Support and Resources
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Begun as a one-room Laboratory of Hygiene in 1887, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health research. (From the NIH mission statement)
General NIH Information
- NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices
- NIH Organizational Chart (PDF)
- Grants – Office of Extramural research
- NIH Roadmap. The purpose was to identify major opportunities and gaps in biomedical 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 medical research. It lays out a vision for a more efficient and productive system of medical research. It identifies the most compelling opportunities in three main areas: new pathways to discovery, research teams of the future, and re-engineering the clinical research enterprise.
- NIH Issued NGA's
NIH Guidelines and Policies
- NIH Guide for Grants & Contracts. The NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts is the official publication for NIH medical and behavioral research grant policies, guidelines and funding opportunities. It is also used by NIH Contracting offices and other HHS agencies, to announce their funding opportunities.
- NIH Grants Policy Statement – Table of Contents
- Developing Sponsored Research Agreements: Considerations for Recipients of NIH Research Grants and Contracts (deals with corporate sponsored research agreements)
- Final NIH Statement On Sharing Research Data (February 2003). NIH's policy to share and make available to the public the results and accomplishments of the activities that it funds. See also Sample Language – Intellectual Property and Research Tools.
- Principles & Guidelines for Recipients of NIH Research
Grants and Contracts on Obtaining and Disseminating Biomedical Research
Resources: Final Notice (December 1999)
The purpose of these Principles and Guidelines is to assist NIH funding recipients in determining 1) reasonable terms and conditions for making NIH-funded research resources available to scientists in other institutions in the public and private sectors (disseminating research tools), and 2) restrictions to accept as a condition of receiving access to research tools for use in NIH-funded research (acquiring research tools). See also Sample Language – Intellectual Property and Research Tools. - NIH Policy on Sharing of Model Organisms for Biomedical Research (May 2004). Investigators who develop model organisms (animal or biologics) must include a sharing policy or explain why the research tools cannot be shared. See also Sample Language – Intellectual Property and Research Tools.
- NIH Procedures for Handling Non-Election of Title to Patentable Biological Materials. Regarding patentable biological materials which may be licensed for commercial use without patent protection where certain terms and conditions are met.
- Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research
- Establishment of Multiple Principal Investigator Awards for the Support of Team Science Projects
- Public Access Policy. Effective April 07, 2008, University of Chicago NIH investigators are required to comply with the revised NIH Public Access Policy.
The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law. See http://researchadmin.uchicago.edu/about/announcement_publicaccess.shtml for more information, or visit the NIH website’s page on the Public Access Policy. - Converted PowerPoint Presentation on NIH Public Access Policy (PDF)
June 17, 2009, presented by Andrea Twiss-Brooks.
Assistance with Applications
- NIH Forms
- Checklists for Applicants & Grantees
- Small Business Funding Opportunities (SBIR/STTR)
- NIH Training Opportunities
- Frequently Asked Questions (NIH)
- NIH Activity Codes (PDF) (understand the components of an application number)
- NIH Modular Research Grant Applications
- Annotated RO1 Research Plan & Summary Statement
- Glossary of Terms & Acronyms
- Standard Receipt Dates
- Tutorials
- How to Prepare a Multi-Project Grant Application
- Resources for New Investigators
The NIH Review Process
NIH eRA
- NIH Commons
- eSNAP User Guide (PDF). (eSNAP allows extramural grantees to submit an electronic version of the SNAP type 5 [noncompeting] progress report through a web interface)
- eSNAP
- Grants.gov at The University of Chicago
