NIAID Funding News, February 6, 2019

February 6, 2019 NIAID Funding News

Read this full issue online at http://www.niaid.nih.gov/grants-contracts/funding-news-notices

Feature Articles 

Find FY 2018 Application and Award Totals in the NIH Data Book

We lay out NIAID’s R01-equivalent and R21 application counts, award totals, and success rates over the last few years and make a few observations along the way.

Opportunities and Resources

“REAP” the Benefits of a New FOA, Get To Know a Different “AREA”

Learn about two initiatives, the Research Enhancement Award Program and the Academic Research Enhancement Award, that support small-scale research projects for faculty members at specified institutions.

Apply To Advance Research in Rare Neurological Conditions

Help fill gaps in our understanding of Acute Flaccid Myelitis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and other acute neurological conditions of muscle weakness and paralysis triggered by infectious agents or related immune responses.

Opportunity for NIAID Funding on Bioengineering Research

Send an application if you can propose a multidisciplinary approach to solve a biomedical problem by integrating, optimizing, validating, translating, or otherwise accelerating promising bioengineering tools, methods, and techniques.

In The News

Registration for NIH Regional Seminar in Baltimore Is Open Now

Join NIH scientific review officers, program officers, and grants management specialists at the Spring 2019 NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration in Baltimore, Maryland, from May 15 to 17.

Special Timeline Eliminated for Next-Round R01 Resubmissions for New Investigators

NIH has eliminated the special timeline for new investigator (NI) applications that allowed NIs to resubmit an R01 application for the very next review round.

Advice Corner

Tune Into Networks for Possible Collaborative Opportunities

When you go to our Networks webpage, you’ll see that NIAID either funds or participates in a wide variety of networks, consortia, clinical trial programs, and research collaborations.

Reader Questions

• “Must I obtain prior approval to reduce effort during a no-cost extension?”
• “Can I add a submitted (but not yet accepted) publication in the Publication List linked to a renewal application?”

New Funding Opportunities

• RFA-AI-19-011, Computational Models of Immunity (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
• RFA-AI-19-001, HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Networks Laboratory Centers (UM1 Clinical Trial Required)
• RFA-AI-19-002, HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Networks Statistical and Data Management Centers (SDMC) (UM1 Clinical Trial Required)
• RFA-AI-19-003, HIV/AIDS Adult Therapeutics Clinical Trials Network Leadership and Operations Center (UM1 Clinical Trial Required)
• RFA-AI-19-004, HIV/AIDS Maternal, Adolescent and Pediatric Therapeutics Clinical Trials Network Leadership and Operations Center (UM1 Clinical Trial Required)
• RFA-AI-19-005, HIV Prevention Clinical Trials Network Leadership and Operations Center (UM1 Clinical Trial Required)
• RFA-AI-19-006, HIV Vaccines Clinical Trials Network Leadership and Operations Center (UM1 Clinical Trial Required)

See other announcements at Opportunities & Announcements.

Send suggestions or comments to deaweb@niaid.nih.gov.