NIH No Longer Requires Advanced Permission for Conference Grant Applications
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
About this opportunity
This Notice alerts the NIH extramural research community of an important update to the application process for Conference Grants (R13) and Conference Cooperative Agreements (U13). NIH supports scientific meetings, conferences, and workshops (hereinafter “conferences”) that are relevant to its scientific mission and to public health under the R13 and U13 activity codes. NIH’s support of conferences is contingent on the interest and priorities of the individual Institute,Center, or Office (ICO). Applicants are strongly encouraged to refer to the NIH Director’s Statement of Priorities, entitled “Advancing NIH’s Mission Through a Unified Strategy.” As part of ongoing efforts to reduce administrative burden on the applicant community, NIH will remove the prior approval requirement for submissio...