NIH Updates
Coming in January and May 2025
The office of Grants and Contracts, the Office of the Chief Research Informatics Officer, Strauss Health Sciences Library, and University Information Systems have been working together to prepare for NIH Forms I and changes to Common Forms.
Taking Effect January 25, 2025
NIH Forms I - Key Changes
A new attachment field for the Recruitment Plan to Enhance Diversity on the PHS 398 Research Training Program Plan for T series awards and some K awards. See NOT-OD-129.
As part of NIH efforts to improve the peer review process for NRSA Fellowship applications, there will be modifications to some sections of the PHS Fellowship Supplement Form. See NOT-OD-24-107.
NIH adoption and required use of the Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support by May 2025. See NOT-OD-24-163.
Simplified Review Framework - Key Changes
NOT-OD-24-085: This notice provides updates and implementation plans for the simplified framework for peer review of NIH research project grant applications.
Affected Activity Codes: The notice clarifies which activity codes are impacted by the new framework. These include a wide range of RPG activity codes such as R01, R03, R15, R21, U01, and others. https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/peer-review/simplifying-review/framework
- Funding Opportunities: Many funding opportunities are being reissued to include the simplified review framework. Active opportunities with due dates on or after January 25, 2025, will be expired early and reissued with the new framework.
- Application Forms: NIH is transitioning to updated application forms (FORMS-I) to support the new framework. These forms will be required for due dates on or after January 25, 2025.
- Guidance for Applicants: The notice provides guidance on navigating new and updated funding opportunities, emphasizing the importance of checking the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts for notices and reissuances.
InfoEd
Beginning in late November, NIH Forms I will be available in InfoEd and must be used for applications due on or after January 25, 2025. Proposals submitted for the January 25th deadline or later must use Forms I. If your record was made before December 1st, you will need to reselect the opportunity number to pull in the correct Forms schema. See NOT-OD-24-086 for exceptions.
Taking Effect May 25, 2025
Common Forms, ORCID ID, and SciENcv
While ORCID IDs are currently only required for Fellowship and Career Development awards, as NIH adopts Common Forms for the Bioksetch and Other Support forms both a SciENcv and ORCID ID will be required for all Senior/Key Personnel. This requirement goes into effect for all applications due on or after May 25, 2025. At that point, all Biosketch and Other Support forms must be generated using SciENcv. Attempting to use non-SciENcv generated Biosketch and Other Support documents will create an error message and prevent submission.
The Research Informatics Office (RIO) has created a dashboard to help you register for an ORCID ID, while the National Library of Medicine has created YouTube tutorials and webinars to assist you with Creating a Biosketch with SciENcv and integrating SciENcv with ORCID ID.
We strongly encourage all PIs and key personnel to be proactive with both ORCID ID and SciENcv in order to be prepared in advance of the summer submission cycle.
More to come on this important change information will be provided in upcoming RAIN meetings.
Data Management Tool
We highly recommend that you look at the free DMP tool.
- Library Guide
The Library Guide is live. It also includes links to the CRIO website. If you have any suggestions for it, please let us know.
- DMP Tool
Anyone with a CU Anschutz or CU Denver email address can sign into DMPTool and use it to begin creating a data management plan. When they sign in, they see guidance from the "Key Elements to a NIH data sharing plan" template provided by the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz). Strauss Library did not create this template, and right now, the template directs questions to Gayle Bradbeer at Auraria who has retired as of July 2024.