PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Office of Research and Project Administration
4 New South Bldg., P.O. Box 36, Princeton, NJ  08544

TO: All Faculty and Department Managers

DATE:           October 23, 2009

FROM:           Jeffrey Friedland, ORPA Director

SUBJECT:     NIH Issues Clarification on Timing and Page Limits for Restructured
Application Forms and Instructions that are required for Due Dates on or
after January 25, 2010

NIH Issues Clarification on Timing and Page Limits for Restructured Application Forms and Instructions that are required for Due Dates on or after January 25, 2010:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-10-002.html

Over the next few months, NIH will be issuing new parent announcements with new language and new application packages. Each updated FOA will include a link to the archived version of the current FOA.

From now until early February, applicants must carefully select which version of the FOA and application package they should be using.

· Applications due before 1/25/10 must use the current application packages and instructions.

· Applications due on or after 1/25/10 must use the new application packages and instructions.

· Applicants eligible for continuous submission have until 2/7/10 to submit R01, R21 and R34 AIDS applications that would otherwise have been due on 1/7/10, using the current application.

The current application package may be provided in the archived version of the newly revised FOA.

Some FOA’s will be terminated instead of updated. Therefore, before submitting an application the applicant should be sure to verify that the FOA is still active.

Additional information on changes to the application structure and length, as well as details on the alignment of the application with review criteria for Training (T), Career Development (K), and Research Education (R25) applications may be found at the Enhancing Peer Review Web site:

http://enhancing-peer-review.nih.gov/index.html.

Please distribute as appropriate. If you have any questions, please contact your ORPA representative.

Jeffrey Friedland, Director
Office of Research & Project Administration
4 New South
Phone: 609-258-3090
Fax: 609-258-1159
Email: jfried@princeton.edu