Agency Specific Tools

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH uses activity codes (e.g. R01, F31, P50, etc.) to differentiate the wide variety of research-related programs it supports. Each type of NIH grant program has its own set of instructions and eligibility criteria.

Unless specified in an NIH funding announcement, proposals to NIH should be submitted electronically via  eRA ASSIST.

Proposals must be submitted in accordance with the funding announcement and the instructions found in NIH’s General Application Guide.

Other NIH Resources

NIH Deadlines
NIH Develop Your Budget
NIH Guidance on Salary Limitation for Grants and Cooperative Agreements FY 2025
NIH Page limits
NIH Salary Cap Summary (FY 1990 – Present)
SF424 (NIH) Guide

How to apply / eRA Commons

Preparing Your Single-project Application Using ASSIST Preparing Your Multi-project Application Using ASSIST ASSIST Online Help ASSIST User Guide eRA Commons Help eRA Commons FAQ’s NIH application guide NIH Policies and Guidance ASSIST QuickCard Principal Investigator (PI) registration

ASSIST: Electronic system used to prepare and submit grant applications to NIH and other Public Health Service agencies.

Department of Energy – Office of Science (OS)

Unless specified in the broad agency or funding opportunity announcement, proposals to ONR must be submitted electronically via Grants.gov Workspace.

ONR’s website provides many resources related to grant and contract proposals, as well as standard terms and conditions that can be expected with a resulting award.

Current ONR funding opportunities (including the current Long Range Broad Agency Announcement) can be found here.

Department of Energy – Office of Science (OS)

• DOE Office of Science proposals are typically submitted electronically via Grants.gov Workspace.
• After submission, they are inserted into the DOE Portfolio Analysis and Management system (PAMS).
  • The Principal Investigator, Authorized Representative, and Point of Contact on the application will received an email from PAMS once the proposal is ready for viewing in the system. This typically occurs after DOE has assigned a Program Manager to the application.
• Resources related to proposal preparation and grant guidelines can be found on the OS website.

NASA

Unless specified in the funding announcement, proposals to NASA are submitted electronically via Grants.gov  Workspace or NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES).

Tools and tips on using NSPIRES can be found on the NSPIRES Tutorials and User Guides webpage.

eBRAP

The Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) Electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP) is designed to allow Principal Investigators (PIs) to submit their pre-applications electronically and view and edit the contents of their pre-applications and full applications. A pre-application is required for all applications submitted to CDMRP and can only be submitted in eBRAP. Full applications are submitted through Grants.gov after which they are inserted into the eBRAP portal.

eBrap Submission Portal

For more details visit the eBRAP User Guide.

Grants.gov

Apply for Grants using Workspace Grants.gov Support Grants.gov standard due dates Grants.gov QuickCard

Grants.gov: Electronic system used for single access proposal submission to 26 Federal grant-making agencies; using Workspace.

Proposal Central

Proposal Central Help Proposal Central FAQ’s Questions? Contact your Grant Officer about proposal preparation Contact NU-RES-Help for application support assistance

Proposal Central: An e-grantmaking website shared by many government, non-profit, and private grant-making organizations.

SciENcv

SciENcv Homepage Using SciENcv FAQs General reference to Access, Create, Edit, Delete, Share, Download and Add Delegates An Update to SciENcv, the Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae SciENcv: Integrating with ORCID You can email NCBI Help desk at [email protected] for general information. You can also call the NCBI at (301) 496 2475.

SciENcv: A researcher profile system for all individuals who apply for, receive or are associated with research investments from federal agencies. SciENcv is available in My NCBI.

ORCiD

ORCiD Homepage Visit ORCID for Researchers for more information from ORCID on how to get the most from your ORCID iD View a sample ORCID Record Watch a video on how ORCID works

ORCiD: The ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication as well as ORCID’s website and services to look up authors and their bibliographic output (and other user-supplied pieces of information)