Extensions for Early Career Scientists Whose Career Trajectories have been Significantly Impacted by COVID-19
NIH has issued Guide Notice No. NOT-OD-21-052, to support early-career scientists whose career trajectories may have been significantly affected by the pandemic. NIH is providing an opportunity for recipients in their last year of NIH Fellowship (“F”) and NIH Career Development (“K”) awards who have been impacted by COVID-19 to request extensions. No-cost Extensions – For Fellowships […]
Special Exception to the NIH/AHRQ/NIOSH Post-Submission Material Policy During the COVID 19 Pandemic
As announced in Notice NOT-OD-20-123, NIH, AHRQ and NIOSH have provided an exception to the policy for post-submission materials (NOT-OD-19-083) for applications submitted for the January 2021 council (beginning with applications submitted for the May 25, 2020 due date for Fall 2020 review meetings). A one-page update with preliminary data as post-submission materials will be […]
Reminder to include COVID-19 impacts/disruptions to Sponsors in progress reports
NIH has issued clear guidance that COVID-19 impacts and disruptions to their funded projects should be reported in your next progress report (RPPR) submission. This is covered in detail in NIH’s COVID-19 FAQs (see Section IV). While other sponsors have not necessarily issued clear guidance as NIH, we believe this is a best practice to follow […]