June 19, 2019 NIAID Funding News

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

Feature Articles

Make Your Own Match by Submitting an Investigator-Initiated Application

A large percentage of the research NIAID funds is investigator-initiated, so if you come up empty searching for solicited request for applications announcements in your area of expertise, the next step is to plan an investigator-initiated application.

Opportunities and Resources

A Fresh Opportunity To Join the Immunobiology of Xenotransplantation Cooperative Research Program (IXCRP)

We seek research proposals to develop and evaluate preclinical swine-to-nonhuman primate models of pancreatic islet, kidney, heart, lung, or liver xenotransplantation.

Two FOAs, One Topic: Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health

Both opportunities support innovative approaches to identifying, understanding, and developing strategies for overcoming barriers to adopting, adapting, integrating, scaling-up, and sustaining evidence-based interventions, tools, policies, and guidelines.

Reissued R34 Helps You Plan Your Own Clinical Trial

The R34 can help you gather critical early feedback on your proposed trial’s rationale and protocol design, which are needed before you apply for one of our Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trial funding opportunity announcements.

Apply to the Small Business R44 on Pluripotent Stem Cell Development

NIH will fund small business innovative research Phase II grants to develop novel, reliable, and cost-effective methods to standardize and increase the utility of human induced pluripotent stem cells.

In The News

NIGMS-Managed HIV/AIDS Basic Research Transitions to NIAID

The portfolio shift will improve scientific coordination, prioritization, and efficiency of using and managing HIV/AIDS dollars traditionally allocated to NIGMS.

Step One to an R15 Award: Verify Your Institution’s Eligibility

Before you set your sights on applying for a research enhancement award (R15), you first need to verify that your institution is eligible—a critical step that new investigators sometimes overlook.

NIAID New Innovators Awards Are Tailored for Postdocs

Through a new opportunity, we aim to support post-doctoral investigators of exceptional creativity who propose highly innovative, bold new research.

Using xTRACT: What Was an Option Is Now a Requirement

Starting with Research Performance Progress Reports due on or after October 1, 2019, you must create the required training data tables using the Extramural Trainee Reporting and Career Tracking (xTRACT) module.

Advice Corner

NIH Dissemination Plan Covers ClinicalTrials.gov Compliance, Not Publishing

Some applicants are confusing the dissemination plan—which describes how the applicant will ensure compliance with the requirements of ClinicalTrials.gov—with the resource sharing plan or the public access policy.