ATTENTION!! Recent changes to the NIH appendix policy immediately affect your grant submissions

Effective January 25, 2017, the NIH appendix policy eliminates most items that investigators previously included in the application appendix. For current and future grant submissions please be sure that application appendices are consistent with the items identified in NOT-OD-16-129 (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-16-129.html).

Applications will be withdrawn and not reviewed if they are submitted with inappropriate appendix materials.

In short, the only allowable appendix materials are:

 For applications proposing clinical trials (unless the FOA provides other instructions for these materials):

• Clinical trial protocols
• Investigator's brochure from Investigational New Drug (IND), as appropriate

 For all applications:

• Blank informed consent/assent form;
• Blank surveys, questionnaires, data collection instruments;
• FOA-specified items. (NOTE: If appendix materials are required in the FOA, review criteria for that FOA will address those materials, and applications submitted without those appendix materials will be considered incomplete and will not be reviewed.)

Thank you for your attention to this important policy update.