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If you are the recipient of a grant from the NIH, there is a great deal of information that your organization will need in order to be successful stewards of federal funds. The NIH Welcome Wagon Letter provides information and resources for new recipient organizations on how to manage the award. The information provided below is a brief overview of selected monitoring and reporting requirements.

The Application Submission System & Interface for Submission Tracking (ASSIST) system is used to prepare and submit grant applications electronically to NIH and other Public Health Service agencies. Check out this step by step guide for using ASSIST.

Choose the type of application you plan to submit from the chart below. Learn about specific submission requirements, and be sure to follow them, as well as the instructions in the application forms and the funding opportunity announcement. The type of application you submit can impact.

Peer review meeting in progress (Photo courtesy of Center for Scientific Review).

The PHS Human Subjects and Clinical Trials Information Form is used to collect information on:.

Recipients submit regular scientific progress reports, financial reports, invention reports, and final progress reports as part of the management and oversight of their grant awards.

The NIH announces new review criteria for research project applications involving clinical trials (September 21-2017) Additional review questions will be effective for all clinical trial applications for research project grants and cooperative agreements that are submitted for funding consideration for due dates on or after January 25, 2018. For the evaluation of those applications, new questions will be added to the existing review questions, which will not change for research project applications that do not involve clinical trials. Some Program Announcements and Requests for Applications may include FOA-specific questions in addition to those below.

Provides data and reporting support for grants processing for NIH and other agencies (HHS Operating Divisions and the Veterans’ Administration) and works with the user community to provide efficient techniques for the conduct of extramural business. This effort is intended to guide the management of the NIH research portfolio and improve the nation's health.

Sharing scientific data accelerates biomedical research discovery, enhances research rigor and reproducibility, provides accessibility to high-value datasets, and promotes data reuse for future research studies. Under the NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy, investigators are empowered to choose the most appropriate methods for sharing scientific data. Learn more about methods for data sharing and selecting data repositories.

It's a major undertaking-preparing and submitting an NIH biomedical research grant application to support your research training needs or pursue your scientific research. This highly competitive endeavor can be subverted by poor planning, preparation, disorganization and lackluster presentation. The successful recipient allows ample time to plan, organize and write a grant application that competes well in the peer review process and ultimately earns funding.

When NIH awards a grant, we are formalizing our partnership with the grantee to ensure compliance with federal laws, regulations and policies. This protects the integrity of the overall scientific endeavor. This page describes what happens between peer review through award for applicants whose applications have been deemed highly meritorious in the scientific peer review process.

The majority of competing applications now require electronic application submission. The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to which you are applying will identify whether you must submit electronically or use paper submission. Note that paper submissions require use of the PHS 398 application form, while electronic submission requires the SF424 (R&R) application.

Welcome to the NIH’s Financial Operations Website. On this page you will find the most recent information about NIH’s financial operations plans for the fiscal year, links to the financial management plans of NIH institutes and centers, and answers to frequently asked questions. We hope that you will find the information on this site helpful.

Learn about the steps required for an application to proceed from planning and submission through to award and closeout. Drill down to learn more about each step in the process for guidance that can maximize your understanding of the grants process and help you submit a successful grant application. VIDEO OVERVIEW: NIH Grants Process Grants Process Overview (PDF, 908 KB).