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NIH Grants Information

• Information for New Grantee Organizations: Welcome page created by the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER).
• Grants Policy Statement: The technical handbook for grants at NIH. (Revised April 2024)
  
• Glossary of Commonly Used Terms: Also includes acronyms and abbreviations used throughout NIH.
  
• Grant Process Overview: Learn about the steps required for an application to proceed from planning and submission through to award and closeout.
  • Webinar: NIH Grants Process: A Walk-Through for Beginners: This webinar (recorded in May 2024) offers insights into the NIH’s organizational structure and how it funds research, finding the right fit for your research, the grants process overview, peer review, NIH and applicant institution roles and responsibilities, and resources to help along the way.
  • Podcast: All About Grants: Conversations with NIH staff members designed for investigators, fellows, students, research administrators, and others interested in grant topics. In .mp3 format and updated monthly.
  • NIH updates policy on foreign subaward and consortium written agreements, Global Health Matters, September/October 2023
• Subaward information: NIH resources related to policies on subawards.

How to Apply

• Find NIH Funding (NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts): All Fogarty grants are in response to program announcements posted on Grants.gov, and are searchable using the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. To find program announcements, search using keywords from your proposed research. 
• Fogarty Programs: Listing of current grant programs. (Note: At this time, Fogarty International Center does not accept unsolicited grant applications.)
  
• NIH ASSIST (Application Submission System and Interface for Submission Tracking), a system for the preparation, submission and tracking of grant applications through Grants.gov to NIH, is available to streamline and simplify training and career development applications.
  
• NIH ASSIST training resources
• How to Apply - Application Guide: Use the application guide to submit grant applications to NIH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
  

Frequently Asked Questions

• Fogarty's FAQs: A general list of our most popular questions. This includes many questions applicable to foreign institutions.
• NIH Biosketch Format: NIH requires a new biosketch format for grant applications and progress reports submitted on or after May 25, 2021
  
• NIH Policy on Foreign Travel for NIH Grants
• Cost Considerations for Foreign Grantees
• Consortium Agreement Information for NIH Grants: This specifically relates to grants involving institutions or agencies other than that of the principal investigator.
• Information on NIH Modular Grants: If your funding opportunity announcement states that the budget should be in Modular format, this page from the Office of Extramural Research may help.
• NIH Grants Policy on Foreign and International Institutions: This includes excerpts from the NIH Grants Policy Statement pertaining to awards directly to foreign institutions, international organizations, domestic grants with foreign components, and the allowance of F&A costs for foreign and international organizations.
• NIH Extramural Response to Natural Disasters and Other Emergencies: Information for NIH applicants and grantees about accommodations and changes resulting from natural disasters and other emergencies, such as hurricanes and earthquakes.
• Enhancing Reproducibility through Rigor and Transparency: Resources to help the extramural community address rigor and transparency in NIH grant applications and progress reports.