The National Institutes of Health require electronic submission of proposals. OSP formats and submits proposals to NIH using Cayuse Proposals.
If this is your first time submitting to NIH, please complete the eRA Commons Registration Form and send it to Sam Wolverton at wolvertons@montclair.edu.
A new version of NIH’s General Instructions for NIH and Other PHS Agencies is now available for proposals with due dates on and after May 25, 2020.
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Proposal Preparation
- NIH Grant Application Guide – “Filtered views” are also available for each grant program
- NIH Proposal Components Being revised–please check back
- NIH Modular Budget – 5 Year
- Plan Your Application
- How to Apply
- Write Your Research Plan
- Types of Grant Programs
- Contacting Staff at the NIH Institutes and Centers
- Standard Due Dates for Competing Applications
- Annotated Funding Opportunity Announcement
- Table of Page Limits
- Format Attachments
- Developing an NIH Budget
- New and Early Stage Investigator Policies
- Rigor and Reproducibility
- Resource Page for NIH Grant Applicants by Patty Mabry
- Q&A with Dr. Keith Crutcher, former NIH Scientific Research Officer
Processes and Procedures
- Grants Process Overview
- Peer Review Process
- NIH Center for Scientific Review
- Tracking Your Application
Templates and Samples
- NIH Biosketch Form and Sample
- SciENcv – online tool to create biosketches
- Sample Applications – including R01s, R03s and R21s
- Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) (R15)