The National Institutes of Health and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality have recently announced two changes that will affect application submission.
First, the agencies will move from PureEdge to Adobe versions of the SF424 (R&R) grant application forms beginning in December 2008, provided a summer pilot proves successful. Second, they will transition from paper to electronic submission through Grants.gov using the SF424 (R&R) for the Research Career Development (K), Individual National Research Service Awards (F), and Institutional National Research Service Awards and Other Training Grants (T, D) programs from paper to electronic submission through Grants.gov using the SF424 (R&R). Each award will transition individually, beginning with the K award on February 12, 2009. Timing of the transition of NIH’s complex, multi-project grant programs has not been set.
Direct questions about transition plans to [email protected].