Recent Changes to the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act Section

Updated Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators to remove outdated questions and links to those questions:

• Can a PI request a one- or two-year ARRA administrative supplement for 2009 through July 17?
• How do I know if my application would qualify for a two-year award from stimulus funds?
• When will NIAID start issuing ARRA awards?
• Should I submit just-in-time information now or only when requested?
• If I am preparing an R01 application now for a deadline during FY 2009, can it be considered for stimulus funds if it is within the 25 percentile?
• If I accept a two-year ARRA R01 and then learn that my resubmission scored below the 12 percentile and is eligible for a regular R01, can I terminate the ARRA award and accept the traditional R01?
• If I submit a request for a two-year administrative supplement, does the two-year period have to end on the same date as the parent grant?

Renamed pages to reflect the passage of time:

• How NIAID Will Use the Stimulus Money renamed to How NIAID Is Spending the Stimulus Money.
• NIAID's Introduction to the Recovery Act renamed to NIAID's Response to the Recovery Act.

Updated NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act to remove outdated section of What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds and links to that section: Send Just-in-Time Info Promptly.

Updated NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act to remove outdated sections of Opportunities for NIAID Applicants and links to those sections:

• For RFAs, You May Be Able to Reuse an Existing Application
• Opportunity List
• New Investigators

Updated What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds to remove outdated asterisk for ARRA Reporting Table that explained the grace period for reporting after the October 10, 2009, deadline.

Updated Opportunities for NIAID Applicants to note expiration of Protection of Human Health by Immunology and Vaccines.

New asterisk for ARRA Reporting Table on What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds to explain grace period for reporting after the October 10, 2009, deadline.

Updated When do grantees report their use of Recovery Act funds? on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators to reflect that the first reporting deadline has passed.

Updated the following pages to reflect change in policy allowing transfers of ARRA grant:

• Grants Policy Differences Between ARRA and Other Grants
• Can I transfer an ARRA award from one institution to another if I relocate? on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators

Updated Opportunities for NIAID Applicants to note expiration of Core Facility Renovation, Repair, and Improvement.

• Can I take a no-cost extension of an ARRA award?
• I have an ARRA administrative supplement to retain a postdoctoral fellow. Can I hire a research technician if the postdoc moves to a new position?

Updated Opportunities for NIAID Applicants to note expiration of BRDG-SPAN and SBIR Catalyst.

New questions on Special ARRA Requirements questions and answers:

• Where do I report my data?
• Given the extensive reporting requirements for ARRA awards, is it acceptable to budget for administrative support (salary and fringe benefits)?

New story in ARRA Success Stories from Dr. Irving Coy Allen.

New story in ARRA Success Stories from Drs. La Rosa and Limaye.

Updated What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds with a due date of October 10, 2009, for the quarterly report.

Updated What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds with the following:

• New section, Additional Progress Report Requirements.
• Emphasized the requirement to report any ARRA funds remaining at the end of the award as an unobligated balance.
• Due date of October 2009 for the quarterly report in response to the NIH Guide notice Recovery Act of 2009: Revised NIH Award Terms.

• Updated What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds with a due date of October 10, 2009, for the quarterly report.

• How Have ARRA Funds Helped You? -- share your successes, both big and small, with us and your community.
• ARRA Success Stories -- on this page we will post stories from NIAID-supported investigators who benefited from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding.

New questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• Can I get more than one ARRA grant? 
• If my institution submitted my request several weeks ago, how do I know that it is being processed?
• After I am awarded an ARRA grant what are the expectations?

Updated questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• How do you determine the funding level for an ARRA award?
• What is the page limit for requesting a supplement?

New funding opportunities:

• Recovery Act Limited Competition: Biomedical Research, Development, and Growth to Spur the Acceleration of New Technologies (BRDG-SPAN) Pilot Program
• Recovery Act Limited Competition: Small Business Catalyst Awards for Accelerating Innovative Research
• Recovery Act Limited Competition: Protection of Human Health by Immunology and Vaccines

New questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• Can I transfer an ARRA award from one institution to another if I relocate?
• For equipment that I need immediately, may I purchase it from the parent grant now and pay with the supplement later?
• If my institution submitted my request several weeks ago, how do I know that it is being processed?
• Would an R01 submitted in FY 2010 that ranks between 12 and 25 percentile be eligible for an ARRA R56-Bridge?

New question on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• How are you funding R01 applications responding to an RFA with ARRA monies?

