Office of Research and Project Administration

NIH will be updating certain Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) over the next several weeks. These FOAs are associated with applications that still use the paper PHS 398 forms but the FOAs must be transitioned to the Adobe compliant system, even though these FOAs do not yet require the use of the new Adobe-based forms.

When NIH transitions these opportunities, Grants.gov will automatically generate an email message regarding opening and closing dates, which may lead applicants to believe that the FOA has been closed when, in fact, the FOA is still active. 

NIH has not been able to suppress these messages and therefore advises applicants to disregard the message and check the NIH Guide instead.  Applicants can verify that their FOA is still active by searching the NIH Guide (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html) or Grants.gov to locate the opportunity of interest.

Please see NOT-OD-9-022 (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-022.html) below for details.

NIH to Migrate Approximately 100 FOAs in Early Dec; Applicants Will Receive Automated E-mail from Grants.gov

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Notice Number: NOT-OD-09-022

Key Dates
Release Date:  December 1, 2008

Issued by
National Institutes of Health (NIH), http://www.nih.gov
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), http://www.ahrq.gov/
Center for Disease Control and Prevention/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, (CDC/NIOSH)    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), http://www.fda.gov

PURPOSE:
The purpose of this notice is to advise grant applicants that they may receive automated email messages from Grants.gov regarding a limited number of Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) that require PHS 398 paper applications. Approximately 100 FOAs active February 1, 2009 and beyond will be migrated by NIH into a new Adobe based system as required by Grants.gov in early December 2008.   Please note that these FOAs must be transitioned to the Adobe compliant system, even though they do not yet require the use of the new Adobe-based forms.

When NIH transitions these opportunities, Grants.gov will automatically generate an email message regarding opening and closing dates, which may lead applicants to believe that the FOA has been closed when, in fact, the FOA is still active. It will be closed in the legacy system and immediately reposted in the new system.  NIH has not been able to suppress these messages and therefore advises applicants to disregard the message and check the NIH Guide instead.  Applicants can verify that their FOA is still active by searching the NIH Guide (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html) or Grants.gov to locate the opportunity of interest.

Related Guide Notices:
Transition schedule for NIH/AHRQ/CDC/NIOSH/FDA to Adobe-based Forms (September 22, 2008)
NIH/AHRQ Set Transition to Adobe for Dec. 2008 (May 23, 2008)

Inquiries

Questions about this Notice should be directed to:

Grants Information
Office of Extramural Research
National Institutes of Health
Phone: 301-435-0714
TTY: 301-451-5936
Email: grantsinfo@nih.gov