClinicalTrials.gov

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Electronic Grant Submission 

• Electronic Submission of NIH Grants
• Grants.gov/Cayuse policies and procedures
• Cayuse
• NIH eRA Commons (contact DSP to register)
• Non-Competing Award Process

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Final Report Preparation

• Final Report Instructions
• Final Invention Statement (If you are completing the final report on the eRA Commons this form is not necessary. Simply answer the yes/no question)

• For federal funding, the general description of subject inventions, which must be reported to the federal government, is found in 37 C.F.R. Part 401:  

  (c) The term invention means any invention or discovery which is or may be patentable or otherwise protectable under Title 35 of the United States Code, or any novel variety of plant which is or may be protectable under the Plant Variety Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 2321 et seq. ).
  (d) The term subject invention means any invention of a contractor conceived or first actually reduced to practice in the performance of work under a funding agreement; provided that in the case of a variety of plant, the date of determination (as defined in section 41(d) of the Plant Variety Protection Act, 7 U.S.C. 2401(d)) must also occur during the period of contract performance.

Forms and Application Instructions

• All NIH Forms and Applications (Including Grants.gov and paper forms)
  
  Forms/Instructions with UI Information
  • PHS 398 Checklist (8% F&A Rate)
  • PHS 398 Checklist (54.5% F&A Rate for Research Grants)
  • PHS 398 Cover Page  
  • PHS 2590 Cover Page 
  • Sample Intellectual Property (IP) Management Plans

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NIH Grants Policy

• NIH Grants Policy Statement
• NIH Data Sharing Policy and Implementation Guidance
• NIH Policy on Late Submission of Grant Applications
• Questions and Answers on Resubmissions of NIH Research Grant Applications
• Responsible Conduct of Research

NIH Guide Listing of Funding Opportunities

• Search the NIH Guide
• Subscribe to the NIH Guide to receive table of contents via email

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NIH Home Page

• Grants and Funding Opportunities
• Institutes, Centers and Offices
• Office of Extramural Research
• Center for Scientific Review (CSR)

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Proposal Preparation

• Application Due Dates plus Review and Award Cycles
• Parent Announcements for Unsolicited or Investigator-Initiated Applications
• Person Month Conversion Chart
• Salary Cap
• NIH Data Sharing Policy and Implementation Guidance
• Individual Professional Development Plan
• Individual Development Plan
• Modular Grant Guidelines
• Grant Writing Tips Sheets
• Frequently Asked Questions about Grant Applications
• Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR)
• Certification Letter for F31 Diversity applications - Faculty or Department can contact Diane Bedell.
• Study Record: PHS Human Subjects and Clinical Trials Information - blank pdf form

• Required Use of the xTRACT System to Prepare Data Tables for Training Grant Research Performance Progress Reports in FY 2020

• Table 3 training data table
• Table 3 participating personnel as shown in last new or competitive application
• S10 Table (grants awarded or installed in past five years)

• Institutional Commitment - Prevent Discriminatory Harassment

• Per the most recent NIH notice https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-19-056.html “...the information regarding an institutional commitment to ensuring that proper policies, procedures, and oversight are in place to prevent discriminatory harassment and other discriminatory practices is to be included in the same letter with the information about the applicant institutional commitment to the planned program.”

  To meet this new requirement we offer the a letter template.  Please work with your pertinent Dean or DEO to add the departmental commitment information as applicable, obtain the Dean or DEO signature and email the letter to nih@uiowa.edu.  The Division of Sponsored Programs (DSP) will copy to letterhead and obtain the VPR’s signature.

  Institutional Commitment - Family-friendly Environments

• Should an NIH funding announcement state an "institutional support letter must also include an additional, separate paragraph that describes the institution’s efforts to provide family-friendly environments, accommodations and leave policies" see here for text you can add to the letter. If space is limited you can omit the Charter Committee information.

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Research Training and Research Career Development

• NIH Extramural Research Training Opportunities
• NIH Extramural Training Funds: Links to NIH Institutes, Centers, and other Components
• K Kiosk - Information about NIH Career Development Awards
• T Kiosk - Information about NRSA Training Grants Funding Opportunities
• NRSA Stipend Levels & Other Information
• NRSA Budget Template

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UI Archival  Data Storage Support for NIH Data Sharing Plans

• Using Iowa Research Online for data management
  For additional information: lib-ir@uiowa.edu
   
• NIH Resource Sharing Plan:  Data Sharing Plan
  Investigators seeking $500,000 or more in direct costs (exclusive of consortium F&A) in any year are expected to include a brief 1-paragraph description of how final research data will be shared, or explain why data-sharing is not possible. Specific [NIH] Funding Opportunity Announcements [FOAs] may require that all applications include this information regardless of the dollar level. Applicants are encouraged to read the specific opportunity carefully and discuss their data-sharing plan with their program contact at the time they negotiate an agreement with the Institute/Center (IC) staff to accept assignment of their application. 
  
  See also:
  Final NIH Statement on Sharing Research Data
  NIH Data Sharing Policy [web page, FAQs etc.]

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Other Useful Links

• NIH Podcasts
• NIH Acronym List
• All about Grants Podcasts
• NIH phonebook and email
• Award Data/Success Rates/Funding Trends (RePORT)
• RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER, formerly CRISP)
• NIH Study Sections
• Inside the NIH Grant Review Process (Video)
• NIH Activity Codes, Organization Codes, and Definitions used in Extramural Programs
• Resources for New and Early Stage Investigators
• SBIR/STTR
• NIH Data Sharing Plan - UI Resources for Archival Storage of Data
• Success Rates by NIH Institute  and Success Rates by NIH Mechanism

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