Updated NIAID Participation in NIH ARRA Opportunities to note that Research and Research Infrastructure “Grand Opportunities” and Supporting New Faculty Recruitment to Enhance Research Resources through Core Centers expired.

Updated Grand Opportunities Topics for NIAID to remove details about the opportunity.

New question on Recovery Act -- Extramural Staff Questions and Answers:

• Can ARRA grant budgets include direct costs to address ARRA administrative and reporting requirements?

Updated For RFAs, You May Be Able to Reuse an Existing Application to remind investigators that they have to receive their summary statement before using an unsuccessful RFA as an investigator-initiated application.

Updated Challenge Topics for NIAID with note that investigators may submit unsuccessful Challenge Grant applications as investigator-initiated applications for other grant types.

New questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• How do you determine the funding level for an ARRA award?
• How will NIH review Challenge Grants?
• When can I see my Challenge Grant application's overall impact/priority score in the Commons?
• How many Challenge Grant awards does NIH plan to make?

Updated Where can I find a general description of opportunities funded through the Recovery Act? to include NIAID Participation in NIH ARRA Opportunities .

New staff-only NIAID Challenge Grant Topics with table describing Challenge Grant topics. Added link to the page in Recovery Act -- Extramural Staff Questions and Answers and Challenge Topics for NIAID.

New questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• How can I apply for a Challenge Grant?
• Can I use my Challenge Grant topic for another funding opportunity?
• When will NIH review and award Challenge Grants?

New on NIAID Participation in NIH ARRA Opportunities : three RFAs that NIAID is not participating in:

• NCMHD Community Participation in Health Disparities Intervention Research Planning Phase (R24)
• NCMHD Exploratory Centers of Excellence (P20)
• NCMHD Dissertation Research Award to Increase Diversity (R36)

Updated Deadlines by Funding Year on Details on NIAID's ARRA Administrative Supplements to clarify deadlines and advise applicants that it is unlikely we will have money left for FY 2009 supplements the closer we get to the FY 2009 deadline of July 17.

New information on how to apply for administrative supplements and renamed "Application Submission Instructions" to Application Instructions on Details on NIAID's ARRA Administrative Supplements.

New questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• If I submit my supplement application for the July 17, 2009, due date, what start and end dates should I use?
• Is NIAID awarding ARRA supplements for career reentry R01s?
• What is the page limit for requesting a supplement?
• Can I get more than one supplement for a grant?
• If I get an ARRA R01, can I apply for a diversity supplement?
• If I get a two-year R01, will I be able to carry over the ARRA funds?
• When will NIAID start issuing ARRA awards?

New questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• Can a PI request a one- or two-year ARRA administrative supplement for 2009 through July 17?
• Do I need to submit revised Specific Aims and a revised budget if I get a one-year R56-Bridge award?
• How do I apply for my ARRA award after I receive your request?

Expanded questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• What's different about a grant awarded using Recovery Act funds?
• Do I conduct my research differently using Recovery Act funds?
• How do I know if my application would qualify for a two-year award from stimulus funds?

Reorganized Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators to add a page for Supplements questions and answers.

New on NIAID Participation in NIH ARRA Opportunities : added expiration dates (expired opportunities are in bold) and contact information.

New funding opportunities Recovery Act Limited Competition for NIH Grants: Research and Research Infrastructure “Grand Opportunities” and NOT-AI-09-031, the April 22, 2009 Guide notice for NIAID participation on:

• Opportunity List on Opportunities for NIAID Applicants
• NIAID Participation in NIH ARRA Opportunities

Updated pages throughout the site to reflect the expiration of NIH notices NOT-OD-09-058 and NOT-OD-09-083 on competing supplements (revisions) on April 21.

Changed answer to question on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

If I accept a two-year ARRA R01 but then learn that my resubmission scored below the 12 percentile, can I terminate the ARRA R01?

Updated Opportunities for NIAID Applicants:

• Recovery Act Limited Competition: Academic Research Enhancement Award

Updated NIAID Participation in NIH ARRA Opportunities :

• Recovery Act Limited Competition: Academic Research Enhancement Award
• Recovery Act 2009 Limited Competition: Enabling National Networking of Scientists and Resource Discovery (NIAID is not participating)

New questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• Are R56-Bridge awards eligible for ARRA supplements?
• For an R01, can an administrative supplement support a PI’s salary or can it cover only salary for newly hired employees?

Expanded questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• Are there restrictions on the amount a PI can request for equipment?

New questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• If I accept a two-year ARRA R01 but then learn that my resubmission scored below the 12 percentile, can I terminate the ARRA R01?
• If I submit a request for a two-year administrative supplement, does the two years have to end on the same date as the parent grant?
• Are there restrictions on the amount a PI can request for equipment?

Updated Funding Range for ARRA Awards on How NIAID Is Spending the Stimulus Money to reflect new policy on R56-Bridge awards.

Updated What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds and Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators with new information on carryover and reporting requirements.

Reorganized Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators into the following:

• Table of Contents for All Recovery Act Questions
• Individual Question and Answer Pages:
  • Background Information
  • Getting Recovery Act Funding
  • Special ARRA Requirements
  • Conducting Research
  • Funding Opportunities
  • After the Stimulus Ends

Updated this page to note that the list of ARRA NIH Guide announcements is on Special Announcements.

Updated Special Reporting Requirements on What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds with a link to the NOT-OD-09-080 Guide notice for additional information on reporting requirements.

New Grants Policy Differences Between ARRA and Other Grants page.

Updated Details on NIAID's ARRA Competing Supplements with new details about the research funded by competing supplements.

New questions on Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• When can I request a no-cost extension if I am toward the end of my grant?
• Will NIAID award or extend fellowships and career awards from ARRA funds?
• Are small businesses eligible for ARRA funds including supplements?
• If I have an ARRA award, can I apply for an administrative supplement?
• Does the extension have to stay within the scope?

• What do you mean by significant unexpended balances for administrative supplements? Is a balance greater than 25 percent of the current year's total approved budget significant?
• Can medical students be supported through the NIH notice: Administrative Supplements Providing Summer Research Experiences for Students and Science Educators?
• My application was assigned to NIAMS as primary institute and NIAID as secondary institute. Whom should I contact to have my application considered for stimulus funding?
• Can I request one or two years of funding if I am in the first year of a no-cost extension for my R01?

New Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• Can career awardees get ARRA supplements?

New information at Opportunity List on Opportunities for NIAID Applicants to remind organizations that they must register in both Grants.gov and eRA Commons in order to apply for most NIH grants.

Updated Details on NIAID's ARRA Administrative Supplements with new information on ARRA administrative supplements during a no-cost extension.

New information at Before You Can Get Stimulus Money on What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds to detail file format and headers to use if your Specific Aims must be deleted or significantly renegotiated.

Added link from New Investigators in Opportunities for NIAID Applicants to Financial Management Plan, which now states that NIAID is funding new and early-stage investigators (from the FY 2009 appropriation) as follows:

• 12 to 16 percentile -- up to five years.
• 16 to 25 percentile -- up to four years.

New Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• Can I get an ARRA award to extend my grant?

Revised Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators:

• If I get a two-year R01 through Recovery Act funds, can I resubmit my original application?
• If I am preparing an R01 grant application now for a deadline during FY 2009, can it be considered for stimulus funds if it falls within the 25 percentile?

Updated NIAID Supplements Through the Economic Recovery Act and Details on NIAID's ARRA Administrative Supplements to note that in the case of a no-cost extension, your grant has to be active at the time of the supplement award. A no-cost extension will not be processed earlier than 90 days before the end of your project.

Updated NIAID Supplements Through the Economic Recovery Act to remove cost limit to administrative supplements.

Updated Details on NIAID's ARRA Administrative Supplements with the following information:

• Clarified career development award supplement limits.
• Clarified that research funded by the supplement must be within the scope of the parent grant’s approved activities and aims.
• Clarified that we will consider all supplement proposals that fit within the parent grant's scope of research.
• Added NIAID contact for summer supplements questions.

New Funding Range for ARRA Awards section on How NIAID Is Spending the Stimulus Money.

New Details on NIAID's ARRA Competing Supplements page.

Updated NIAID Supplements Through the Economic Recovery Act with new information on competing supplements.

New Details on NIAID's ARRA Administrative Supplements page.

• Are equipment purchases through ARRA supplements subject to the Buy American Act?
• What happens if my application is assigned to NIAID for an opportunity that NIAID isn't participating in?
• Is there a dollar limit to how much I can request for an administrative supplement?
• If I get a two-year R01 through Recovery Act funds, can I resubmit my original application?
• If I missed the opportunity to get a two-year ARRA award, what happens if I’m outside the payline next year? Could the payline be different next fiscal year?
• I don't see my research area on the Challenge Grant list -- what should I do?
• Why do you refer to two-year awards when September 2010 is only one and a half years away?

