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NIH now requires electronic grant submission. Click on following links for pertinent information.

Parent Announcements (For Unsolicited or Investigator-Initiated Applications)

NIH and other agencies serviced by eRA Commons want your investigator-initiated applications. Electronic grant applications must be submitted in response to a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)**. We have developed Parent announcements for use by applicants who wish to submit what were formerly termed investigator-initiated or ‘unsolicited’ applications. Apply using the electronic application package for your chosen mechanism, listed in the table below. Read More About Parent Announcements. Not all Institutes and Centers participate in all FOAs. Please read announcements carefully to determine participation.

* Alert: NIH is in the process of reissuing all parent announcements. If you intend to apply for a due date of January 25 or beyond, please be sure to use the parent announcement that has a release date of December 2009 or beyond, as marked with a red asterisk. If you don’t see a new announcement for the type of grant application you’re considering – check back, it may be posted soon. See Notice NOT-OD-10-031 for more information.

Research (R) Announcements

Activity
Code(s)		 Title Announcement
Number		 Issuing
Organization		 Release
Date		 Opening Date
(SF424 Only) 		Expiration
Date
R01 * Research Project Grant (Parent R01) PA-11-260 NIH 07/22/2011 09/05/2011 09/08/2014
R03 * NIH Small Research Grant Program (Parent R03) PA-11-262 NIH 07/22/2011 09/16/2011 09/08/2014
R13, U13 NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (Parent R13/U13) PA-10-071 NIH 01/04/2010 03/12/2010 01/08/2013
R15 * Academic Research Enhancement Award (Parent R15) PA-10-070 NIH 12/24/2009 01/25/2010 01/08/2013
R21 * NIH Exploratory Developmental Research Grant Program (Parent R21) PA-11-261 NIH 07/22/2011 06/16/2011 09/08/2013


Research Training (T) Announcements

Activity
Code(s)		 Title Announcement
Number		 Issuing
Organization		 Release
Date		 Opening Date
(SF424 Only) 		Expiration
Date
T32 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants (Parent T32) PA-11-184 NIH 03/25/2011 04/25/2011 05/08/2014
T35 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grants (Parent T35) PA-11-185 NIH 03/25/2011 04/25/2011 05/08/2014


Career Development (K) Announcements

Activity
Code(s)		 Title Announcement
Number		 Issuing
Organization		 Release
Date		 Opening Date
(SF424 Only) 		Expiration
Date
K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (Parent K01) PA-11-190 NIH 04/08/2011 05/12/2011 09/08/2014
K02 Independent Scientist Award (Parent K02) PA-11-191 NIH 04/08/2011 05/12/2011 09/08/2014
K07 Academic Career Award (Parent K07) PA-11-192 NIH 04/08/2011 05/12/2011 09/08/2014
K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (Parent K08) PA-11-193 NIH 04/08/2011 05/12/2011 09/08/2014
K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (Parent K23) PA-11-194 NIH 04/08/2011 05/12/2011 09/08/2014
K24 Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (Parent K24) PA-11-195 NIH 04/08/2011 05/12/2011 09/08/2014
K25 Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award (Parent K25) PA-11-196 NIH 04/08/2011 05/12/2011 09/08/2014
K99/R00 NIH Pathway to Independence Award (Parent K99/R00) PA-11-197 NIH 04/08/2011 05/12/2011 09/08/2014


Fellowship (F) Announcements

Activity
Code(s)		 Title Announcement
Number		 Issuing
Organization		 Release
Date		 Opening Date
(SF424 Only) 		Expiration
Date
F30 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD and Other Dual Doctoral Degree Fellows (Parent F30) PA-11-110 NIH 02/10/2011 03/13/2011 05/08/2014
F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (Parent F31) PA-11-111 NIH 02/10/2011 03/13/2011 05/08/2014
F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Parent F31 - Diversity) PA-11-112 NIH 02/10/2011 03/08/2011 05/08/2014
F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows (Parent F32) PA-11-113 NIH 02/10/2011 03/08/2011 05/08/2014
F33 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Individual Senior Fellows (Parent F33) PA-11-114 NIH 02/10/2011 03/08/2011 05/08/2014


Additional Tips for Identifying Opportunities

  • Applicants may also want to search RePORTER to find out if projects in their area have been funded by NIH and what NIH Institutes and Centers have shown an interest in their area in the past. This may help narrow their search for a suitable opportunity. RePORTER is part of the Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT), which provides access to reports, data, and analyses of NIH research activities, including information on NIH expenditures and the results of NIH-supported research.
  • Don’t be afraid to contact staff at NIH Institutes/Centers (PDF - 4.5 MB) to discuss your application.

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More about Parent Announcements

An important procedural change with electronic submission of grant applications is that all applications must be submitted in response to a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)*. NIH and other HHS Agencies have developed omnibus Parent announcements for use by applicants who wish to submit what were formerly termed "unsolicited" applications. Responding to such an omnibus or umbrella Parent FOA ensures that the correct application package is used and enables NIH to receive the application from Grants.gov. This process in no way diminishes the interest of NIH Institutes and Centers in investigator-initiated, unsolicited research grant applications. Parent announcements are NIH-wide, but some NIH institutes may limit their participation, so check the announcement's statement of interest. For institute-specific opportunities in your area of science, search the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts.

While Parent announcements mark a big change in the way R01s have traditionally been received at NIH and other HHS agencies, Parent announcements are not new to NIH.  NIH has required a Parent announcement for small research grants (R03) and exploratory/developmental grants (R21) for many years. Parent announcements are now also used for conference grants (R13), AREA grants (R15), SBIR grants (R43, R44), STTR grants (R41, R42), Career Development awards (K01, K08, K23, K24, K25 and K99/R00) and Individual Fellowships (F31, F32 and F33), and will be issued for and Institutional Research Training Grants (T32 and T35) in the future. Most NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) participate in these Parent announcements. Parent announcements are not generally available for other highly specialized grant mechanisms (e.g. resource programs, construction grants, or education projects) and thus individual ICs will be issuing specific FOAs.

** Note: FOA is Grants.gov's terminology for what NIH refers to as Program Announcement (PA), Request for Application (RFA), Program Announcement with special receipt, referral and/or review consideration (PAR) and Program Announcement with a set aside (PAS).

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