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NIH Continuing Resolution: Funding levels for FY 2022 may be reduced

Continuing the procedures identified under NOT-OD-21-058 and consistent with NIH practices during the CRs of FYs 2006 - 2021, NIH Institutes and/or Centers may, at their discretion, issue non-competing research grant awards at a level below that indicated on the most recent Notice of Award. Upward adjustments to awarded levels will be considered after FY 2022 appropriations are enacted, but NIH expects institutions to monitor their expenditures carefully during this period. All legislative mandates that were in effect in FY 2021 (see NOT-OD-21-056) remain in effect under this CR, as well as the salary limitation set at Executive Level II of the Federal Pay Scale (see NOT-OD-21-057) and the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award predoctoral and postdoctoral stipend levels and tuition/fees as described in NOT-OD-21-049. 

NIH Clarification and Guidance for Applicants Preparing Applications for the Spring 2022 Due Dates During the COVID-19 Pandemic

NIH extends the guidance provided earlier (NOT-OD-21-180) for applicants preparing applications for the August/October 2022 round, beginning with the January 25, 2022 due date. 

Reviewers will continue to receive instructions to assume that constraints arising from the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., lab occupancy restrictions, declines in patient accrual, etc.) will be resolved during the project period and thus should not affect their scores.

Therefore, NIH grant applications should NOT include contingency or recovery plans for problems resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. However, applicants may address effects due to the pandemic on productivity or other scoreable issues in their Personal Statement in the NIH Biosketch. Reviewers will be instructed to take these pandemic-related circumstances into account when assessing applicants' productivity and other score-driving factors.

Recently Published Funding Opportunities 

Please see the list of the most recently published Notices of Special Interest (NOSIs):

• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): COVID-19 Pandemic Mental Health Research
• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Analyses of CALERIE Datasets and Biospecimens to Elucidate the Biological Effects and the Behavioral and Psychological Aspects of Sustained Caloric Restriction in Humans
• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Infectious Etiology of Alzheimer's Disease
• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Sleep Disorders and Circadian Clock Disruption in Alzheimers Disease and other Dementias of Aging
• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Administrative Supplements for NIDCR Grants to Support Pain-Focused High Priority Research Area
• Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Advancing NEI AGI Research on newly Identified Factors Into Models of Visual System Regeneration