Reminder: Use FORMS-I Grant Application Forms and Instructions for Due Dates on or After Jan. 25, 2025
National Institutes of Health (NIH) notice NOT-OD-25-026 reminds the applicant and recipient community that applicants must use FORMS-I application packages for due dates on or after Jan. 25, 2025 and must use FORMS-H application packages for due dates on or before Jan. 24, 2025
NIH Offers Guidance for Upcoming Changes to Fellowship Applications
Given changes to fellowship applications submitted on or after Jan. 25, 2025, the NIH Office of Extramural Research has made sponsor guidance available. Review the NIH’s fellowship sponsor guidance page to learn more about what it means to be a good sponsor, what’s changing on Jan. 25, and how sponsors can start to prepare for the application changes. Read more about the upcoming changes in the Office Of Extramural Research Nexus blog.
ORCID ID Reminder
As of May 25, 2025, and as part of the NIH’s implementation of National Security Presidential Memorandum – 33 (“NSPM-33”), NIH will require senior/key personnel on all NIH applications to use SciENcv to complete “Common Forms” (that is Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Other Support Forms). The Common Forms will have a Persistent Identifier (“PID”) section; all senior / key personnel will enter their ORCID iD into SciENcv when preparing the Common Forms as well as link their ORCID iD in their eRA Commons Profile. Read Mike Lauer’s article on ORCID adoption rates.