{"id":3498,"date":"2021-08-02T09:09:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2021-08-02T10:55:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:55:27","slug":"nih-posts-clarifications-to-biosketch-and-other-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/2021\/08\/nih-posts-clarifications-to-biosketch-and-other-support\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH Posts Clarifications to Biosketch and Other Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>NIH provides Additional Clarifications to Biosketch and Other Support Policies<\/h4>\n<p>Although not required until January 2022, more and more applicants and recipients are following our advice and transitioning now to the updated formats and instructions for biosketch and other support documents. As a result, the NIH has received a number of requests for additional clarification to our policies. The NIH has updated and added FAQs, posted clarified instructions, and adjusted our other support sample document in response. All of these improved resources are accessible from our biosketch and other support pages.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a sample of new\/updated FAQs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/faqs#\/other-support-and-foreign-components.htm?anchor=question56205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NIH does not allow electronic signatures on attachments in electronic applications. Will electronic signatures be accepted on Other Support submissions?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/faqs#\/other-support-and-foreign-components.htm?anchor=question56434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Do outside consulting activities have to be reported in Other Support?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/faqs#\/other-support-and-foreign-components.htm?anchor=question56450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Does NIH require disclosure of recently completed support in Other Support?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/faqs#\/biosketches.htm?anchor=question56451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Biosketch instructions state that all positions and scientific appointments must be provided. Does this refer to active positions and appointments, or all positions a researcher has ever held?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Look for the <strong>blue &#8220;updated&#8221;<\/strong> sticker and <strong>yellow &#8220;new&#8221;<\/strong> sticker stickers in our <a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/faqs#\/biosketches.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biosketch FAQs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/faqs#\/other-support-and-foreign-components.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other support FAQs<\/a> for additional clarifications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FYI &#8211; Look for updates to the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.unc.edu\/sponsored-research\/resources\/science-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNC Guidance on Science and Security<\/a> information soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIH provides Additional Clarifications to Biosketch and Other Support Policies Although not required until January 2022, more and more applicants and recipients are following our advice and transitioning now to the updated formats and instructions for biosketch and other support documents. As a result, the NIH has received a number of requests for additional clarification &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/2021\/08\/nih-posts-clarifications-to-biosketch-and-other-support\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NIH Posts Clarifications to Biosketch and Other Support\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":false,"featured_image_medium":false,"featured_image_medium_large":false,"featured_image_large":false,"featured_image_thumbnail":false,"featured_image_alt":false,"category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}