{"id":4623,"date":"2025-12-05T17:24:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:28:36","slug":"2-new-nih-notices-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/2025\/12\/2-new-nih-notices-released\/","title":{"rendered":"2 New NIH Notices Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>New NIH Notices Released<\/h4>\n<p>On December 2 and 3, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued two important notices that impact application submission and disclosure requirements. This communication serves as an informational update.<\/p>\n<h4>NOT-OD-26-019: Updated Application Policies \u2013 NIH Administrative Burden Reduction \u2013 <em>Removal of Requirements for Letters of Intent and Unsolicited <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Applications Requesting $500,000 or More in Direct Costs<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Key Points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Effective immediately, NIH will no longer request or accept Letters of Intent (LOIs) for any Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>NIH has also removed the prior approval requirement for applications requesting $500,000 or more in direct costs in any one budget period<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Applicants are no longer required to contact an Institute or Center before submission or include a cover letter documenting IC agreement.<\/li>\n<li>All active NOFOs with these requirements are superseded; NIH will update the Application Guide and Grants Policy Statement accordingly.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-OD-26-019.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full notice<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>NOT-OD-26-018: NIH\u2019s Implementation of Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support<\/h4>\n<p>Key Points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Effective January 25, 2026, NIH will require use of Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support, plus a new NIH Biographical Sketch Supplement.<\/li>\n<li>Forms must be generated and certified in SciENcv; each senior\/key person must personally certify accuracy and confirm they are not a party to a Malign Foreign Talent Recruitment Program (MFTRP).<\/li>\n<li>Institutions must maintain internal controls and provide training on disclosure policies.<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect form use will trigger eRA warnings starting January 25, 2026; these become submission-blocking errors on February 6, 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Applies to all applications, JIT, RPPR, and Prior Approval submissions on or after January 25, 2026.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-OD-26-018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full notice<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New NIH Notices Released On December 2 and 3, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued two important notices that impact application submission and disclosure requirements. This communication serves as an informational update. NOT-OD-26-019: Updated Application Policies \u2013 NIH Administrative Burden Reduction \u2013 Removal of Requirements for Letters of Intent and Unsolicited Applications Requesting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/2025\/12\/2-new-nih-notices-released\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 2 New NIH Notices Released\">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-4623","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\/4623","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=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4627,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions\/4627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}