Revision of NIH Policy Concerning Concurrent Support from Mentored Career Development (K) Award and a Research Grant

NIH is continuing and expanding its policy on mentored K awards to allow award recipients to hold concurrent support from their K award and a competing research grant when recognized as a Principal Investigator (PI) or subproject Director of a multi-project NIH grant. Currently mentored K award recipients in the last two years of their support period are permitted to reduce the level of effort required for the K award and replace that effort with effort on an NIH research grant or subproject provided they remain in a mentored situation (NOT-OD-04-007). The policy change expands eligible grants to include research grants obtained from any Federal agency; clarifies when the research grant may be obtained relative to the years remaining on the K award; and clarifies that status as a PI on a multiple PI award also confers eligibility. To read the entire policy, click here: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-065.html

Request for Information (RFI): To Solicit Ideas for Common Fund / Roadmap Trans-NIH Strategic Initiatives

The NIH is seeking input from the scientific community, health professionals, patient advocates, and the general public about innovative and cross - cutting initiatives to be funded through the NIH Common Fund. The NIH Common Fund / Roadmap was created by the NIH in 2004 and enacted into law by Congress through the 2006 NIH Reform Act to support cross-cutting, trans-NIH programs. The Common Fund / Roadmap supports programs that address fundamental knowledge gaps, develop transformative tools and technologies, and/or foster innovative approaches to complex problems. These programs are supported for a limited duration of 5-10 years. Long-term support is not consistent with the intent of the Common Fund / Roadmap. A limited duration keeps the fund nimble and able to respond to new opportunities and emerging challenges. It also allows the NIH to regularly test new ways of fostering innovative science. Common Fund / Roadmap programs use these 5-10 years of support to develop tools and technologies and establish new scientific paradigms which can then be adopted by the community through IC-funded awards.

Collecting these ideas is an initial step in the process of identifying a new cohort of Common Fund / Roadmap programs for Fiscal Year 2011. This RFI provides an opportunity for respondents to submit their own ideas. The NIH expects to spend $30 - 50 million per year from within the currently projected Roadmap budget for new 5-year initiatives.

To review the entire RFI, please click here: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-RM-08-014.html.

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