All About Grants Tutorials

Experienced Investigators

NIH Grant Cycle -- Full Resource

Get advice on applications and grants.

• NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal. Advice and how-to and advice with an R01 focus.

NIH Grant Cycle -- Shortcut Resources

• Checklists for the NIH Grant Cycle -- check that you're nailing everything; read more where needed.
• NIH Grant Cycle: Advice Index -- read the Cycle's advice only.
• NIH Grant Cycle: Table of Contents -- skim to choose a section of interest.

More Tutorials in Topic Areas

• Grants Policy and Management Training for Foreign Investigators
• New Investigator Guide to NIH Funding
• Advice on Research Training and Career Awards
• Advice Presentations for SBIR and STTR
• Guidance for Preparing a Multiproject Research Application
• How to Write an Application Involving Research Animals
• NIAID Human Subjects Application and Grant Handbook and Checklists for Human Subjects
• Translated Tutorials

Contacts

Contact Staff for Help. Talk to a program officer about whether your area of science fits NIAID's mission and learn about our opportunities.

Learn When to Contact an NIAID Program Officer.

NIAID Grant Portals

For more information, go to our other Grants portals by stage, audience, and science area.

New Investigators

Resources by Career Stage

Find resources depending on your career stage.

• Early-Stage and New Investigators portal -- if you're ready for independent support.
  • New Investigator Guide to NIH Funding -- if you're not familiar with NIH support. Learn about qualifying as a new PI.
    • Checklist for New Investigators
• Training and Career portal -- for earlier stages.
  • Advice on Research Training and Career Awards
• NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal -- read more at left.

Application Tools

Sample Applications, Abstracts, and More

• Samples and Examples -- for parts of the grant application from NIAID and NIH.

Timelines

• R01 Planning to Award Timeline for Initial Application and Resubmission
• R01 Planning to Award Timeline by Review Cycle
• R01 Application Considerations for Each Review Cycle

Other Links

• NIAID Funding Opportunity Planning and the Budget Cycle
• Laws and Regulations That Affect NIH's Programs
• CSR's NIH Peer Review Revealed -- See a video of a mock study section.
• NIH's Peer Review Policies and Practices
• Quick Facts on Applications

Contacts

Contact Staff for Help. Talk to a program officer about whether your area of science fits NIAID's mission and learn about our opportunities.

Learn When to Contact an NIAID Program Officer.

NIAID Grant Portals

For more information, go to our other Grants portals by stage, audience, and science areas.

Look It Up

• animals in research
• career development award (K)
• Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
• early-stage investigator
• human subjects
• new investigator
• peer review
• principal investigator (PI)
• program officer
• R01
• resubmission
• Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR, R43, R44)
• Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR, R41, R42)
• study section
• summary statement
• training grant (T)

See the Glossary for more terms.