• If I'm applying for an opportunity, can I reuse an existing application?
• Can I get money for equipment, construction, or alterations and renovations?

New warning on Opportunities for NIAID Applicants and NIAID Participation in NIH ARRA Opportunities : If you list NIAID as the primary Institute for an opportunity we are not participating in, your application may not be reviewed. Based on referral guidelines, CSR will assign it to another institute, which may not accept the assignment.

Updated NIAID Supplements Through the Economic Recovery Act with the following new information:

• We support supplements for all grant types except training grants (T), fellowships (F), and construction grants All people who have career development (K) awards can apply for up to $50,000 in direct costs a year.
• Most ARRA equipment supplements have a limit of $100,000. However, you may be able to request more if you are the only PI who will use the equipment and you fully justify your request.
• See How NIAID's Administrative Supplements Differ From NIH's.

New option to Subscribe to get email when we update the NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section.

New information throughout NIAID Supplements Through the Economic Recovery Act page.

• NIAID's approach for ARRA administrative supplements will differ somewhat from what NIH spelled out in the Guide notices. See the new section:
  • How NIAID Administrative Supplements Differ
• We will continue to add more details there. Therefore, we removed the NIAID Administrative ARRA Supplements page; it now forwards staff to the public page.

Updated How to Conduct a Two-Year Research Project on What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds to reflect that investigators will be renegotiating Specific Aims for the two-year R01.

Updated How NIAID Is Spending the Stimulus Money and Recovery Act Questions and Answers for NIAID Investigators to note that NIAID is not using R56-Bridge awards in FY 2009. We have more information for R56-Bridge Awards in our Financial Management Plan.

Updated What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds to use the term "recipient" when it is unknown who will have some of these responsibilities.

Updated NIAID and the Economic Recovery Act section to note the following:

• NIH has initially spelled out requirements in the Standard Terms and Conditions for ARRA Awards, but more details are coming.
• Though grantees are not required to spend their funds by September 30, 2010, the legislation intends that they will use the funds promptly to stimulate the economy.

Updates on Challenge Topics for NIAID:

• Changed phone number for 04-AI-101 contact, Annette Rothermel, to 301-496-7104.
• 03-AI-101 contact changed to Samuel Perdue, 301-402-5083, sperdue@niaid.nih.gov.

Updated What You Need to Do if You Get Stimulus Funds to state that, when you submit your detailed budget, you do not need a budget justification unless the budget has changed.

Updated Administrative Supplements to Grants and Cooperative Agreements SOP with information on supplements using ARRA funds.

We plan to add more information on NIAID Supplements Through the Economic Recovery Act soon.

New information box on Opportunities for NIAID Applicants to describe how you may be able to use an existing application.

Renamed What the Stimulus Means for NIAID Applicants page to Opportunities for NIAID Applicants.

Updates on Challenge Topics for NIAID:

• Revised last sentence of 05-AI-101 -- Accelerated Aging in Treated vs. Untreated HIV/AIDS.
• 05-AI-102 renamed to Comparative-effectiveness of ART.
• 04-AI-102 contact changed to Matthew Fenton, 301-496-8973, fentonm@mail.nih.gov.

Added new information throughout the site:

• Noted that if you received a just-in-time request to send us your information as soon as we request it.
• Noted the application of existing grants policies to grants funded by the stimulus, including streamlined noncompeting award process and the PI salary cap, in addition to the new ARRA requirements.
• Noted the ability of institutes to fund grants for two years using stimulus monies and future years with their appropriated funds. NIAID is awarding some grants using this approach.
• Noted that R56-Bridge funding applies to both the NIAID and NIH programs.
• Noted that grants awarded an R56-Bridge in FY 2008 that will be automatically extended for an additional year will be funded at the same base level as the Bridge award.
• Noted that PIs with grants funded by the stimulus must spend all the monies by September 2011. See March 19 for later change.
• Removed information about submitting detailed budgets for the time being.

Clarified that in addition to some R01 applicants, people who submitted R21 or R03 applications (with overall impact/priority scores up to 179) should submit their just-in-time information as soon as we request it.

Added to Don't Confuse Stimulus Money With Our FY 2009 Budget in the Send Just-in-Time Info Promptly section.

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• administrative supplement
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
• competing application
• domestic
• fiscal year (FY)
• just-in-time
• NIH Guide notice
• payline
• R56-Bridge award
• renewal
• request for applications (RFA)
• resubmission
• Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
• streamlined noncompeting award process
• unobligated balance

See the Glossary for terms.